1. OPENING MEETING

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About CII
• Strengthen industry role in economic development
• Reinforce industry’s commitment to society
• Quality, environment, H&S, inclusive growth, affirmative
action
• Policy intervention, awareness, advisory services
• Theme for 2015-2016: Build India – Invest in
Development, A Shared Responsibility

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About CESD
• Bring transformation in Indian industry towards
sustainable, equitable and inclusive growth
• Works on:
• Policy Advocacy
• Knowledge Creation
• Knowledge dissemination
• Capacity Building
• Recognition

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83
• 4 Sustainable Business of the Decade
• 24 Corporate Excellence
• 58 Domain Excellence
Applications
Received
Qualified for Desk Assessment
Applicants 2015

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Why do companies apply?
Recognition
Learning
• Better goodwill and brand building
• Motivated employees
• Educated customers
• Feedback report based on third-party
assessment
• Insights on key strengths and
opportunities to excel for relevant
sustainability aspects

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Awards categories
Sustainable business
of the decade
[Exclusive to 2015]
Corporate excellence
Domain excellence
1. Sustainable supply chain
2. Corporate social responsibility
3. Environment management
*Mutually exclusive categories; application across categories is not allowed; multiple sub-categories allowed

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Eligibility criteria for applicants
Operating in India, for five years or more
A large, medium, small, micro-sized
enterprise
Independent unit or division
Manufacturing or service sectors

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A typical Awards process
Application
Desk
Assessment
On-site
assessment
Closure
• Application of Intent
• Submission of questionnaire
• Preliminary screening by Awards Team
• Consensus and submission
• Jury clears applicants for site visits
• Revised consensus and submission
• Jury decides winners
• Assessors recognition survey
• Announcement of winners – companies &
assessors
• Feedback report
15th December,
New Delhi

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Desk Assessment Process
100 Assessors
25 Teams with diverse applications
Conflict of interest avoided
150 hrs of individual assessment
Team spends approx 450 hrs in desk
assessment
Site-visit

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Sustainability excellence attributes weights

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Epitomes of sustainable business
27 winners in 2014
150 winners in last nine
years
More than 500 applicants
in last nine years

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Purpose of site-visit
• Not an “audit”
• Don’t need to see everything the applicant does
• Respond to specific points raised by assessors
• Emphasis on process
Clarify Validate
Better
understand
good
practices

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