RAYCHEM - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy

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1 RAYCHEM - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy At Raychem, we firmly believe Corporate Social Responsibility is not just an added function to business, but it should be ingrained in core business operations. It is therefore part of our ethos and one of our core business tenets. As a responsible business corporation, we take pride in building sustainable and effective CSR initiatives which are vital towards fulfilling critical societal need gaps in the communities we operate in. However, we believe that beyond the local communities we also have a larger responsibility towards making a difference within our industry and also society at large and therefore we are undertaking some initiatives which are aligned with the Millennium Goals (MDGs)* established by the United Nations. Raychem also encourages Employee Volunteering so that our employees can give back to the communities they live in and become responsible citizens by volunteering their time & skills to drive our social initiatives. RPG Foundation, an independent trust, operating for companies of the RPG group, leads and executes Raychem s social outreach programs. CSR Vision Our Vision is to drive holistic empowerment of our community around the local vicinity of our plants and the industry we operate in, across all geographies. This will maximize the societal impact in the critical need areas. We also believe that we must drive sustainable initiatives that benefit the planet at large by implementing and supporting initiatives that align with Millennium Goals. We will support initiatives for Vision/Eye Care, Empowerment of Women by enabling them to have alternate livelihoods, provision of employable skills to youth, Primary education, Health and Local Community, amongst others. Raychem s CSR Philosophy and Approach We will try to create maximum social impact by direct implementation and hands on execution for the social initiatives through the RPG Foundation. However, in some areas we will partner/collaborate with external individuals, institutions & NGOs as well as local Government bodies in a PPP model for the purposes of accessing expertise/enhancing resources and for support in project implementation. We will strive towards the MDGs established by the UN, and play our part as a responsible Indian & Global corporation. *The Millennium Goals (MDGs) are eight critical social goals for developing countries like India. They are guidelines for all the social intiatives by UNDP (United Nations Program) and Govt of India. India s progress on the MDGs is evaluated annually by UNDP. For more info :

2 Raychem s CSR initiatives will operate within three tiers in our ecosystem, which we believe encircles our philosophy & values: Tier 1 of the local vicinity around our plants in the areas of Primary Education, Skill development and Community via Health, Nutrition & Water based interventions - Pehlay Akshar program is a large scale program for Primary Education with special focus on practical English speaking & reading skills to enhance employability. Pehlay Akshar operates at all our locations across India. - Jeevan is an integrated community project and will focus on improving all round quality of life in the areas of clean drinking water, overall health and nutrition based interventions amongst others. These have been identified as critical local need gaps from the baseline study done by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), CSR Hub. Tier 2 Empowering women and youth through skills training, employment opportunities & alternate livelihood options - Saksham, our skill development program will focus on alternate livelihoods training for women & technical education for under privileged youth to provide employability skills to candidates from Municipal Schools of Himachal Pradesh via a Public-Private-ship (PPP) model. Tier 3 Our flagship Netranjali project is a Vision/ Eye care initiative. India has the world s largest blind population (18Mn) and nearly 80% of the cases are preventable with suitable & timely eye care interventions. This project will focus on eye care interventions ranging from children to senior citizens thus reducing the incidence of preventable blindness.

3 Raychem s CSR Strategy Multi-tiered within Raychem s Ecosystem CSR Projects & Goals We aim to ensure the sustainable development of the company and society at large through social interventions which will in turn help Raychem earn social trust through its business operations and through activities that will transcend our business and make broader social contributions. These projects were also developed on the basis of an extensive baseline Needs Assessment Study done by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) CSR Hub amongst our various stakeholders at different locations. Netranjali- Vision/Eye Care Goals Promote eye health care and reduce vision and eye health related disparities through various community interventions from promotive and preventive to finally curative. Improve the eye health and lives of people with vision loss by preventing complications & disabilities by early stage detection & intervention. Eye care interventions across life stages from children to senior citizens.

4 Empowerment of women with vocational skills & youth via provision of technical skills -Within Our Industry - Saksham Program Skill Saksham for Youth Enabling unemployed youth, school dropouts, etc. to be economically self-sustained via a well designed model of Public-Private-ship backed by an honest attempt to empower less privileged youth from Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh. The project focuses on provision of employability skills to candidates from Municipal Schools of Himachal Pradesh.This unique effort is made in collaboration with Centre for Excellence in Organization (CEO), Bangalore and the Labour and Employment Department of Government of Himachal Pradesh. Saksham for Women Providing multi skill training to women leading to their economic empowerment via alternate livelihoods eg. Tailoring, nursing training etc. Projects in the Local Vicinity around Plant locations Raychem will undertake CSR activities which will meet the need gaps of the community in and around its three plants at Vasai, Chakan and Halol with specific programs. Program Goals: Primary Education Goals -Universal Societal Impact- The Pehlay Akshar Program Primary education is a critical social need in India and is aligned with the UN MDGs. The Pehlay Akshar program seeks to address this social need gap. This education project works for children studying in the Municipal and public schools wherein the intervention begins from the IV standard and continues till the VIII standard. Pehlay Akshar s goal is to impart English fluency, both spoken and reading, to children thereby enabling them towards future employability. The practical spoken English skills will gear them towards a plethora of careers (retail/call centres/service industry etc) and the practical reading skills will enable them to participate in the online Web & Mobile revolution so they can fit into the global economies of the future by being able to read the e-content in English. JEEVAN- Community Carrying out water based intervention in the rural communities thereby reducing water borne diseases & improvement of overall health Reduce level of malnutrition amongst young children in the age group of 1 year to 3 years. Health awareness drives amongst women, adolescents & children.

5 ships RPG Foundation is a non-profit organization registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860, to function as a centralized body for implementing CSR activities of the various group companies of RPG Enterprises. RPG Foundation will work as an implementation partner for Raychem and will create cross-company/ngos synergies to encourage exchange of CSR ideas, best practices and learning. The partnerships will be with Government Organizations (GOs), Non-Government organizations (NGOs), CSRs of various companies and Private entities etc. This will help the Company to reach out to a large and varied section of the society. Corporate Social Responsibility Eye Care, Skills training & Employability, Education and Community EYE CARE Intervention in Eye Care Promotive Eye Care Preventive Eye Care Curative Eye Care EMPLOYABILITY Training Youth in technical training and Women in Vocational Skills Technical skills training to youth for employability options Technical Education to youth through scholarship project Skill training/income generation activities like tailoring, etc. for Women EDUCATION English Proficiency Functional English (spoken & reading) to children from IV to IX std Teacher s Training Mentorship Program for Children COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT of Water Projects and intervention in malnutrition Reduction of Malnutrition amongst children (1 to 3 years of age) Rain Water Harvesting projects in Schools Well Digging Projects in community

6 Monitoring mechanism and responsibilities The CSR team at RPG Foundation will be responsible for implementation and execution of CSR projects. The CSR executives at Plant locations will be responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the projects at Plant level. All projects will be reviewed once every 6 months against targets and wherever necessary midcourse actions will be initiated. Appendix 1: Linkage between Raychem Corporate Social Responsibility Focus Areas and Schedule VII Appendix 2: CSR Programs and Initiatives with Modalities Appendix 3: Key Outcome Indicators Appendix 4: Geography Appendix 5: CSR Committee

7 Appendix 1 Linkage between Raychem Corporate Social Responsibility Focus Areas and Schedule VII Major Activities Schedule VII Raychem's CSR Focus Areas Schedule VII, Section 135 of Companies Act 2013 (Final notification, 27th February 2014) Vision/Eye Care (Netranjali) Employability - Skill (Saksham) Primary Education (Pehlay Akshar) Community - Water and Malnutrition (Jeevan) (i) Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, promoting preventive health care and sanitation and making available safe drinking water. (ii)promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly and the differently-abled and livelihood enhancement projects. (iii)promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women and orphans, setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups. (iv)ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal welfare, agro forestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and water. (v) Protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of buildings and sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion and development of traditional arts and handicrafts. (vi)measures for the benefit of armed forces veterans, war widows and their dependents. (vii) Training to promote rural sports, nationally recognized sports, paralympic sports and Olympic sports. (viii) Contribution to the Prime Minister s National Relief Fund or any other fund set up by the central government for socioeconomic development and relief and welfare of the scheduled castes, the scheduled tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women. (ix) Contribution to technology incubators within academic institutes. (x) Rural development projects

8 Appendix 2 CSR Programs and Initiatives The CSR Programs and Projects for FY along with modalities and schedule are given below: Focus Areas Eye Care NETRANJALI Employability - Skill SAKSHAM Primary Education PEHLAY AKSHAR Community JEEVAN Sr. No CSR Projects/ Activities Awareness Camps (preventive and promotive) on Eye Care and Vision related disorders Curative interventions for Eye care problems Giving scholarships for technical education to underprivileged youth Skill training/income generation activities like Nursing training, tailoring, etc. to Women Functional English (spoken & reading) to children from IV to IX std. Ref. Sr. No. of Schedule VII (i) (i) (ii) (ii) (ii) Modality RPGF & RPGF and RPG Volunteers Schedule Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Teachers Training (ii) RPGF Mentorship Program for children 8 Health awareness camps for women Intervention towards reduction of Malnutrition amongst children (1 to 3 9 years of age) (ii) (i) (i) RPGF and RPGF & RPGF & RWH projects in Schools (ii), (x) RPGF Well Digging Project in community (i), (x) RPGF

9 Appendix 3 Key Outcome Indicators Focus Areas Flagship Activities Outcome Indicators Output Eye Care NETRANJALI Employability - Skill SAKSHAM Eye Care Intervention Vocational Training & Alternate livelihood for women Scholarship support for technical education for youth % reduction in Eye related problems and diseases % women and youth enrolled for skill training % increase in trained youth in technical schools No. of people covered under Eye care intervention like camps, etc. No. of beneficiaries covered No. of students and no. of schools being reached out to Primary Education PEHLAY AKSHAR Community JEEVAN Functional English Teachers Training Mentorship Health Outreach Provision of Safe and clean Water % Students taught functional English % increase in no. of teachers for training % increase in volunteers for the Mentorhip % reduction in malnutrition & women health related problems % increase in access to water (drinking and other purposes) Children are fluent in Spoken and reading English (by interactive and play method) No. of teachers trained for Functional English No. of volunteers and beneficiaries benefitting out of Mentorship Project No. of beneficiaries covered under Malnutrition project and Awareness camps No. of RWH structures built No. of beneficiaries benefit from the water project

10 Appendix 4 GEOGRAPHY Presently Raychem Plants are located in four locations, namely Chitkara University (Himachal Pradesh),Vasai (Maharashtra), Chakan (Maharashtra) and Halol (Gujarat). The focus of CSR initiatives is in the surrounding communities/localities within 7-10 kms range of the Plants. Following are the cities we want to implement the CSR activities in: Sr. No. State Location 1 Himachal Pradesh Chitkara University (Solan District) 2 Maharashtra Vasai 3 Maharashtra Chakan (Pune) 4 Gujarat Halol Appendix 5: CSR Committee Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee: In accordance with Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder, CSR Committee, a sub-committee of the Board of Directors has been constituted comprising Mr. Jan Cilliax, Mr. Ajit Singh Chouhan and Mr. R. D. Chandak. The CSR Committee shall act in accordance with the following terms of reference: 1. Formulate and recommend a Corporate Social Responsibility Policy to the Board. 2. Recommend the amount of expenditure to be incurred on the activities. 3. Institute a transparent monitoring mechanism for implementation of the CSR projects or programs or activities undertaken by the company which would form a part of CSR policy. 4. Monitor CSR Policy and interventions periodically.