Experts at National CSR Summit deliberate on Gender Mainstreaming through entrepreneurship in digital age

New Delhi, 15th November: Shikhar, in association with UN Global Compact Network India and Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University, recently organized 9th National CSR Summit on the theme – “Gender Equal Ecosystem in Entrepreneurship and Skill Development: Role of Corporate Social Responsibility”.

Despite all the efforts by the Government and the Civil Society, only 14 percent of Indian entrepreneurs are women which presents both opportunities and challenges before all the stakeholders. Lower level of participation of women in entrepreneurial ventures has hampered national development expansion and widened institutional lag in women empowerment initiatives, which among issues, has also kept women from being able to access technology, skills, finance and abilities to learn.

The National CSR Summit presented a platform to experts from Corporates and Civil Society organizations to deliberate on key issues, opportunities, challenges and paths forward in developing solutions in direction of gender inclusivity, women empowerment, capacity building and training , skill development, technology and large policy issues on how women could be mainstreamed into national development though their entrepreneurship in digital age within the National framework of corporate social responsibility.

Maj. Gen. Dr. G.K Thapiyal, Vice Chancellor, Subharti University joined the summit as a Chief Guest. He was accompanied by Shabnam Siddiqui, ED, UN GCNI; Parvez Alam, IAAS, Director, Airforce (Audit), Ministry of Defence; Upendra Giri, CEO & Founder, Uplfyt Global; Asad Umar, Senior Program Officer – Health & Wash, Agha Khan Foundation.

The Summit hosted two technical sessions. “One on Challenges of Inclusion in Rural and Urban India: Solutions and Pathways” and another on “Impact of Digital Dependability in Entrepreneurship and Skill Development”.

Towards the end, Shikhar honoured some well deserved people and organizations who have done pioneering work in Skill Development and CSR.

Robin Hibu, President, Helping Hands and Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Chairman, India Expo Mart Limited were conferred with ‘Shikhar Samman’, whereas Neharika Vohra, Vice Chancellor, Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University and Shaila Khan were conferred with ‘Stree Shakti Samman’ and ‘Women Achiever Award’ respectively.

Capgemini and Lighthouse Communities Foundation bagged the National CSR award.

The summit was organized under the able leadership of Pooran Pandey, Summit Director; Nadeem Akhtar, Founder – Shikhar; Aditya Ghildyal, Co-Director of the Summit, R.K Suri, Pro VC – Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University.

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