Social Audit Network
Social Accounting and Audit for the Community Sector
SAN Auditors
SAN maintains a register of social auditors across the world from which organisations seeking an auditor can contact directly using the details provided.
For quality assurance purposes, UK Auditors are required to make annual returns to SAN regarding their relevant training and chairing activities. Organisations are asked to complete a Questionnaire for SAN following each verification process and any issues are followed up by a member of the Board.
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Auditors who are inactive or fail to update their training within a certain period of time are removed from the list. In this way SAN ensures that the person verifying a set of social accounts remains credible to external stakeholders.
How to become a SAN auditor
To become a SAN approved auditor, able to chair verification panel meetings and sign off the draft accounts candidates must first complete our social auditor workshop.
The trainee auditor will then be asked to attend at least two verification panel meetings and to shadow a panel chair making draft notes for their mentor to consider. They are then expected to Chair a panel supervised by an appointed mentor who will approve the final notes.
The mentor will recommend approval by SAN of the trainee auditor when they have reached the standard required.
For further details of how to become a SAN approved social auditor, please contact the SAN office info@socialauditnetwork.org.uk
Register of social auditors:
UK Based Auditors
Tel: 07803 897 135
Email: dave.furze@hotmail.com
Dave has 35 years’ experience in social entrepreneurial youth & community work in development and empowerment, neighbourhood regeneration, supporting social enterprise and social impact measurement. He has worked in a wide variety of situations and contexts ranging across urban, rural, affluent, deprived and faith communities. The key focus of his work has always been to gain people-centred engagement, participation, and involvement to maximise community empowerment and the development of wellbeing and social capital. He has worked across the statutory, voluntary, community and faith sectors. Spending ten years working in local government, Wycombe District Council, eventually as Community Development Team Leader, developing community planning, coproduction service design, older people’s action groups, arts-based empowerment projects, crime, and antisocial behaviour interventions. In close collaboration with Bucks New University was involved in research on small area statistics, the impact of community development interventions on crime and anti-social behaviour and developed a foundation degree in community development. Before this, he spent 7 years working in inner-city Manchester with young people at risk; pioneering a relational youth work model of practice in Harpurhey, North Manchester, one of the most deprived neighbourhood in the country and Moss Side and Old Trafford. Since 2008 he has run his own Social Enterprise consultancy, Footprints and is a Trustee of Community Transform CIO (charity no: 1186368), working in High Wycombe, Aylesbury and across Buckinghamshire. In Aylesbury working in partnership with Aylesbury Garden Town as Community Development & Liaison on Community Projects. He first became interested in measuring social value, social impact and social accounting and audit in 2010, while working in East Berkshire and Slough assisting local public service commissioners and third sector groups to manage the transition from grant-aid to commissioning contracts and adapting to the changing landscape of civil society. Here he realised that for there to be a more level playing field when competing for contracts the third sector need to invest more effort in demonstrating their social value, which is at times undervalued and often goes unheard. He is chair of trustee of Churches’ Community Work Alliance, CCWA, a past chair of Beyond Difference the interfaith network for The Chilterns. He is a board member of Social Audit Network and he gained accreditation as a SAN social auditor in 2014. Originally, he trained as a materials engineer, has a PhD in Tribology and worked as a research scientist in Nanotechnology at Brunel University for 6 years.
Tel: 0151 236 6601
E-mail: helenmillne@thewo.org.uk
Helen provides programme and operations management for The Women's Organisation, taking on responsibility for: Financial management; Operational development; Human resources development; Health and Safety and Quality and Impact Measurement.
She has worked for over eleven years within the social economy on Merseyside and has extensive experience of organisational development within the public and third sector. Whilst working in the Community Based Economic Development Team in Liverpool City Council, Helen facilitated the development of the Social Enterprise Network ( www.senweb.org) and designed and implemented the Social Accounting training programme in Merseyside. She is a registered Social Accountant through Social Audit Network and is experienced in acting as verification panel chair and representing the network at conferences.
Previously, as North West Regional Training Officer for the National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux she successfully devised comprehensive training programmes for management committees, paid staff and volunteers for the 110 bureaux in the region.
In a voluntary capacity she is a director of a community based learning organisation. Helen completed her Masters in Business Administration in 2007, awarded with distinction.
Email: lisamcmullan@thewo.org.uk
Lisa’s work focuses on building entrepreneurial capacity by providing advice, training, project development and evaluation support for entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial organisations and those working to support them. ​
As Director for Development & Consultancy at The Women’s Organisation Lisa works on a portfolio of projects that support would-be entrepreneurs, small business owners and social enterprise leaders.​
Lisa’s areas of expertise include:
Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Education: Designing & facilitating professional development for enterprise educators working in education
Enterprise Development: Small business and social enterprise planning and development
Women’s Enterprise: Adviser and promoter of women’s entrepreneurship
Evaluation: Applying social accounting and audit principles to design and undertake a holistic approach to evaluation activities to include social, economic and environmental impact
European & International Projects: Project development, management and evaluation
Lisa has been practising SAN’s social accounting and audit methodology for over 20 years, within The Women’s Organisation as well as supporting other organisations with training and consultancy services to undertake their own social accounting and audit processes. Lisa is an experienced Social Auditor and provides verification services for W+ Standard, a women’s empowerment standard being applied to development projects across the world.
Tel: 07790 779 578
Email: lizallen@theconnectives.com
8 Montrose Crescent Levenshulme Manchester M19 2GF
Liz Allen has a comprehensive track record of creating and developing social enterprises. She has worked with enterprises to deliver public services, grow community assets and contribute to the sustainable economic regeneration of marginalised communities.
A Partner in The Connectives, Liz is known for transforming creative ideas into realistic deliverable solutions which grow company value and contribute to social changes.
Her reputation for creating social enterprise activity that delivers change in communities, for managing such activity and for delivering highly effective social impact measurement has earned her respect from the public and voluntary sector.
As deputy CEO of an established social enterprise Liz managed:
the growth in organisational turnover from £70,000 to £2m
the creation and support of a highly effective staff team
the design, construction and delivery of the East Liverpool Enterprise and Training Centre
the creation and implementation of a community based Healthy Living Centre addressing locally identified health inequalities
the design and delivery of successful supported employment programmes
the creation of a range of social enterprises working specifically with adults with learning disabilities
These initiatives tackled social exclusion with practical solutions; they improved the employability of individuals, increased the economic activity of deprived communities across Liverpool and resulted in effective community based economic regeneration.
Liz is able to confidently stand alongside our clients enabling them to sense make, building the confidence and capacity of individuals, community groups, and businesses, leveraging wisdom, tools and insights from work with others.
Liz has a deep and broad experience of community based economic regeneration with a local, regional and national perspective. She has worked at the coal face as well as leading and establishing enterprises and systems which enable others to deliver and bring about change.
Liz has completed a first degree in Business and Leisure Management and a masters degree in Social Enterprise. She is a qualified and experienced social accountant and auditor with excellent knowledge and proven practise in the field of social impact reporting. Liz is a strong proponent of corporate social responsibility encouraging clients to find effective ways to tell the story of their organisations and measure their social impact.
Non-Exec Directorships & Memberships include:
A board member of the Social Audit Network
Fellowship of The School for Social Entrepreneurs
Currently Liz, working with other Directors in the Connectives, is developing:
The Connectives Social Accounts – showing the impact of our pro bono work and the social impact of our work with for profit businesses
Social share incentive programmes – rewarding those who contribute positively to the commercial success of the Connectives at the same time making an auditable social impact which delivers against our mission
Client/resident/user/employee share programmes and innovations in social accounting
Creating new models of governance, leadership and user directed service development and delivery
Strengthening the interdependency and partnership between workers in relevant industries and the 'moral owners' – the persons served
Rewarding independence, interdependence and abundance mentality – so that people do well by doing good – whether they are employees or service users
The Connectives are social entrepreneurs – investing time, money and intellectual capital to develop partnerships and projects which deliver break through sustainable solutions with social, commercial and environmental impact.
Tel: 07900 194785
Sue Osborne is a warm and empathetic independent consultant with more than 30 years’ experience spanning the public, private and voluntary sectors. She has a passion for people driving positive social and environmental change.
Sue’s core areas of expertise are:
· Impact and evaluation. Sue has evaluated and written impact reports for a variety of clients including mental health charities, further education colleges, environmental projects, national charities, regional and local social enterprises.
· Coaching, facilitation and mentoring. Sue has delivered leadership, coach and action learning facilitator training across the sectors. She coaches and mentors leaders in the NHS, Police, Local Authorities and VCSE sector.
· Strategic thinking. As an Executive Director, Sue has created, developed and delivered strategic plans for the North York Moors National Park Trust; Yorkshire and North East School for Social Entrepreneurs; Shared Interest.
· Relationship building. Sue has connected, engaged and built networks with more than 500 community businesses, environmental entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and social sector leaders across Yorkshire and the North East and beyond. She has also travelled extensively across Europe, Africa and Latin America to meet fair trade organisations, assessing their trade finance requirements.
Sue’s interest in social accounting and social audit started more than 15 years ago, when her team at Shared Interest, successfully pioneered the first set of social accounts for the organisation. Sue is an experienced Social Auditor, chairing a range of social audit panels. Sue is also trained to provide verification services for W+ Standard, a women’s empowerment standard being applied to development projects across the world.
Overseas Auditors
Tel: +91 9886 833 665
Email: aruna.maniam@gmail.com
No. 96, Liberty Acres, Golden Homes Properties, Attibele, Bangalore 562107
Summary of Experience in Social Accounting and Audit
I helped start up the Bangalore chapter of the Centre for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM), a school for social entrepreneurs and the training partner of SAN,UK, in 2007, and currently serve as its Director. This role has given me the opportunity to interact with a wide network of social organisations and social change agents and enriched my own ideas for triggering lasting change.
CSIM has also been instrumental in my training as a social auditor, enabling me to attend a number of panels in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. I was mentored by Mr Patrick Boase and Mr Alan Kay of Social Audit Network, UK, and chaired the Panel at Sevalaya, a well-known educational institution in the outskirts of Chennai and, most recently, The Community Restaurant at Mumbai. I have also facilitated the writing of social accounts for Mother Earth, Rang De and EnAble India, social enterprises led by Ashoka Fellows and internationally recognized social entrepreneurs.
I hold Masters Degrees in English and in Education. I acquired my M.Ed degree from the Central Institute of Education (CIE), University of Delhi and have taught for over 20 years in India and abroad. Following a three-year stint as a Content Manager at an e-learning company in Hyderabad, I acquired a Postgraduate Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship and NGO Management from CSIM. I have travelled widely across Europe and Africa with my diplomat father and engineer husband, experiences which have underscored my belief that human aspirations are the same everywhere. I feel strongly that everybody should be given the opportunity to realise these aspirations and have drawn on my experience as an educator to set up the Vidyanjali Education Trust, which envisages the use of innovative pedagogical methods to give Indian schoolchildren a solid start in life.
Email: g.lorenz@technet-berlin.de
Dr Madhuri Ravindra Kumar commenced her association with Social Accounting and Audit when she attended the Master Class in Social Accounting and Audit in 2009 in Chennai, conducted by Social Audit Network, UK & Centre for Social Initiative and Management. As part of her assignments in this space, she has chaired the Audit panel for SAFA, a Non for Profit in Hyderabad that works towards socioeconomic empowerment of women through income generation and education. She has written Social Accounts for Manappuram Foundation in Kerala, New Life Charitable Trust, a Non for Profit organization in Chennai that serves senior citizens and children and has facilitated the writing of Social Accounts for Native Medicare Trust, a Non for Profit in Coimbatore that works with vulnerable and abandoned population.
Dr Madhuri engages in all aspects of the Social Accounting and Audit process and has undertaken Social Impact Assessments of projects funded by Corporate Foundations across India. She is also Head of the Coimbatore Chapter of Centre for Social Initiative and Management.
As Consultant Social Researcher with Ph.D degree in Sociology from the University of Mumbai, and about 20 years research background, Dr Madhuri has worked on sectors including Healthcare and Family Welfare, Disaster Assistance and Management, Urban and Tribal Development pan India. She has experience in also conducting large scale studies, having been the State Project Coordinator for the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Round 4 in 2014- 15, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Email: m.schillat@technet-berlin.de
Email: garth@lead.org.nz
Email: gmelles@swin.edu.au
Dr Gavin Melles is Associate Professor of Sustainability and Social Innovation at Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia.
He is an accredited social auditor with SAN India since 2018. He conducts occasional audits when visiting India and contributes to related issues, e.g. workshops, for the Centre for Social Innovation and Management (CSIM), Chennai.
Dr Melles has been featured in recent media in relation to social enterprise in India, e.g. https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/blog/social-enterprise-and-future-prosperity-and-growth-in-india/ and http://www.socialentrepreneurs.in/interviews/the-issues-are-not-absent-in-australia-but-are-different-and-the-attitude-towards-social-enterprises-there-is-growing-acceptance/
Email: info@technet-berlin.de
Email: tripathi.agyeya@san-india.org
Summary of Experience in Social Accounting and Audit
Dr. Agyeya Trippathi is a certified Social Auditor, Qualified Research Professional and Multidisciplinary Consultant in Social Sector. Dr Agyeya has been associated with SAN, India since 2018.
He leads SAN India operations in North and North-East India. He has attended the master class in Social Accounting and Audit conducted by Ms. Latha Suresh, Ms Marie Banu and Ms Archana Pillai of SAN, India in 2018. He has audited the social accounts of Single Teacher School (STS), Chennai and has been instrumental in handling various other impact assessment, social impact reporting and evaluation projects for projects focused upon inclusive finance, heath care, agriculture, youth employment and waste management.
General Background
Dr. Agyeya holds a Ph.D. in Business Management, MBA in Marketing & Finance and M.Sc. in Electronics & Communication. He is a National Resource Person for Financial Inclusion under Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and has been selected as Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission under Niti Aayog. He is also associated with XIM Bhubaneswar, DMI Patna and ISAB Greater Noida as guest faculty for various PG courses in the area of policy analysis, rural financial system, sustainable finance & development, agribusiness management and entrepreneurship. He is also associated with Skydive Consulting for various International Projects.
He has more than 15 years of experience working in small and medium-size development projects funded by SDC, UNCDF, UNDP, IFC and World Bank in India, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. A large part of his professional engagement around 10 years was with Basix, a Social Enterprise Group. His experience and competency revolves around Inclusive Finance, Agriculture value chain, Enterprise Development, and Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Agyeya is passionate and competent to analyse how business can play a more direct role in creating sustainable livelihoods for stakeholders beyond the shareholders. His competency lies in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Impact Assessment, Training and Capacity Building, Primary and Secondary Research and Knowledge Management.
Email: k_luthar@hotmail.com
Karuna has worked in the area of enhancing organisational excellence for not-for-profits as well as corporates for over 20 years. Her career as a senior executive in a global bank gave her the opportunity to develop and use these skills in customer, operations, sales as well as financial control functions. This experience, along with her training as a chartered accountant, support her contribution towards organisations in an area she enjoys and believes in strongly. She focusses on assessing internal and external factors that impact organisations and identifying resolution options to enhance performance.
Karuna is on the Board of an international aid organisation, Operation Eyesight Universal (India chapter). Based in UAE, she currently works on projects for building customised software and information systems to increase productivity with EACIIT Vyasa Inc, a young company based in Singapore.
Email: surabi@vsnl.com
Email: lindsay@csbec.org.nz
Tel: 0405 273 932
Email: marcelle@sun.big.net.au
22 Palm Street, Maleny Queensland Australia 4552
Summary of Experience in Social Accounting and Audit
I began driving Maleny Credit Union's social accounting process in 1999 and have mentored a number of enterprises, including working with Mission Australia Queensland for over five years. Along with mentoring I have been a SAN approved Social Auditor since 2002.
Background
With an early grounding in the social sciences I have pursued concerns for organisational social responsibility, accountability and sustainability.
My background is in the management of projects concerned with health and well-being followed by a change of direction in 1994 when I undertook a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies. On completion of the degree I began driving Maleny Credit Union's social accounting process.
In 2002, I visited the United Kingdom to research social accounting trends. A number of working relationships were strengthened as a result of this trip and especially connections to Social Audit Network UK.
In 2002 I established the independent social accounting and audit consultancy, 'Accounting for Life'.
Experience
Delivering all aspects of the social accounting cycle from initial steps through to the Audit Panel
Mentoring and advising organisations in the application of the social accounting cycle
Monitoring and evaluating a range of projects using qualitative and quantitative evaluation techniques
Clients
Maleny Credit Union, Mission Australia Queensland, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Streetwize Publications, Bundaberg Skills Centre, Beyond Empathy, Noosa Biosphere Social Committee, Parramatta City Council, Brisbane City Council, Global Institute for Learning and Development.
Marie Banu holds significant leadership roles in the social sector. She serves as a Social Auditor at SAN UK and SAN India and facilitates the exchange of information and experience among practitioners of social accounting and audit within the social economy and voluntary sectors. As a member of the Institute of Social Auditors of India and a recipient of Social Auditor certification from the National Institute of Securities Market (NISM), she exemplifies her dedication to the field. She has also obtained accreditation as an SROI (Social Return on Investment) and Social Value Trainer from Social Value International.
Marie has conducted social audits for various organizations, including Friends of Coconut Tree (Coconut Development Board) and Manappuram Foundation in Kerala, ICAI UAE (Dubai), SOHAM in Kolkata, CONCERN (a de-addiction home) in Chennai, and Vidya in Bengaluru. She has written social accounts for Cognizant Outreach and facilitated the same for Stella Maris College, Equitas Development Initiatives Trust, and Asirvad Microfinance Limited. Furthermore, she has conducted Social Impact Assessments for over 45 CSR projects in India. Her expertise is further utilized as a resource person for the Master Class in Social Accounting & Audit and Social Impact Practitioner Training conducted by SAN India in both India and the UAE.
Throughout her career, Marie has worked with renowned organizations such as DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency), OXFAM International; OXFAM India, ActionAid India, among others. From 1999 to 2005, she led fundraising efforts for OXFAM India and managed international and national media relations for OXFAM International's South Asia Tsunami response program, in collaboration with various OXFAM affiliates worldwide.
Currently, Marie holds the position of full-time Director at the Centre for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM) in Chennai where she plays a pivotal role in driving social initiatives and management practices. She also serves as a member of the Global CSR & Philanthropy Committee of the Della Leaders Club the world's first business platform.
With a Master's degree in Business Administration and Human Resource Management, along with a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, Marie possesses a solid academic foundation. Her expertise extends to multiple domains, and she has authored several books and research publications. Additionally, she excels as a trainer in areas such as Social Accounting & Audit, Social Impact Assessment, Communication & Fundraising, and Social Entrepreneurship.
Marie's outstanding contributions to society have earned her prestigious recognition, including the REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship 2014-15 and the Karmaveer Chakra Award. The latter is a global civilian honour presented by the international confederation of NGOs (iCONGO) in partnership with the United Nations.
Email: larche@xtra.nz
Email: mrinalini.shastry@hotmail.com
Email: n.mistri@san-india.org
Summary of Experience in Social Accounting and Audit
Nazneen became interested in social accounting and audit in 2012 while attending the Social Entrepreneurship Outlook Program (SEOP) conducted by the Center for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM). She wrote the Social Accounts for Jude Felix Hockey Academy (JFHA), a non-profit organization that teaches hockey and life skills to underprivileged children. She was the Social Auditor for Range De, a not for profit organization that leverages internet and technology to overcome poverty by providing access to low cost capital to underserved communities. She provides social audit facilitation, social audit consulting and social audit services to multiple non-profits and social enterprises. She is on the Governing Council of CSIM, Bangalore and is Faculty for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Social Auditing Skills
Social Accounting and Audit: All aspects of the social accounting cycle as a social accounting practitioner and social auditor.
Consultancy and Facilitation: Mentoring and advice to organizations carrying out social accounting and social audit
Impact Assessments: Assessment of the impact of social programs
General Background
Nazneen has over three decades of experience in Information Technology consulting and services. She was a Director with the Business Engineering Group at DBOI Global Services, Deutsche Bank Group, Bangalore, India. She was on the Diversity Council and lead the Diversity pillar for Persons with Disabilities at all DBOI Service Centers in India. She represented the Group at the NASSCOM Diversity and Inclusivity Regional Council, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Disability Forum and the CII Tools and Accessibility Forum. Prior to joining the Deutsche Bank Group, she was Business Development Executive (Director Level) at CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), based in Santa Clara, California, USA. She was in the US for 14 years in IT consulting and has set up and managed I.T. Offshore Development Centers for US based Fortune 500 clients.
Profile to India Inclusion Summit
As a Director, Business Engineering Group at DBOI Global Services, Deutsche Bank Group, Bangalore, I was on the Diversity Council and lead the Diversity pillar for Persons with Disabilities at all DBOI Service Centers in India. I worked with NGO's to place ~50 PwD's, hearing impaired, vision impaired, physically challenged, in various mainstream roles at Deutsche Bank Group. represented the Group at the NASSCOM Diversity and Inclusivity Regional Council, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Disability Forum and the CII Tools and Accessibility Forum. I moved from Corporate to the Social Sector in July 2014 and am a Certified Social Auditor with Social Audit Network (SAN) India, a chapter of Social Audit Network, UK. I provide social audit facilitation, social audit consulting, social impact assessment services and social audit services to multiple non-profits and social enterprises."
Director, Outreach at Centre For Social Markets
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Cambridge, United Kingdom
I joined CSM as Director after three decades spent doing leading edge development work across three continents. I have spent much of my professional career at Oxfam, where I have acquired a reputation for my pioneering work on campaigns such as Make Trade Fair, the Climate Change Hearings, HIV/ AIDS etc. An accomplished communicator and storyteller, I take complex issues and popularize them for grassroots constituencies using a blend of traditional advocacy and new approaches. I bring grassroots experience from regions as diverse as East Asia, Southern Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and India. I am skilled in building multi-racial, cross-cultural teams and motivating highly diverse communities. With a background in development studies and agricultural science, I also bring expertise in anti-poverty programmes, refugee rehabilitation, sustainable livelihoods, agricultural finance; disaster preparedness; participatory development; environmental assessment and gender. At CSM, I lead the work on social enterprise, conducting urban research in this new field with a view to understanding its impacts on poverty and social transformation. I have also been behind CSM’s work on sustainable coffee, developing partnerships with growers’ groups such as the Karnataka Growers Federation. In December 2009, I embarked on a Walk for Climate Justice from Oxford, UK, to Copenhagen, Denmark, to raise attention to the issues of climate change and poverty at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen. In 2011, I repeated this effort in a Walk for Climate Justice in the southern Indian state of Karnataka to raise attention to the plight of small producers such as coffee growers in an era of climate change. The Walk has been supported by our partners, the Karnataka Growers Federation (KGF). I led the landmark ecology and economy study on coffee that was launched at the COP-11 Bio Diversity Global conference
Email: ravikularaman@gmail.com
Development sector career began with the ‘Total Literacy Campaign’ undertaken in Puducherry [1987-1991]. I was managing 100 member volunteers team and handling central liaison coordinating activities of all the four geographical locations.
My professional learning spans over 25 years covering both Not-for-Profit and For-Profit sectors.
Specific areas of expertise...
Institution Building with a focus on social inclusion and sustainability.
Several years of Experience in Program Designing, Proposal Writing, Capacity Building, Training, Evaluation and Documentation.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Concept – Design - Execution. Assisting corporate that are willing to demonstrate responsible business behaviour.
Specific areas of competence...
Land based Livelihoods needs institutional arrangements- to create the necessary support systems that are needed for farming activity to survive and thrive. Facilitating and capacity building of Farmer Producer Groups/Organisations in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Social Accounting and Auditing: SAA is a framework developed by Social Audit Network, UK. This tool helps responsible organisations to Prove and Improve what they do.
Organisational Experience
Since April 2014: Consulting / Facilitation in Corporate Social Responsibility and Farmer Producer Organisation.
2007 to 2014: handled CSR for Suzlon Foundation as Regional CSR Head [Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry].
2007 to 2007: established and managed Livelihood Advancement Centre for CARE INDIA as Project Officer.
2003 to 2006: established and ran Pondicherry Fair Trade as Chief Executive Officer.
1997 to 2003: served in Pondicherry Science Forum handling Microfinance and Livelihoods as Core Faculty.
Education
LLM [Specialisation in Labour Laws and Industrial Relations] in 1991.
BL [Five Years Integrated Laws Course] from in 1989.
Trained as Master Trainer-Motivator in Entrepreneurship promotion by EDII, Ahmedabad in 1997.
Undergone Master Class Training on Social Accounting and Auditing by SAN, UK in March 2008.
Overseas Visit
Toured England on invitation by Southampton City Fair Trade Council [UK] to be the guest in Fair Trade Fortnight celebrations. Spent two weeks in Stockholm, Sweden by Swedish Institute to explore CSR partnering between Indo – Swedish business house.
Email: usharavi@san-india.org
Tel: +91 9880 276 483
Bangalore, India
Summary of Experience in Social Accounting and Audit
Usha has been involved in social accounting and audit since 2012, when she joined the Centre for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM), Bangalore as Joint Director. She has facilitated the writing of social accounts of Industree Crafts Foundation (a non-profit organization engaged in skill-building and empowerment of rural artisans in India), Industree Crafts Private Ltd (a for-profit social enterprise focused on improving artisanal livelihoods) and Rang De (a non-profit organization working to alleviate poverty by providing affordable credit to underserved communities). She chaired the social audit panel of Jude Felix Hockey Academy, a non-profit organization that teaches hockey and life skills to under-privileged children. She is currently involved in facilitating the Social Accounting process for organizations empowering persons with disability and is writing the social accounts for an NGO providing shelter and education to vulnerable, destitute children.
Social Auditing Skills
Social Accounting and Audit: Delivering all aspects of the social accounting cycle as a social accounting practitioner and independent auditor. This includes helping organizations develop a customized framework for calculation of Social Return on Investment (SROI).
Consultancy and Facilitation: Mentoring and advice to organizations carrying out social accounting and social audit
Impact Assessments: Assessment of the impact of social programs
General Background
Usha has a management degree from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, with specialization in Finance. She has over two decades of professional experience as a business analyst, writer and editor. She is an alumnus of CSIM’s Social Entrepreneurship Outlook Program (SEOP). As Joint Director of CSIM Bangalore, she was involved in executing the capacity building, awareness building and research centre programs.
She strongly believes in spreading social awareness and in using her skills for change. She has undertaken diverse projects for leading non-profits working with persons with disability, on a voluntary basis, for over a decade.
Email: vatsala@csimhyd.com
Email: jangsocialeconomy@gmail.com