OUR SERVICES
I. Gender IMPACT INvesting, ESG & WOMEN’S / TRANSGENDER ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
We offer a range of services to financial institutions, investors, private equity and venture capital funds, accelerators and incubators, corporates, and trade bodies to promote gender impact investing and women’s economic empowerment (including transgender economic empowerment), such as:
Economic Empowerment: Advising on and creating specific initiatives for promoting women’s economic empowerment/ transgender economic empowerment, and financial inclusion including addressing the prevalent systemic challenges in the same.
Entrepreneurship: Advising on and curating a wide range of initiatives, programmes and trainings, to promote women entrepreneurship/transgender entrepreneurship, including working with a variety of stakeholders – to create specific interventions across thrust areas.
Gender Lens In Investing/ ESG Compliance: Advising conglomerates, corporates, private equity, venture capital funds, investors, and investing entities to devise and incorporate gender (and gender diversity) based diligence, conditionalities and milestones (and related monitoring) through the investment cycle and legal documentation.
Gender Impact Investing: Advising private equity and venture capital funds, accelerators and incubators and trade bodies on adopting the gender lens in their programmes and processes, and curating specific goals, processes, and initiatives to enable gender impact investing.
II. GENDER EQUALITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION (GESI) in PROJECTS, PROGRAMMES AND POLICIES
We offer a range of services to public and private sector companies, international and domestic financial institutions, government bodies, and policy makers, such as:
Strategic GESI Advisory: Providing comprehensive gender consultancy advice on (i) projects (such as infrastructure or development projects) of public or private sector companies including those aligned with obligations stipulated by international and domestic financial institutions, and (ii) programmes and policies of public sector entities, government bodies and policy makers; in each case to integrate multi thematic gender based initiatives therein, to promote gender equality and social inclusion.
Impact Assessment: Evaluating projects programmes and initiatives to assess gender equality, impact and integration from a multidimensional perspective.
Surveys: Assisting in imbibing the gender lens into surveys conducted by range of public / private / government organisations.
III. GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN PHILANTHROPY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
We offer a range of services to philanthropic organisations, corporates investing in corporate social responsibility and NGOs (irrespective of the focus area of such philanthropic / CSR activities), such as :
Gender Lens: Advising on how to adopt the gender lens as a focal point of policy and program making, and through different stages (such as problem identification, planning, project making, budgeting, monitoring, implementing, and evaluating).
Project Curation: Customizing existing and new programmes and initiatives to bring in the gender lens and to make women and members of the LGBT community – direct and targeted beneficiaries.
Impact Assessment: Evaluating programmes and initiatives to assess gender impact from a multidimensional perspective.
Training & Workshops: (i) To promote gender awareness, sensitization and diversity and inclusion; and (ii) Training on gender mainstreaming and adopting the gender lens.
Goal Setting: Curating gender goals based on the specific industry / sector.
IV. DiVERSITY, EquiTY & INCLUSION (DEI) AT THE WORKPLACE ACROSS ALL SEGEMENTS, WITH A SPECIALISATION IN GENDER/ LGBTQ DiVERSITY, EquiTY & INCLUSION
We offer a range of services, to companies, trade associations, private equity and venture capital funds, educational institutions, all forms of business entities, and leading non profits, to promote equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and anti discrimination such as the following.
While gender and LGBTQ themes are a key focus area for us, our work cuts across themes and segments of diversity such as religion, faith, ethnicity, race, age, abilities, caste, language, customs, socio- economic backgrounds, gender, sexual orientation and more.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy- Developing end to end DEI strategies and road maps and guidance on implementation and continued monitoring.
Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion - Policies & Initiatives: Preparing and advising on an array of customised initiatives/ policies (across sectors and functional verticals) including DEI charters and policies, Anti discrimination and equal opportunity policies, leave policies, flexible work arrangements, hiring, relaunch and retention programmes, mentoring and leadership programmes, tackling gender career gaps and pay gaps; charters for employee resource groups (ERGs), entire spectrum of gender neutral policies and progressive policies for inclusion across themes including transgender and LGBTQ inclusion at the workplace, including as mandated by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019.
Diversity & Inclusion Consulting & Capacity Building: Preparing end to end solutions for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion for all segments of diversity and with a specialisation in aspects related to women, the LGBTQ community, and Transgender persons. This includes bespoke advice on best practices, progressive policies, processes and initiatives, and comprehensive diversity, equity and inclusion consulting- keeping in mind the specifics of the company/ organisation, such as sector and range of business activities, and growth stage.
Diversity & Inclusion Assessments: Curated programs such as gender diversity and inclusion assessments, LGBTQ diversity and inclusion assessments; entailing a deep dive into various bespoke (quantitative and qualitative) parameters devised by us & workplace benefits analysis; and recommending specific and customized solutions based on the findings of the aforesaid.
Training & Workshops: A wide range of customized training and workshops both virtual (online) and in person (offline) across themes.
These can be further customized respectively for the demography of the participants such as senior management, HR / D&I/ Legal teams, and for all employee bands and cadres.
These include:
Reimagining diversity, equity and inclusion at the workplace across verticals;
Addressing unconscious bias- across a range of themes;
Gender Inclusion – key aspects and best practices across a range of themes;
LGBTQ inclusion – key aspects and best practices- across a range of themes;
Transgender inclusion – key aspects and best practices across a range of themes including requirements mandated under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019;
Age Inclusion - key aspects and best practices- across a range of themes;
Caste Inclusion - key aspects and best practices- across a range of themes;
Creating and leveraging allies at the workplace;
Leadership development and mentoring for high potential women across a range of topics and focus areas related to professional development;
Language as a tool for Inclusion;
Inclusive Hiring - pitfalls and good practices
Multiculturalism;
Creating Respectful Workplaces; and
Fostering a culture of no discrimination and no harassment at the workplace.
Client Interface: In certain customer facing sectors such as hospitality, healthcare, aviation. entertainment (including cinema business), education, real estate, advertising and retail - promoting gender sensitization and inclusion (with a special focus on LGBTQ persons) through customised policies, processes and training, so as to enhance overall customer experience.
Vendor Integration/ Supplier Diversity: Advising on and creating initiatives for extending learnings, sensitization, and best practices to vendors / suppliers on all themes of diversity with a special focus on gender diversity, LGBT Inclusion, and anti sexual harassment measures. Preparing appropriate provisions related to compliance and conditionalities in vendor contracts.
V. ANTI SEXUAL HARASSMENT / PoSH ADVISORY /Code of Conduct / CHILD SAFEGUARDING
We offer a range of services to companies, private equity and venture capital funds, educational institutions, startups, all forms of business entities, non profits, and educational institutions to prevent, prohibit and redress sexual harassment at the workplace, such as :
PoSH Policies: Preparing and advising on progressive internal polices for prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment in accordance with the Indian anti sexual harassment laws (PoSH Act) and emerging best practices.
PoSH Employee Sensitisation/Training: Customised PoSH trainings and workshops, for all employee cadres (including students) and managers, on sensitization about sexual harassment, and measures for prevention and redressal of the same as per the PoSH Act and applicable rules, and the internal policy applicable to them. We have capability of conducting these in multiple vernacular Indian languages (in addition to English and Hindi).
PoSH IC Training : Trainings and capacity building workshops for members of the Internal Committee and HR teams on the key areas under the PoSH Act and evolving jurisprudence, the entire inquiry process and best practices (legal as well as soft skills) for conducting a fair, transparent, confidential and thorough inquiry into a complaint of sexual harassment at the workplace as per the PoSH Act.
External Member: Acting as external member (of the IC set up under the PoSH Act) in select companies.
Code of Conduct: Preparing and advising on comprehensive code of conduct in accordance with applicable Indian laws and emerging best practices .
Code of Conduct Trainings: Customised Conduct of Conduct trainings and workshops, for all employee cadres and managers.. We have capability of conducting these in multiple vernacular Indian languages (in addition to English and Hindi).
Child Safeguarding/ Protection Policies: Preparing and advising on progressive internal polices for child protection and safeguarding including prevention, prohibition and redressal of child sexual abuse at the workplace.
Child Safeguarding/ Protection Training: Customised trainings and workshops, for all employee cadres on best practices for child safeguarding and child protection at the workplace including measures for prevention and redressal of child sexual abuse.We have capability of conducting these in multiple vernacular Indian languages (in addition to English and Hindi)
VI. ADVOCACY oN RELATED LAWS AND POLICY
We offer a range of advocacy and advisory services to government entities, law and policy making bodies, civil society participants, non profit organizations and NGO’s, enterprises and individuals, on a wide array of themes including labour and employment laws, entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, entire gamut of gender laws, LGB/transgender laws, and anti sexual harassment laws / PoSH; such as:
Legal Reform: Addressing lacunae in law and policy including by seeking specific amendments and / or judicial intervention.
Affirmative Action: Advising on law and policy to enable affirmative action, eliminating regressive social practices and norms, and promoting equality, equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.
Legal Awareness: Devising focused initiatives and programmes to disseminate information about legal rights; and promoting a rights based gender discourse.
Training & Workshops: (i) To promote gender sensitization and diversity and inclusion; (ii) Creating awareness for mainstreaming and inclusion of LGBTQ persons; (iii) To train diversity and inclusion consultants, gender consultants, LGBT subject matter consultants, on best practices across a range of theme (iv) To train administrative and judicial officers.
Research & Data: Undertaking and curating focused research programs to identify, evaluate and address gender gaps; advise on collecting and analysis of information and data using the gender lens.
* Terms of engagement and detailed experience statement for the aforesaid services are available on request.