Highlights issues concerning CSR activities, combined with sound methodologies, scientific data and field observations

Demonstrates how social auditing and social impact assessment help to analyze the impact that particular individuals or groups may have on the functioning of companies in an area

Introduces various tools and techniques that exist in the field of CSR and discusses their appropriate usefulness for adoption in different socio-economic settings

Discusses various CSR projects with regard to public-private partnership models, sustainable development, and skill development

S. Siva Raju is Deputy Director, Hyderabad Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and Professor at the Centre for Population, Health and Development, School of Development Studies, TISS, Mumbai. His broad fields of professional interest are corporate social responsibility, resettlement and rehabilitation, ageing, health and development. His major publications include: Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility (co-ed., Springer, 2014), Regional Development & Family Planning (Daya Publishing House, 1987), Social Inclusion and Women Health: Perspectives and Issues (co-ed., Indian Association for Social Science and Health, 2013), Ageing, Health and Development (co-ed., B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2013), Gerontological Social Work in India: Some Issues and Perspectives (co-ed., B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2000), Health Status of the Urban Elderly: A Medico-Social Study (B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2002), Adolescents Reproductive Health Perspectives (co-ed., B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2006), Voice of the Elderly in India (B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2011), Primary Health Centres in Rural Health (co-ed., B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2013), Networking of Organizations Working for Care of Older Persons in Mumbai: Issues and Implications (Family Welfare Agency, Mumbai/ B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2002) and a study on elderly Parsis in India, funded by PARZOR Foundation. He has prepared a Status Report on the older poor in India, which was presented at the Second World Assembly on Ageing by the United Nations. He is an Honorary Director of the International Longevity Centre, Pune and co-ordinator of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Initiative on, 'Building Knowledge Base on Population Ageing in India'.