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About Social Compact
Social Compact is a multistakeholder movement that brings together corporates, worker organizations and experts into a co-solutioning relationship to ensure greater dignity and industry-employed informal workers in India. Social Compact advocates the idea of resetting business aspiration to build back better, with the ideology that ‘responsible business is successful business’. |
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Our Approach
The movement offers a human-centric framework, home grown with the experience of worker organizations to help industries reflect on the maturity of their worker practices. The journey from reflection to remedial action is all co-created by industry and worker organizations, to ensure meaningful and sustainable inclusion of worker wellbeing in industry systems.
The movement offers a human-centric framework, home grown with the experience of worker organizations to help industries reflect on the maturity of their worker practices. The journey from reflection to remedial action is all co-created by industry and worker organizations, to ensure meaningful and sustainable inclusion of worker wellbeing in industry systems.
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6 human-centric outcomes, 35+ standards Enabling industry to integrate worker well being within business as usual |
Social Compact Network of Services
Industry backed Worker Facilitation Centres
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Run by Aajeevika Bureau and Centre for Social Justice, alongwith industry partners
Across industrial hubs of Pune, Ahmedabad and Baroda Key offerings include-
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Institutional Support
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Capacity building of contractors and suppliers, including template for Suppliers' Code of Conduct
Dasra, Aajeevika Bureau, Centre for Social Justice Communication channels / grievance redressal systems Good Business Lab Framework for Adopting Living Wages (in progress) Dasra |
Occupational Health
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ESIC, Healthcare and Compensation related awareness, registrations & trainings
Aajeevika Bureau, Centre for Social Justice, Safe in India Medical & health camps Aajeevika Bureau, Centre for Social Justice Fire Safety Training/ first-aid training Aajeevika Bureau |
Gender
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POSH - Awareness, gender sensitivity, trainings, Constitution of ICC for POSH
Centre for Social Justice, Martha Farrell Foundation Creche facilities at worksite Aajeevika Bureau |
Future of Work
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Life skills training programs
Aajeevika Bureau Modules for upskilling in manufacturing & construction sector Aajeevika Bureau |
Read our blog
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The confines of invisibility for single women in India - Reflections from the field The instinctive bias that prioritizes conventional families in India has given fuel to single women’s invisibility in today’s society and the workforce. As they fall through the cracks of government framework for entitlements and business infrastructure, where is the designated space held for single women to claim their livelihoods, as individuals and not mere dependents? Read Here > |
Blog | eShram and eNirman Schemes helping unorganised workers? India’s social security system is fractured, and there are different attempts, tokenistic or otherwise, being taken from time to time. One such recent attempt (post covid response) was the introduction of informal workers’ social security portals like eShram (pan India) and eNirman (building and other construction workers, Gujarat). Read Here > |
Blog | Schemes are just plastic cards if they don't translate into benefits Ashish Bhai is a middle-aged construction worker employed in the Ranip site of Bakeri Constructions in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. When asked about the different concerns and uncertainties revolving around mass registrations like eShram & eNirman, his responses prick our privilege bubble and make us reflect on how we approach social security. Read Here > |
Join the movement!
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Assess worker practices
through reflection tool |
Adopt solutions
to improve worker wellbeing |
Create integrated dashboards
to analyse progress |
Ecosystem approach
to minimize risk |
On ground impact through a Worker Facilitation Centre
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Community of practice
for peer learning |
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