22nd
June 2009; Cambodian Delegation from Cooperation Committee for Cambodia
(CCC) visits VANI
A three member
delegation from Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC), which was
in India on an exposure visit, was hosted by VANI on 22nd June 2009.
CCC is the pre-eminent membership organization of the non-government
sector in Cambodia. Since 1991 it has taken a lead role in representing
the voice of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to government and
donors communities and effectively representing the professional interests
of NGOs across diverse sectors. The purpose of this exposure visit
was to provide opportunity for key project staff and management to
learn and share practical experiences on mechanisms, challenges and
methodologies to promote NGO Good Governance in Cambodia, to learn
how Good Governance and accountability principles are being practiced
in India and to know about potential mechanisms for NGOs to get engaged
and influence in decision-making processes regarding social and development
issues
25th
May 2009: Meeting of Task Group for drafting State Policy on Voluntary
Sector in Uttarakhand
Last
year on 22nd and 23rd May 2008, VANI organized a consultation on
State Voluntary Sector Policy in Utarakhand. The meeting was organized
in association with DISHA. The task group formed after the consultation
met to discuss the methodology and identified the key issues of
the state in order to draft the State Voluntary Sector Policy. In
order to access the progress of the draft and to further discuss
the suggestions of the task group members, VANI
in association with SAMBANDH and UPVAN is organizing a meeting
in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on 25th May 2009. The experiences and suggestions
of recent meeting held in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on 27th April 2009
will also be shared in this meeting and some new ideas and suggestions
will be compiled and submitted to Government of Uttarakhand.
19th
May 2009: Another meeting following the one held on 15th May 2009
on deferment of amendments in definition of “Charitable Purposes”
under
section 2(15) in the Finance Act
2008.
VANI led delegation
with CEO and experts Mr. Joselyn Martin, Mr. Sanjay Patra and Mr.
Manoj Fogla for a subsequent meet following the meeting on 15th
May. On 19th May 2009 the delegation met with Mr. Ashutosh Dikshit,
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Government of India to submit
inputs on deferment of amendments in definition of “Charitable Purposes”
under section 2(15) in the Finance Act 2008.Read
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15th
May 2009: Meeting with Ministry of Finance on deferment of amendments
in definition of “Charitable Purposes” under
section 2(15) in the Finance Act
2008.
VANI
led delegation with CEO comprising of technical experts Mr. Joselyn
Martin, Mr. Sudhir Verma, Mr. Samir Minocha met with Mr. Pradip
Mehrotra, Director (TPL-I), Ministry of Finance, Government of India
on 15th May 2009 to present inputs on deferment of amendments in
definition of “Charitable Purposes”under section 2(15) in the Finance
Act 2008.Interventions were useful and VANI was invited again on
19th May for a larger audience. Inputs for this meeting were also
received from Mr. Sanjay Patra and Mr. Manoj Fogla and included
series of meetings within the sector from November 2008. Read
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8th
May 2009: Meeting of the informal think tank set up under the aegis
of United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Program
During
the last meeting of the informal think tank set up under the aegis
of United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Program which was held on 20th February
at Times Foundation, it was decided to schedule another meeting in
May. On 8th May 2009 the meeting was held in office of Partners in
Change to discuss International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2009, cross sector
partnerships training, civil society forums for achieving MDGs in
Gurgaon and to form the task force committee for IVD.Read
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1st
May 2009: Third meeting on the Task Force on, ‘Compilation of Satellite
Accounts in respect of Non-Profit Institutions in India
Third
meeting on the Task Force on, ‘Compilation of Satellite Accounts
in Respect of Non-Profit Institutions in India’ was held on
1st May 2009 in Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics
and Programme Implementation. The meeting was organized under the
Chairmanship of Mr. Ramesh Kohili, ADG (NAD)Read
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27th
April 2009: Meeting of Task Group on draft State Policy on Voluntary
Sector held in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
The Task Group
set up for framing the State Voluntary Sector Policy in UP, meet again
on 27th April 2009. The meeting was held in UPVAN Secretariat Lucknow.
This group consisted of 15 members out of which only 8 could participated.
The meeting began with the presentation of the tentative draft of
state policy on voluntary sector in UP, which was prepared by the
UPVAN Secretariat. After several discussions, it was decided to redraft
the state policy for voluntary sector. The key members who participated
in this meeting were Mr. Paresh Tiwari, Mr. Ashok Singh, Mr. Puran
Barthwal, Mr. Diwakar Bhatt and Dr. Neelam Singh.
17th
& 18th March, 2009: Regional Workshop on Good Governance in Civil
Society Organisations in Mysore, Karnataka
As the last of
the series of the workshops on Good Governance for the year 2008-2009,
VANI on 17th and 18th March, oragnised the workshop in Mysore with
the support of MYRADA Kaveri Pradeshika Samsthe (MYKAPS), which is
a society promoted by MYRADA, a reputed development organization working
in Southern States namely; Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
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