Community Development Certificates
Inclusive development has gained its due attention globally and every country has committed itself to achieve the socially inclusive growth parameters. To achieve them and sustain the economic growth it is imperative that social sector agenda is given its due priority to bridge the socio-economic and digital divide. To shift the paradigm from a compliance culture, encouraging entrepreneurship in social sector through an incentivizing framework of tradable economic instrument will be the game changer and this is where Community Development Certificate (CDC) will play a pivotal role.
Grow Forest Certificate
This paper seeks to explore a possible solution in this direction and to the development of the degraded forest lands for environmental sustainability and sustainable infrastructural growth of the countries across the world. A non-commercial initiative with an involvement of private sector organizations in this exercise to reforest and maintain degraded forest land patches as part of Corporate Social Responsibility initiative. These organizations will in turn be rewarded by awarding a ‘Grow Forest Certificate (GFC). GFCs will be awarded by state nodal agencies after scrutinizing the redevelopment of the forest lands over the period of three years, based on the survival of those plants.