The advocacy programmes for CSR undertaken by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), a body established under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, brought out the need for having trained CSR professionals who can help corporates to implement their CSR projects. IICA has accordingly launched a programme - ‘IICA Certificate Programme (ICP) in CSR’ as a capacity building programme for CSR professionals. It is a nine month programme, delivered primarily through an online Learning Management System (LMS). The first batch of the programme was launched on 13th October 2014.

 This was stated by Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Corporate Affairs in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

CSR professional capacity building launched to equip trained personnel for corporate social responsibility implementation nationwide. The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs launched the IICA Certificate Programme (ICP) in CSR as a capacity building professional certification delivered primarily via an online Learning Management System to prepare trained CSR professionals to assist corporates in planning and executing CSR projects, addressing an identified shortage of skilled personnel for CSR implementation.