The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020 came into force on the 29th of September 2020, in India. The act brings sweeping changes to how not for profit organizations in India can receive funds from foreign funders, moving forward. The law will also impact how foreign foundations and corporations make donations to Indian NGOs. The new amendments to the act will force the foreign funders to make structural changes in funding as well as strategic re-haul in their funding polices, if they wish to continue funding poverty alleviation programs at the grassroots level in India. The road ahead will involve navigating a treacherous legal course both for the foreign funders and their Indian non-profit counterparts.
Join AVPN in a deep dive of untangling the new Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020 where its member Nishith Desai Associates from India will analyse the amendments to the act and explain the implications for the foreign funding entities and their Indian recipient.
Learn from MacArthur Foundation and Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation about the challenges that they will now navigate and what this means for the other funder organizations looking at funding programs in India.
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Dr. Milind Antani (Moderator) Lead-Pharma, Healthcare, Medical Device, and Digital Healthcare Practice, Nishith Desai Associates Surgeon turned lawyer, Dr. Milind Antani leads the Pharma, Healthcare, Medical Device and Digital Healthcare practice at research-based international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates. |
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Rahul Rishi Lead- Social Sector Practice, and Impact Investing, Nishith Desai Associates Rahul rishi leads social sector practice and impact investing at Nishith Desai Associates. He is a graduate in law from Gujarat National Law University with Masters in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has been an avid speaker on various domestic and international forums on philanthropy, impact investing, blended finance and social businesses. He has extensively advised domestic and foreign non-profits on cross-border philanthropies, program-related investments, foreign contribution laws, impact funding and has worked closely on developing USD 1b IEOF (India Education Outcomes Fund). He has also worked closely with various impact investing bodies on policy changes and has authored newspaper articles and published academic articles on electoral funding, whistleblowers’ source protection, constitutional law, corporate social responsibility, cross-border and domestic philanthropy and the like. |
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Moutushi Sengupta Country Director-India, MacArthur Foundation Moutushi Sengupta is Country Director for the MacArthur Foundation’s India Office, which provides grantmaking to civil society organizations on Climate Change, Population and Reproductive Health and Girls’ Secondary Education. |
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Pramathesh Ambasta CEO, Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) Pramathesh has 30 years of experience in the areas of rural development, livelihoods, entitlement of marginalized communities and watershed management. Besides program management, building civil society partnership, capacity building, training and research are his forte. He is one of the founder members of Samaj Pragati Sahayog, one of India’s largest grassroots initiatives for water and livelihoods security in Central India. Pramathesh closely worked with Government bodies and Consortiums. He was the Convener of the National Consortium of CSOs on MGNREGA working with 72 partners across 76 districts of 12 states of India. Several articles written or co-authored by him have been published. He took over as CEO of BRLF in January 2017. |