Chennai-based organization offers tool kit to promote diversity in the workplace

The city-based non-profit organization International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (PCVC) on Friday introduced an audio-visual learning tool kit to promote diversity and inclusion in workspaces at a virtual event.

It is part of the PCVC initiative वर्क Workspace Diversity and Inclusion: From Legality to Cultural Change ‘as well as the US Consulate, Hyderabad. The kit will help organizations implement practices and policies to create safe and healthy workplaces. It can be used as an effective training tool to facilitate dialogue on diversity and inclusion.

Representatives of 55 companies from various sectors attended the event and were invited to sign up for free pilot workshops.

According to Rashmi Singh, Executive Director-Programs of PCVC, it is necessary to support organizational changes in the increasing workforce participation of women and gender minority employees in the formal sector. “We believe it is important for women and queuing communities to have safe, respectable homes, but equally important that workplaces also have culture and policies that embrace them,” Ms. Singh said in a press release According, said in the program.

David Moyer, Public Affairs Officer, US Consulate Hyderabad, and Uma Rao, Vice President, Human Resources, Ashok Leyland emphasized on building a community that broadens its vision and eliminates violence and discrimination at workplaces.