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The quarterly newsletter from Livelihoods MANTHAN published by XIMB
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livelihoods. learning. sharing.
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November 2014
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on LIVEwireThis Month
With the advent of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM),
stakeholders from academic institutions, livelihoods promoting
organizations, state livelihoods missions, and others have attempted to
strengthen existing collaborations and create new partnerships. One
potential area where these stakeholders can help substantially is by
sharing information on courses, training programs and other educational
initiatives towards creating livelihoods professionals. Following the
National Workshop on Livelihoods Education in March 2013, XIMB started
compiling livelihood education programs which includes diplomas,
certificate courses, training programs, post graduate programs with
various duration and focus areas.
Thanks to an enthusiastic response from several people, XIMB has
presently compiled a draft compendium of livelihoods course curriculum
as a handy reference for livelihoods promoters, academics and livelihood
missions. This handbook can help in designing new programs and also
strengthen collaboration between livelihoods promoters. This compendium
will add value to academics for enhancing the efficacy of post graduate
courses and training programs, by accessing information on what the best
practitioners have to offer in livelihoods education.
The current handbook contains a list of post graduate programs, course
curriculum and training programs, collated from submissions received in
multiple forums including the Livelihood Learning eGroup and the Work
and Employment & Microfinance Communities of UN Solution Exchange
India.
This current version of the handbook is only a draft compilation. It is a
collaborative effort with contributions from several key players in the
livelihoods ecosystem. Improving and updating the handbook is an
ongoing exercise and will build upon feedback and suggestions from
potenitial users.
Based on inputs from readers, the compilation will be updated
continuously and released as an open access digital publication in early
2015.
The handbook of livelihoods education can be accessed here.
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ILRT’s miniexposition of the Resource Bookfor livelihood Promotion
ILRT (Institute of Livelihood Research and Training,
formerly The Livelihood School) recently published the
4th edition of Resource Book for Livelihood Promotion.
The previous three editions have been received well by
institutions engaged in livelihood promotion, policy
makers, academic research and livelihoodspractitioners.
The 4th Edition of the Resource Book for Livelihood
Promotion was released in June 2014. The authors of
the book are Dr. Sankar Datta, Ms. Rama Kandarpa and
Mr. Vijay Mahajan. This edition has evolved from the
previous versions along with new concepts and
frameworks on livelihoods. It describes conceptual as
well as practical approaches to livelihood promotion and
gives an improved understanding of livelihoods through
the lenses of social, cultural and political analysis, with a
new set of instruments and tools to measure the same.
ILRT had organized a miniexposition of Resource Book
for a diverse audience comprising faculty, researchers,
students, representatives of local government and other
development institutions. Over a period of three months
from August to October 2014, the Resource Book has
been reviewed and shared at several insitutions,
including Gujarat Vidyapith, Institute of Rural
Management (Anand), Centre for Development of
Environment and Policy (IIM Kolkata), IIM Shillong,
Centre for Research in Public Policy. GITAM Institute of
Management (GITAM University), Xavier Institute of
Management (Bhubaneswar) and Catalyst Management
Services (Bengaluru).
News updates from the Livelihoods MANTHAN consortium
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Chaitanya signs MoU for elearning withJSLPSChaitanya has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Jharkhand State Livelihood
Promotion Society (JSLPS) on November 11, 2014 for
implementing Chaitanya’s elearning course for self
help group (SHG) federation managers. Chaitanya has
been invited to contextualize the elearning modules
for the regional context in the backdrop of NRLM while
delivering it in Hindi. While signing the MoU, Mr.
Paritosh Upadhyay CEO of JSLPS mentioned that this
course would be helpful for developing a community
cadre involved in community development and would
help the staff achieve greater heights not only in
JSLPS but similar development programmes.
As part of the agreement, Chaitanya will pilot the
course initially and then hand over the course
implementation to JSLPS. This MoU marks another
milestone in Chaitanya’s journey of bridging the
practitioneracademic gap in developing and
delivering course modules in collaboration with
academic institutions like TISS Mumbai and
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University.
MDI’s study accepted by JEEViKA fordeveloping a road map
On completion of a study on “Understanding the
model of livelihoods promotion in Bihar: JEEViKA”,
Prof. Avanish Kumar of Management Development
Institute (MDI, Gurgaon), who led the study
presented the findings to the JEEViKA team on 8th
October 2014. The meeting was attended by several
key members of the state mission. The findings of the
study were appreciated by all and initiatives based on
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the recommendations are under consideration. The
summary of the study was shared with the CEO of
JEEViKA and Secretary, Rural Development (Bihar) to
facilitate the development of a road map for enabling
sustainable outcomes of JEEViKA. Based on an intensive
field study in two blocks in four villages and interviews
with JEEViKA professionals at State, District, Block and
Cluster level, the findings of the study are focused on
four critical areas: social inclusion, livelihood inclusion,
financial inclusion, and human resource management.
The findings of MDI’s study will translate into designing
a Management Development Programme for the
leadership of various State Rural Livelihoods Missions
(SRLMs) across the country.
News updates from the Livelihoods MANTHAN consortium
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XIMB's knowledge repository exceeds 400resources
XIMB's online livelihoods knowledge repository was
launched in March 2014 to host training resources for
livelihoods promotion. Ever since, several
stakeholders have contributed resources to this open
database. As a result, the total resources available in
the repository has risen from a little over a 100 in
March to over 400 resources presently.
The most recent additions to the repository come
from prominent research insitutions like Gujarat
Institute of Development Research (GIDR) and Indira
Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR).
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EEvveenntt SSccaannUpcoming livelihoods events across the nation
Livelihoods Asia Summit 2014
ACCESS Development Services announces the
Livelihoods Asia Summit. This pan Asia platform will
facilitate a SouthSouth dialogue and help in
dissemination on poverty reduction and livelihoods
promotion strategies and experiences. The mission of
Livelihoods Asia is to create a regional platform that
presents opportunities for cross learning and sharing of
these unique experiences both successes and failures,
within countries in the region. Livelihoods Asia aims at
building sectoral consensus on critical issues and
challenges faced by the poor, share best practices and
inform and influence policy. The Livelihoods Asia Summit
will present a diverse array of themes that will be
discussed in over 20 sessions on December 1011, 2014
in New Delhi. To know more about the Summit, please
visit the following link:
Livelihoods Asia Summit 2014
Development Dialogue 2015
Over the last seven years, the Development Dialogue
facilitated by Deshpande Foundation has grown in its
size and impact. The eighth Development Dialogue in
2015 will focus on ‘Scaling by Proving’ as a theme.
The theme emphasizes that the path to truly scalable
development impact requires careful planning and
execution in the early proving stages before
momentum can build towards scalable execution.
The 2015 Development Dialogue will showcase
several examples of organizations that have tested
alternatives at early stages, learned from their
successes and mistakes and then moved ahead to
scale their implementation in different dimensions. To
join the Development Dialogue 2015 on February 78,
2015 in Hubli, please register at the following link:
Development Dialogue 2015 Registration
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Increasing women’s participation incommunitybased livelihoods intervention :lessons from JEEViKA
The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (BRLP) or JEEViKA,
focuses on forming womenbased SelfHelp Groups
(SHGs) and the groups are federated at the village level
to form Village Organisations (VOs). The VO receives
investments from the Project and, as an entity; it plays
a vital role in implementing livelihood interventions in
the village. Additionally, the Project has engaged
Resource Persons to provide technical assistance to the
SHG members who are participating in the
interventions.
We interviewed SHG women from more than 600
marginal households (randomly selected) from 24
villages in three districts of Bihar, where the Project was
introduced more than four years ago. Additionally we
interviewed 131 VO leaders and 47 Village Resource
Persons.
Despite successful mobilisation of women from marginal
families in its community structure, not all women were
engaged in livelihood intervention programmes. For
example, one of Project’s most promoted interventions,
System of Rice Intensification (SRI), was adopted by
27% of women only. Many did not adopt due to lack of
adequate land (60%). It raises a question if farm
innovation itself is the right intervention, particularly
when the majority of women are from either landless or
near landless households (more than half of SHG women
were from landless families).
The Project has acknowledged this concern. Thus, it
promotes offfarm and nonfarm interventions. Yet,
despite knowledge and access, less than 10% women
had ever participated in such interventions. The reasons
for not participating varied.
First, cultural barriers and taboos discouraged women to
participate. For example, despite being affordable for
many women, only 8% of women had taken up Poultry
Farming. 43% of women reported they did not want to
share their household space with chickens as it affects
their castebased social status.
Another constraint was lack of time. For example, the
Project has started the Kitchen Garden initiative so
women could grow a variety of vegetables in their own
premises. Only 4% of women had adopted it, mainly
because many perceived the technique would require
extra time and energy, and it did not provide any
immediate income.
At the same time, women perceived they could make
immediate income from enterprisebased intervention.
For example, 52% women reported that they had been
waiting for the agarbattimaking enterprise to start,
however, they had not heard about it from the Project.
We also found that lack of continuous handholding
support influenced many women to discontinue the
service. For example, 48% women that had previously
adopted farm intervention stopped reapplying. Most of
these women were not visited by the Project’s Resource
Persons once they adopted the farm innovation. Data
suggests that a participating woman who is frequently
visited by the Resource Persons is three times more
likely to reapply the technique.
Findings of the IFMR study clearly indicate that
provisions of welldesigned interventions do not
guarantee participation. There are many factors that
come into play that influences women’s decision
cultural beliefs, perceived opportunity cost of the
intervention, and handholding support they receive from
the Project’s stakeholders.
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The full report can be downloaded here.
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NIRD consultation on capacity building forNRLM
The National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD)
organized a National Consultation on Capacity Building
for NRLM at Hyderabad on 2728 October 2014. Several
partners of the Livelihoods MANTHAN consortirum and
other members of the Livelihoods Learning eGroup
were invited to offer their inputs on enhancing the
capacity building needs of SRLMs and also to create the
necessary infrastructure to meet those needs. The
consultation focused on ways to meet the capacity
building needs of the community members, leaders,
institutions at various levels, community cadres,
community trainers, community resource persons and
the staff/professionals working with the community. The
workshop also focused on training modules, learning
methods and course materials.
Third NRLMUNDP Round Table on: LegalFramework for SHGs and Federations
There are more than 7.3 million SHGs in India that are
savings linked. However, the scenario of establishing,
promoting and monitoring SHGs and their federations is
complex as the promoters are of different legal status,
functions and objectives. UNDP along with NRLM
organized the third national level roundtable on October
10, 2014 to discuss this issue of a “Legal Framework for
SHGs and Federations”.
The main points raised and discussed were:
The need for a legal framework for SHGs/Federations
under the NRLM is largely arising from economic (credit)
drivers. In this process, social capital formation of
SHGs/Federation and the fostering of Savings should not
be undermined.
The topdown structure of SHG federations proposed
by NRLM should be revisited. SHGs should be allowed to
federate as administrative and geographical units only if
needed. SHGs should be allowed to develop organically,
based on natural community affiliations and interests
emerging from the bottom up.
There was broad consensus that SHGs be left as
informal bodies. Only at higher levels (say, at the
District level) should registration be required. The lower
levels can be selfregulated through forms of community
auditing.
There is a distinction in the maturity level and
numbers between SHGs/Federations in the southern
states and north/northeast/eastern states.
The focus in the NURM is largely on SHG formation at
this juncture.
Two State Participants (West Bengal and Tamil Nadu)
informed that the state has been responsive to
progressive amendments in the existing State
Cooperative Acts. It was agreed that this should be tried
in all states where appropriate Acts do not exist.
In some states, several federations face problems with
registration. There is a need for progressive alternatives
to register under since other legal forms such as
Societies or Producer Company are not suitable either.
The evolution of SHGs for different purposes should be
appreciated. Therefore the development of traditional
and typical SHG/Federation for nonbusiness purposes
should be appreciated and dealt with accordingly.
Comics based financial literacy tools forurban migrants
IFMR LEAD, in partnership with Neeti Solutions , and
with support from the University of California, recently
developed financial literacy booklets styled on comics.
These booklets were aimed at addressing the knowledge
gaps where migrant workers try using Banking services,
Mobile and Internet Banking etc. IFMR developed these
comic books based on inputs frorm migrant workers and
women entrepreneurs in Dharavi, Mumbai.
During the research in Dharavi, the researchers looked
at behavioral, social and cultural reasons why
respondents with physical access to banks prefer using
cash over credit/debit cards, cheques, remittances, and
mobile banking services. The research team is
examining if providing the migrants with knowledge
about new technological innovations using behavioral
messaging can increase the adoption of banking
services.
The English version of the books can be downloaded
here.
Do you have events, research or publications to share in this newsletter?Are you looking to collaborate with others?Would you like to be part of the Livelihoods Learning e-Group?
Email us at manthanlive@ximb.ac. in
If you have any comments or feedback on this newsletter, please email us; we would behappy to refine and innovate in future editions of LIVEwire.
Editorial TeamJoseph Satish VC Shambu Prasad
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VAPCOL Products on Snapdeal.comAmong its various community centred initiatives, BAIF
Research Foundation has also helped in forming various
farmers’ organizations to process and market farmers’
produce. BAIF brought these different organizations
together as Vasundhara AgriHorti Producer Co. Ltd.
(VAPCOL)
VAPCOL recently launched online marketing of its
products via Snapdeal.com. The products available
online include combo packs of: plain and flavoured
cashew nut, mango pulp and slices, and Amla Candy.
Deliveries are available anywhere within India. VAPCOL
will also shortly introduce a range of silk products from
sericulture farmers and weavers, as well as Warli
paintings and papiermâché masks from tribal artisans.
VAPCOL's range of quality products can be ordered
online using the following link:
VAPCOL products on Snapdeal.com
Vrutti and SFAC's state level workshop onFarmer Producer OrganizationsWith the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India,
observing the year 2014 as the Year of Farmers
Producer Organizations (FPO), Vrutti along with the
Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC)
conducted a “State Level Workshop on Farmer
Producer Organizations” in Hyderabad on September
25, 2014.
The workshop was conducted to share various
schemes and initiatives which can strengthen the
working capital base and business potential of the
FPOs. The workshop also sought to link FPOs to
relevant stakeholders who can provide technical
expertise and financial resources, by establishing
linkages between business and market players to
FPOs for mutual growth and benefits.
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