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I. From the Dean’s Desk 01
1. About Us 02
2. Activities of the School 2009-10 02
2.1 Knowledge Building (KB) 03
2.1.1 Case Writeshops 03
2.1.2 Research Studies 04
2.1.3 Paper Publications 04
2.1.4 Forums of Mutual Exchange 05
2.1.5 Curriculum Development 06
2.1.6 Field Based Support 06
2.2 Knowledge Dissemination 06
3. Institutional Aspects 08
4. Governance 09
5. Human Resources 09
6. Partnership and Collaborations 11
7. Board of Governors 12
8. The Core Team 13
9. Financials 16
10. Publications of the School 19
Annual Report - 2010
From the Dean's Desk
Over the years the livelihood situation of the disadvantaged people in the country has become
even more precarious. More than half of them depend primarily on agriculture for their livelihoods. All
of them together share only 17% of the national income. Only two-third of the land that they till has no
regular source of water or are extremely shallow and depleted. Electricity, water and roads do not reach
them. Half of those who do not depend on agriculture also live in slums, with little of these resources but
highly insecure and vulnerable. The little market they tapped is also getting flooded with globalizing
foreign companies, who apart from the profits are also sapping up some of the best brains of the nation.
However, around this dark cloud, there is a silver lining. The policy makers of the country are up
and awake. Special attention is being provided for livelihood generation. Several Indian companies
have done well in the changing market and are pumping in huge resources in the country.
At this juncture livelihood education starts playing a critical role. Rigorous research is required to
identify what needs to be done to promote large number of livelihoods in this continually changing
context. Large number of people needs to be trained to take up action against poverty. The Livelihood
School in the third year of its growth has started playing a part in this role. This year the primary focus,
therefore, has been on knowledge building. It undertook studies of several sub-sectors in Chhattisgarh,
Gujarat and Bihar, which supported the livelihoods of a large number of poor people. It undertook
research programs to understand how some growing clusters support the livelihoods of a large number.
It looked into the livelihood opportunities in the ecologically fragile hilly terrains. The School also took
up a large research project with support from the World Bank to understand how private-public
partnership actually worked under the Alternate Implementation Model, where the government
governed and others delivered the goods and services. The School has also initiated an action
research in Gaya district of Bihar to identify practices that would be required to reach the services of
Microfinance institutions to the poorest people, who still remain unreached, in collaboration with the
Grameen Foundation, US.
In addition to these efforts of knowledge building, the School endeavored to strengthen some of
its academic processes and systems preparing itself for addressing the large challenge that lies in front
of us. It also continued to disseminate the knowledge developed through various programs, however
the focus shifted to customized programs and extending accompaniment support after the participants
were trained.
In this report we have tried to capture our experiences of building the School up as a knowledge
institution.
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Dr. Sankar Datta
Dean
1. About Us
It is widely accepted today that promotion of large number of livelihoods, especially for the rural poor
and women, has emerged as the most significant development challenge of the century. However,
there are two significant bottlenecks, which are witnessed in the field of livelihood promotion. These
include: inadequate availability of knowledge base on how to support/ promote large number of
livelihoods, and inadequate availability of trained human resources who can participate in this work
effectively. To address this dual need, BASIX, a leading livelihood promotion / support agency had set
up an educational institution- ‘The Livelihood School’. The mandate of the School is to build up a
knowledge base on livelihoods and disseminate the same to livelihood practitioners for enhancing
their understanding and implementation capabilities, who in turn will promote large number of
livelihoods. After, initial three years of incubation, as part of BASIX, the School got registered on
10th April, 2007 as an independent society.
Vision
To impact the livelihoods of millions of poor and other
disadvantaged sections of the society, especially of , in a
sustainable, socially and economically equitable manner, by
building knowledge about processes, methods and principles of
livelihood promotion and disseminating the same to enhance the
capacities of practitioners, whose work affects the livelihoods of a
large number.
Bharat
2. Activities of the School 2009-10
The focus during this year has been on consolidating institutional and knowledge processes on one
hand and outreach on the other. This is achieved through strengthening knowledge building process
through commissioned research for improved performance of large scale state led programs, especially
in poor states such as Bihar and North Eastern States. An innovative approach of documenting the
latent knowledge of the practitioners through facilitating case writeshops for practitioners of the grass
root level organizations is adopted during this year. Collaboration with various state led livelihood
promotion initiatives, civil society organizations and financial institutions was also undertaken. With
these programs the School has reached out to over 10,000 practitioner’s through knowledge
dissemination programs.
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2.1.1 Case Writeshops
The School has developed a unique process of facilitating the practitioners to document their
experience in the form of case studies, through case writing workshops. The School believes and
understands the importance of making the tacit knowledge of the practitioners ‘explicit’ as the
practitioners do experience many challenges, gain insights during the course of the intervention.
During the reporting year, School conducted write shops for the following organizations
Twenty two cases were developed in all on a wide range of experiences of the people working in these
three leading institutions on varied topics such as
Sustainable agriculture
Floriculture
Dairy
Weaving
Rural-urban enterprises
Community organization
Panchayat Raj Institutions
In these cases, the School supported the authors to document the cases in their local languages.
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MYRADA
SEWA Union
BASIX
‘The six case studies developed during the write shop wouldn’t have emerged without the initiative
taken by The Livelihood School. MYRADA left to itself is an Actionist NGO and does not give itself
enough time to reflect leave alone to write.’
Aloysius Fernandez
MYRADA
2.1 Knowledge Building (KB)
Under the knowledge building function, this year the school focused on conducting issue based
research studies. The studies covered varied themes including
Improvement of performance of large scale Government programs in Bihar.
The approach of facilitating the practitioners to unfold their latent knowledge in the form of case studies
was one of the key knowledge building efforts. Two seminars organized by the School sought attention
of the stakeholders in chalking out the future trajectories.
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Number of Cases Developed 8
Number of Case Writeshops Facilitated 4
Number of Research Studies 8
Number of Paper Publications 3
Number of Events/Seminars Organized 3
Number of Curriculums Developed 2
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2.1.2 Research Studies
Some of the research studies undertaken during this year include the following :
i. A Study on Evolution of the Low-End Readymade Garments Industry in and around Kolkata, West
Bengal was conducted to map the evolution of the business model and to understand the scope of
moving up of the value chain. The study brought out the different linkages within the supply chain
and helped recommend the liveraging of these linkages to increase productivity and profitability.
ii. Research on the effect of Microfinance on household income in four districts of Andhra Pradesh
revealed that the cost of finance had gone up, but had not effected net income except in cases
where household economic activity was diversified with access to additional credit.
iii. A study on Identification of Livelihood Opportunities and Challenges of Forest Dwellers in Upland
Areas of North Eastern States of India’ in collaboration with CESS, Hyderabad revealed that a
combination of strategies combined with state intervention to strengthen local institution and
infrastructure was essential to enhance the livelihood opportunities in the area.
iv. The research study on Institutional Mechanism Model for NREGA and SGSY in Bihar for the World
Bank, New Delhi revealed that the forging of appropriate partnership with corporates / NGOs and
civil society organisations by Government would enable more efficient delivery and
implementation of NREGA, NRLM and other state lead livelihood initiatives. This would also allow
the Government to focus on its core responsibility of governance.
2.1.3 Paper Publications
Title Publication/Seminar
During the reporting year, the following papers have been published in various books and journals.
Livelihood Enhancement
Participatory Watershed Development
Small Scale Rural Aquaculture in West
Bengal: Livelihood perspective Aquaculture Society in
Kaulalampur, Nov 2009
Combating Climate Change through
Sustainable Agriculture February 2010
Leveraging Livelihoods for Muslim
Women in Hyderabad Tata Institute of Social
Sciences- Mumbai
SHG-Bank linkage: Impact on
Livelihoods of the Poor, based on the
secondary data.
through Rural Transformation and Changing
Agrarian Relations, MP ISSR
Asia Pacific Meet, World
ICCD 2010, CEET, Kerala,
Indian Journal of Social Work,
Indian Journal of Social Work,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences-
Mumbai
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2.1.4 Forums of Mutual Exchange
a. Livelihood Day 2009
The School was associated as a knowledge
partner of Access Development Services in
conducting Livelihoods Day along with the
Microfinance Summit, held at Delhi on 28th
October 2009. More than 600 participants
registered for the Livelihood Day this year.
b. Seminars
Two Seminars, were organized during the year one on “Future Options for Agriculture” at Bengaluru,
and other on “Fisheries based Livelihoods: Present status, Problems and Prospects” in the month of
June and November 2009. The seminars reviewed the status, recent initiatives and policy attention in
the recent years, and sought attention of stakeholders in livelihood promotion.
The synthesis of the seminar on Fisheries based Livelihood
has been published by the School. During the seminar, it
was viewed that though in the recent years there has been
some amount of policy attention to fisheries, and it has
been separated from Agriculture, most of it has focused on
marine fisheries and large reservoir and very little attention
has been given for freshwater small tank fisheries, which
forms the basis of livelihoods for a large number of poor
households. In freshwater fisheries also the main trend has
been to move from capture fisheries to cultured fisheries, to
enhancement fisheries, which is not friendly for the poor.
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2.1.5 Curriculum Development
Developing curriculum based on practitioner-oriented
knowledge for offering various programs on livelihood
promotion is crucial to achieve objective of the school.
Hence, the School has a process of developing the
curriculum which includes review of literature and
conducting thematic cases.
This year curriculum was developed for the following two modules
Both the curricula were reviewed and shared in two workshops held in July and December
respectively. Prof. Devi Prasad Mishra, Dr S Palit, retired IFS and Mr. Krishna Rao, CEO from Kovel
Foundation, engaged in promoting NTFP based livelihoods, Vishakapatnam were the resource
persons.
In addition to standard program, efforts to improvise the existing curriculum as part of customizing the
programs suiting to the diverse client needs across regions was undertaken and following curriculums
were prepared:
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Marketing for Livelihoods
Promotion of NTFP based Livelihoods.
Curriculum for Livelihood Orientation for PRIs of five districts in Uttarakhand.
Curriculum for three levels of staff for Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihood Project (MPRLP)
Curriculum for a regular Masters program on "Microfinance, Micro enterprises for Livelihood
promotion” for Kasturbagram Rural Institute, Indore.
Curriculum for Integrated module on Fundamentals of Livelihood Promotion as per the capacity
building needs expressed by RBH gateway agencies.
2.1.6 Field Based Support
The School offered field based support to WDC promoted SHG federations in Maner block of Bihar
with objectives of helping in developing a livelihood promotion project that would support livelihoods
of 200 families, through impacting four livelihood sub-sectors prevailing in the areas like wheat, paddy,
vegetable and milk. As part of the support, market survey has been completed on the wheat and the
Federation launched their product “Jagrithi Atta” in May 2010.
2.2 Knowledge Dissemination
The School offered programs on seven standard modules on livelihood promotion for various
agencies, in addition to some customized programs as part of knowledge dissemination function.
These modules were :
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Themes Covered Sponsorship
Programs on Entrepreneurship and World Vision, Bangalore
Marketing Strategy
Training of SHGs to take up NTFP based Bio-diversity Conservation Project
micro-enterprises by conserving of CG-MFP Federation.
biodiversity and managing the natural
resources
Livelihood education program for NABARD, Bihar
NABARD officers including DDMs in
Bihar
Program on designing Livelihood UNDP supported Jharkhand
interventions Livelihood Promotion
Society (JSLPS), Ranchi
Fundamentals of Livelihood Orissa Forestry Sector
Promotion-2, with a new Development Project (OFSDP),
set of case lets in Oriya Government of Orissa
Module on Microfinancing livelihoods OSCARE network and for various
building focus on Microfinance systems, Microfinance providers
and product development for promoting in Tamilnadu.
livelihoods
Program on Livelihood Visioning CARE India-Jharkhand,
and Promotion Strategies OFSDP-Orissa, and WDC, Bihar
Training of Trainers of Governance and VKP-Tamilnadu
Book keeping for economic activity
groups supported by SHG federations
Number of Number of Number of Number of Number of Total Number
Standard Customized Practitioners Livelihood Practitioners of Practitioners
Programs Programs Attended(A) Orientation Attended(B) Attended(A+B)
Offered Offered Programs
Offered
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Some of the customized programs that are offered to various agencies are :
(i) Fundamentals of Livelihood Promotion (FLP)-1, (ii) Fundamentals of Livelihood Promotion
(FLP)-2, (iii) Watershed based Livelihood Promotion, (iv) Livestock based Livelihood Promotion,
(v) Microfinancing Livelihoods Promotion, (vi) Marketing for Livelihood Promotion
(vii) Promoting NTFP based Livelihoods.
The programs offered and the participates attended during the year are as follows:
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Beyond the Borders
The School offered its first program for
practitioners from other nations through
the Banking With The Poor (BWTP)
network in collaboration with BASIX
Academy on July’09 at Hyderabad,
to help Microfinance institutions
to take interventions ahead of pure
Microfinance.
The Ford Foundation has sought support
of the School in establishing an
institution with similar focus in Africa. An
exposure visit is organized for the
representatives and partners of the
Foundation from Africa.
Short livelihood orientation programs
were also offered to agencies such as
Jan Chetna Sansthan, Rajasthan, Asha
Niketan Welfare Centre, Bhopal,
CARITAS India, Rural Business Hub
(RBH) Gateway Agencies, Jaipur.
3. Institutional aspectsBreakthrough Planning
The School team came together, reflected on its mission and preparedness for and performance
towards accomplishing it. These reflections lead towards setting vision for the next five years, through
three Break Through Directions (BTD), related strategies as priority means and activities to be taken up
in the next one year.
The Vision Statement for next five years is:
“By 2015, the School shall emerge as a premier pro-poor livelihood knowledge
institution, building the capacities of one lakh practitioners in ten States of India and five
other countries, resulting in enhanced effectiveness of livelihood promoting
organizations through a team of 500 faculty members.”
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4. Governance
The Livelihood School is governed by a nine-member Board which is a mix of academicians and
practitioners from the development sector. Council of Academics and Practitioners (CAP), the general
body elects the board. The CAP meets at least once a year.
The Board members participated in four board meetings. Two Standing Committees of the Board –
Academic Affairs and Practitioner Engagement also deliberated on their respective focus areas in
detail.
5. Human Resources
As livelihood promotion is an emerging field of knowledge, efforts are made to build a pool of faculty
resources having varied nature of experiences by building competence both in understanding of
livelihoods and teaching methods suitable for practitioners.
This year, two new core faculty and 22 extended faculty members have joined the School bringing up
the total number of staff to 28 with 14 core faculty and 105 extended faculty members. The new recruits
have gone through induction program.
The BTDs and priorities include
Building a focused collaboration for KB and KD
Increasing customer base
Capitalizing on ICT
Strengthening Human Resources
Work Culture
Streamlining systems
Building sector connect to ensure relevance
Contemporizing livelihood education both in terms of building contemporary knowledge
and delivery
Practitioner-Connect to ensure enhanced effectiveness
BTD – 1: Achieving Scale in knowledge building and dissemination by
BTD – 2: Achieve process efficiency, improved productivity and synergies by
BTD–3: Being sentient and proactive in addressing practitioners’ emerging needs for
enhancing their effectiveness by
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Faculty Development 2
Induction of Faculty
Case Writing Workshops 2
Case Teaching/Write
Program
Members 22
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During the reporting period, the School faculty group attended various seminars and workshops as
part of efforts of School in building the capacity of its faculty group.
Seminar on “Samvad: A dialogue on Microfinance organized by Grameen Koota on 30th May at
Bangalore.
Seminar on “Poverty, Livelihood and Microfinance: Preliminary observations from the field”
organized by Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR) and Centre for
Microfinance (CMF) at Chennai.
Workshop on Strengthening Local Governance organized by Institute of Rural Management
Anand (IRMA)
Management Development Program (MDP) on Inclusive Marketing organized by MART and
Birla Institute of Management Technology ( BIMTech) Noida.
Workshop of SIRDs and NGOs held at Indira Gandhi Gramin Vikas Sansthan, Jaipur (Rajasthan
SIRD) for building the capacities of Panchayats across the state.
National Level Consultation on National Rural Mission organized at New Delhi
PRI, Module Development Workshop at MPSIRD, Jabalpur in December 2009.
State Advisory Committee meeting for National Rural Livelihood Mission, Madhya Pradesh
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InternationalOrganisations
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IFAD OXFAMWorld Bank
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Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
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Sa-Dhan
Banks and Finance
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Madhya Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project (MPDPIP)Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihood Project (MPRLP)
Minor Forest Producer Federation, Chhattisgarh (MFPF)MFPs in Tamilnadu
Orissa Forestry Sector Development Project, Orissa (OFSDP)Rural Business Hub, Rajasthan (RBH)
Regional Centre for Development Cooperation, Orissa (RCDC)Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods, Rajasthan (RMoL)
State Institute of Rural Development, Chhattisgarh (SIRD)VKP, Tamilnadu, Women Development Corporation, Bihar (WDC)
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Asha Niketan Welfare Centre, BhopalAga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP)
Basix Bandhan Chaitanya CARITASIndia, RBH, Jaipur Deshpande Foundation,Hubli GOAL India, Hyderabad Jan ChetnaSansthan, Rajasthan MYRADA, Bangalore
Sabuj Sangha, Kolkata Saija VikasSelf Employed Women's Association, SEWA
WASMO World Vision, Bangalore
Academic Institutions�
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Hyderabad (CESS)
Guwahati (IIBM)Kolkata (IIMC)
Indore (KGI)
Gurgaon (MDI)
Centre for Economic and Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Bank Management,
Indian Institute of Management,Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)
Kasturba Gram Institute,Management Development Institute,
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6. Partnership and Collaborations
Efforts on strengthening collaborations with academia and practitioners, including large scale, state led
livelihood promotion initiatives had been a continuous activity of the School.
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7. Board of Governors
Mr. Vijay Mahajan,
Mr. Deep Joshi :
Dr. Somnath Ghosh :
Mr. Lalit Mathur :
Dr. Vidya Rao :
Mr. N. V. Ramana
Chairman of BASIX Group was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi (1970-75); the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1979-81); and at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA (1988-89). He co-
founded PRADAN in 1983, Sa-dhan in 1998 and APMAS in 2000. He has co-authored a book “The
Forgotten Sector” on the rural non-farm sector and written over 50 articles on rural livelihoods,
development and Microfinance. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Inclusion, the
Microfinance Equity and Development Fund and is also on the Board of CGAP, the global
Microfinance apex. He was selected as “Outstanding Social Entrepreneur” by the Schwab Foundation
of the World Economic Forum, Davos, 2003.
He is the co-founder of Professional Assistance for Development Action
(PRADAN), a non-profit organization and one of the co-promoters of BASIX, a livelihood promotion
institute. He has been awarded the Ramon Megasaysay Award – 2009, which is known as Asia’s
Nobel Prize and Padma Shri in 2010. He has a degree from the National Institute of Technology in
Allahabad, a Masters Degree in Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a
Management Degree from MIT’s Solan School. He advises the Government of Indian on poverty
alleviation strategies.
He has a Ph.D. degree from JNU and worked in Reserve Bank of India and as
faculty at IIM, Bangalore, Luknow and Indore. He is also working as a Consultant and Trainer in the
field of Livelihood Promotion, Human Resources, Institutional Development and Microfinance. He
also heads the Executive Committee of the KBS Bank.
He is retired Director General of National Institute of Rural Development,
Hyderabad, and has been a part of the Indian Administrative Service and was involved in various rural
development programs of the Government including leading CAPART in its early days.
She is a Professor of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar,
Mumbai, and has been actively engaged in building collaborations of TISS with other institutions,
especially civil society organization.
is a graduate in Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
with specialization in Agriculture. He worked with ITC Group for twenty years; he had been with the
BASIX Group in various capacities. He is now working as an independent consultant in the filed of
Microfinance and livelihood promotion. He also serves as a Board Member on Ctran Consulting
Services and Indian Grameen Services.
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8. The Core Team
Sankar Datta (Dean)
Nabarun Sengupta (Sr. Faculty)
Akhilesh Parey (Sr. Faculty)
A Management graduate, with basic training in Agriculture and Doctorate in Economics. He was
associated with promotion of rural livelihoods through MPOILFED and had initiated the first livelihood
project of PRADAN, a major livelihood support NGO of India and was responsible for Operations and
HR of the BASIX in initial years. He has been involved in designing and launching the Microfinance
education program of Sa-Dhan and the Management Appreciation Program for Voluntary Agencies
(VOLAG-MAP) of IRMA. He has been Member of the Advisory Committee of CMA in IIM-A.
A Postgraduate in Social Sciences, from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, (TISS) Mumbai. He has over
15 years of experience in development sector. He worked in watershed projects of AKRSP and as a
Faculty at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad , managing post graduate
programme in NGO Management. He has expertise in documenting learning documents with
practitioners and providing handholding development initiative to development organization through
field level support to agencies on livelihood promotion.
A M.Tech (Soil and Water Engineering) with Certificate Course in Development Management from
U.K, Alumni of IIRR Philippines. He has over 16 years of experience in Livelihood Promotion and
Rural Development. He worked with DFID, UK Project.
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Mr. Sanjiv Phansalkar :
Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar :
Dr. R. Balakrishnan :
He was professor in IRMA for over twelve years, and was the director with
International Water Management Institute, Anand and now he is with Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai.
He is the Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, he was
Director of the Centre for Social Studies, and was Director of Gujarat Institute of Development
Research. He is a Gandhian Economist and been closely associated with voluntary movement both as
an academic and as an activist
He is Retired Executive Director of NABARD. He has earned his doctorate for
his thesis on Supply Chain Management in Agriculture. He is an acclaimed author in areas of
Development Banking and Finance apart from being a socially sensitive manager of a large financial
system like NABARD.
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Srinivas Surisetti (Sr. Faculty
Dhruv J. Sengupta (Faculty)
Pradeep Kumar Mishra (Faculty):
Srinu Babu M (Senior Faculty Associate)
B.B. Panda (Senior Faculty Associate)
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A Doctorate in Social Work. He has 18 years of experience in Livelihood Promotion through
Microfinance, Natural Resource Management and Skill Building of youth. He was extensively engaged
in designing and conduct of training programs with both Government and Civil Society Organizations
such APRLP-GoAP, Care India, APMAS and Aide et Action. He worked with SHG and SHG federations
and rating process with APMAS, supporting the efforts of SERP and APRLP in Andhra Pradesh. He was
a Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction specialist with the IGWDP-AP implemented by NABARD,
supporting the integration of livelihoods in its Watershed Programs.
A Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Management from XISS, Ranchi, M.Phil in Natural Resource
Management from Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal. He has 19 years of
experience in development sector with both academic and practice. He was associated with donor
driven projects with NGO, collaboration projects with State Government-NGO and as a Freelance
Consultant. He has worked extensively in Eastern India and Southern Rajasthan in both implementing
projects and in managerial positions focusing on natural resource management, women empowerment
and livelihoods.
A development professional; doctorate in the field of ‘Rural
Management’; having both academic and professional experience for more than 11 years primarily
focussing on poverty alleviation projects. He is a recipient of Reserve Bank of India Fellowship. He has
dealt with issues on project management, monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment and
conducted several studies and evaluations and has published several papers in Indian as well as
international publications.
A Postgraduate in anthropology from Guru Ghasidas
University, Bilaspur. He has an experience of 12 years in Panchayati Raj Institutions, PRA, training and
capacity building in livelihoods. He is capable in handling capacity building of livelihood promoting
organizations, conducting research, feasibility analysis, impact studies and documentation, need
assessment for capacity building, capacity building of PRIs on Local Self Governance, institution
development, business process re-engineering, project planning, monitoring and evaluation,
organizational development, project planning and management through Log frame technique, micro-
planning and setting up indicators for monitoring and evaluation, project development and proposal
preparation, feasibility and business planning of SMEs and pre-funding appraisal.
An MBA from Sambalpur University, Orissa. He has over 14 years of experience in Participatory Forest
Management, Forest networking and capacity building, Non-Timber Forest Produce Management and
sustainable harvesting, development planning, monitoring and evaluation and participatory rural
appraisal.
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S. Nirmala (Senior Faculty Associate)
B.N. Dhananjaya (Senior Faculty Associate)
Radha Thakur (Faculty Associate)
Rajendra S. Gautam (Faculty Associate)
Rupam Mandal (Senior Faculty Associate)
Mahua Roy Choudhury (Senior Faculty Associate)
A Postgraduate in Social Work from Madurai Kamaraj University . She has over 14 years of experience
in community based Microfinance and Livelihood. She has expertise in Community Organization,
managing SHG federation, proposal writing, training etc. Before joining the School, she had worked
with the Dhan Foundation and PRADAN.
A Postgraduate in Agriculture Economics from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He has
over 15 years of experience in development sector mainly in the areas of water supply, sanitation,
health and hygiene education, watershed and livelihood promotion. He has worked in the field of
project management, research, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation. Basic interests are
application of the knowledge and experience in planning and implementation of development
projects.
MBA in Rural Management from XIDAS, Jabalpur, She has over 6 years of experience in the
Development Sector. She had worked with Centre for Microfinance and BASIX before joining the
School.
Has done M. Phil in Environmental Politics and Doctorate in Participatory Watershed Development
and Management. He has over 6 years of experience in Development Sector. His areas of interest are
Community Based Natural Resources Management, Decentralized Governance, Livelihoods, NTFPs
and Poverty Alleviation, Environmental Politics, Groundwater Governance, etc. His expertise is in
qualitative/quantities research techniques and participatory trainings on aforesaid subjects.
M.Sc. in Zoology with specialization in Fisheries Science. He has over 14 years of experience with
different Government and Non-Government Organizations like Strengthening Rural Decentralization-
SRD Cell, West Bengal State Rural Development Agency, Panchayat & Rural Development
Department and Indo-Global Social Service Society, Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and
Development.
A Graduate in Science, Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development from Xavier Institute of Social
Service (XISS, Ranchi). She has over 12 years of experience in development sector.
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9. FinancialsAUDITOR'S REPORT
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Balance Sheet
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Income and Expenditure Statement
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10. Publications of the School
Learning from the field: Cases of MYRADA
in Action
State of India’s Livelihoods Report, 2009
During the reporting year, the school has added six new publications to the knowledge collection.
These publications are of various categories: Case Studies, Research Findings Manual.
The Livelihood School and MYRADA came together to
organize case writeshop for MYRADA’s professionals and
para-professionals to unfold their latent knowledge and
document in the form of cases. The six cases which form
part of this book are the end-product of the very writeshop.
Each of the six cases is unique in itself. Each of them is about
different intervention carried out by MYRADA at different
locations. The six cases cover subjects like floriculture,
community organization, enterprise management, mango
prickle making, agarbatti enterprise and stitching.
The School has partnered with Access Development
Services in organizing the Sustainable Livelihoods India
Initiative for the second successive year. As a knowledge
partner, the School was engaged in developing the State of
India Livelihoods (SOIL Report), including a chapter on
Livelihood Finance. The State of India Livelihood Report
(SOIL Report) was released on this occasion by Ms. Agatha
Sangma, Minister of State for Rural Development.
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Case studies on livelihood interventions
based on Non Timber Forest Produce
Solar Home Lighting System
As part of curriculum development for the module on
Non Timber Forest Produce based livelihood
intervention, the School developed seven thematic cases.
These cases cover case studies on NTFP based livelihood
intervention in Chattisgrah State, Keystone Foundation in
Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, South India, Kovel
Foundation, livelihood intervention on Mahua collection
and Leaf plate making.
This study conducted by the Livelihood School
attempts to cull out the learning’s inherent to efforts
initiated under one of the SDC sponsored Livelihood
Triad Fund Projects. The focus of the learning’s have
been on processes initiated by some of the
organizations to enable households to have access to
the technology, the technology options chosen,
support systems created and the micro financing
products developed for the solar products. The study
also looked at sustainability of the technology in the
context of scaling up and replicability.
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Savings of the Poor
A Resource Book for livelihood
Promotion
The Livelihood School has undertaken a study with
the support of Ford Foundation in understanding the
savings behavior of the poor. As a part of this study, it
has undertaken case studies of six different
institutions which have engaged in providing savings
services to the people. It has also maintained financial
diaries attempting to record every financial
transaction in over 100 poor household through a
period of one year. All together the School has
carried out the study on “Savings Behaviour among
the Poor and Design of Appropriate Savings
Products” with the help of Books for Change
Publishing House, Bangalore.
This Resource Book for Livelihood Promotion
brings together the experiences and learning
from a wide range of development professionals
engaged in livelihood promotion in India over
many years. It provides a simple step-by-step
guide for promoting livelihoods in an area by
understanding the People-Resources-Market.
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Case Studies on Watershed Interventions
Livelihood Learning Group Series
The School has initiated an effort to document many of
efforts of livelihood promotion and/or support. This study
will gives us an opportunity to understand some livelihood
interventions using watershed management as the prime
driver of change, looking into leads to promotion of large
number of livelihoods. This also helps in identifying
research questions, which are going to help livelihood
promoters. And finally this would help identify areas of
training that would be required for preparing a large cadre of
people, who will be required to address the large problem
being faced.
The Livelihood School has initiated various processes of
livelihood education, one among them being a mutual
learning forum, the Livelihood Learning Group (LLG). The
purpose of the LLG is to bring together practitioners of
livelihood promotion with academicians to jointly reflect,
conceptualize, and generalize on their experience and
understanding to develop learning’s. This process of lateral
learning creates new knowledge that can be incorporated
into the practices of LLG participants and others.
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Case Studies on Microfinance
Interventions
Case Studies on Dairy Interventions
The School engaged reflective practitioners to write
these cases, and not people in regular academics.
This also was an attempt towards bringing out the
tacit knowledge, which often came from practice.
Towards this endeavor School team undertook
facilitating case documentation of several
interventions. Also looked at cases of interventions
where Microfinance was used to propel a wide
variety of livelihoods for the poor.
The Livelihood School looked at cases of interventions,
where Dairying was used to augment the livelihoods for
the poor. These includes the Dairy Interventions in
Jharkhand, Sudha Dairy – A Ray of Hope in Bihar,
Mulukanoor Women’s Dairy Cooperative, Renaissance
for Self Reliance: A Case of Bhairopur Milk Society,
Paliganj Vitrani Krishak Samiti: A Case Study and
Nurturing Community Development through Dairy
Initiative: A Case Study of Pathirakaliamman Dairy,
Madurai District, Tamil Nadu.
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