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SOCIAL INNOVATION IN INDIA :

ADDRESSING CONCERNS OF MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES

•Population: 1.252 Billion•Literacy: 62.8% (M:75.2, F:50.8)•Below Poverty Line: 29.80%

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MULTIPLE AND INTERSECTING CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA

Social Exclusion

(Gender, Caste, Ethnicity)

Capability Deprivation

(and non recognition of

traditional knowledge)

Contemporary Processes of Development

(leading to loss of livelihoods etc.)

Resource Deprivations

(and poor quality

of life)



HOW SOCIAL INNOVATION STARTED IN INDIA?

An Innovative ‘WORK-AROUND’ By Local People For their DAILY NEEDS and Survival

Mumbai Dabbawala (Tiffin Supply Chain)

Tractor Carrying PassengersUse of limited resource and

traditional knowledge

Flexible and Need Based

By local people &Inclusive



COMMUNITY BASED SOCIAL INNOVATIONParticipatory Self Help Housing Project for Indigenous communities

The Alternative: Processes of Community Participation

People Designing their Own Houses along with a multidisciplinary teamThrough a process of Community MobilizationPeople contributing in making

their own houses through subsidized labour

The Situation Before:A Katkari Hamlet

Failure of Govt. Housing: Due to lack of peoples’ participation

OutcomeWas nominated for WORLD HABITAT AWARD

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SI: MAJOR PLAYERS, TYPES, KEY PROJECTS AND CHALLENGES

4 EMPOWERMENT 1.FORMATION OF WOMEN’s COLLECTIVES

(formation of SHGs by MAVIM)

Gaining Political Space: Hoisting National

Flag as Village Head

Income generation

2 Leading to formation of

Collective Relationships

3 COLLECTIVE ACTION(Fielding SHG candidate to contest local Election to avenge insult)

‘all my sisters, thinkfirmly and give yourvote only to theBUCKET

( the election symbol)!

Identification & Mobilization around self

defined needs(A woman was denied the right to hoist national flag)

SOCIAL ACTION INNOVATION

Women’s Leadership Blossoms in Ashtul

Village in India



STATE SOCIAL PROTECTION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION PROGRAMMES:Social Innovation in Poverty Alleviation and Livelihoods Promotion

National Rural Livelihood Mission, GOI

Aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor enabling them to increase

household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services.

Nikita from rural Chhattisgarh is a school dropout. Did wage labour and suffered domestic

violence. Presently she is a community resourse person for SHGs under NRLM and

has regained confidence and independence



DESIGN DRIVEN SOCIAL INNOVATIONDESIGNING LOW COST SCHOOL BAGS THAT ALSO WORKS AS DESKS FOR SLUM CHILDREN IN MUMBAI Innovation by AARAMBH: A Social Enterprise in Mumbai, India

State

CSR

Foreign

support

Community

SI: Available Support

Nature of Support:1. Resource and Infrastructure2. Incubators – convergence approach

Our Institution and What do we do:TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

75 Years of People Centeredness in Education


Livelihoods

IncubationInstitutions

Innovation


PRESENT STATE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION IN INDIA AND CHALLENGES

• MAJOR PLAYERS

• Social Movements, Civil Society Organizations

• MAJOR PLAYERS

• State, Civil Society Organizations

• MAJOR PLAYERS

• Social Enterprises

• Individual Entrepreneurs

• MAJOR PLAYERS

• Community Based Organizations, NGOs

• CSRs

1. Process

Innovations

“Community Based

Innovations”

2. Product

Innovations

“Design Innovations”

4. Overall Innovation

Environment

“Structural Innovation”

3. Changed Process and

Product

“Collective Innovation”



A PERSPECTIVE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION IN INDIA

PEOPLE CENTERED SOCIAL INNOVATION: IMPACTING LIVES, EMPOWERING PEOPLE

Marginalities

PEOPLE CENTERED SOCIAL INNOVATION: Reaching the Unreached

(Addressing social challenges, societal needs and systemic changes)


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