Friday, May 27, 2011

SITARAM RAO LIVELIHOODS INDIA CASE STUDY COMPETITION 2011


SITARAM RAO LIVELIHOODS INDIA CASE STUDY COMPETITION 2011 

After an overwhelming response in the last two years, ACCESS Development Services, in collaboration with the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) announces the Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition 2011. The competition is supported by Rabobank Foundation.  

The competition is a part of the Livelihoods India Initiative that has been initiated by ACCESS to provide a national platform that enables research based documentation of, and emergence of a more nuanced discourse on, key challenges in promoting secure livelihoods for the poor. These in turn, are expected to trigger evidence based discussions on public policies and framing of more efficacious strategies of interventions, while helping to build a larger consensus within the sector. It is with these objectives that ACCESS has forged partnership with IRMA for a more robust initiative.  

Theme
The 2011 theme of the competition is centered on “Collectives in the Agri-allied Sector”. For purposes of the competition, agri allied sector comprises the dairy, poultry, goatary, sheep rearing, piggery, fisheries, sericulture and bee keeping etc sectors. The aim of the 2011 competition is to seek contributions on emerging collective initiatives across the agri allied sector. The case study should cover any combination of the following themes/ issues: 
      *  Conditions within which the collective action was initiated;
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Factors that contributed to the success of the collective action;
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Role of external agency, if any. Nature of facilitation/ intervention/ support;
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Key theme of collective action;
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Organizational arrangement for the collective action;
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Type and nature of external linkages;
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Parameters of success and results thereon;
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Critical challenges for continued success of the collective action. 

How to register?
Participants are required to first fill in a registration form and provide an abstract of 400 words of their cases by the 15th of June, 2011. Please click here to go to the registration form.  

Process
These abstracts will be reviewed and the shortlisted participants can then send in their final cases by the 31st August, 2011. The final shortlisted cases will be reviewed by an eminent Jury consisting of sector experts who will choose the best 10 cases. The top 3 will receive cash prices of Rs. 100,000, Rs. 75,000 and Rs. 50,000 respectively. A compendium of the best 10 cases will be released at the Livelihoods India Conference 2011.  


For more details, please visit the Case Study Competition 2011 webpage. You can also direct your queries to livelihoodsindia@accessdev.org.  

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Indira Awas Yojana -Rural Housing scheme (इंदिरा आवास योजना)

इस योजना का प्रमुख उद्देश्य उन लोगों को आवास उपलब्ध कराना है जो ग्रामीण खेत्रों में गरीबी रेखा के नीचे जीवन यापन कर रहे हैं। इस योजना के जरिये बी।पी।एल।परिवारों को २० वर्ग फीट क्षेत्रफल में घर बनाने के लिए आर्थिक सहायता दी जाती है।ऐसे परिवारों का चयन जिला पंचायत या जिला स्तरीय ग्रामीण विकास संस्था(द्वारा किया जाता है।जिला पंचायतें तथा जिला स्तरीय ग्रामीण विकास संस्था(डी।आर।डी।ए।) यह निर्णय भी लेतीं है कि किस क्षेत्र में कितने आवास निर्मित किये जाने हैं तथा ये संसथाएँ घर बनाने के लिए प्रयुक्त की जाने वालीं  पर्यावरण अनुकूल,आपदा विरोधी तकनीकियों के बारे में भी जानकारी देतीं हैं।

जानने योग्य आवश्यक बातें
  • इंदिरा आवास योजना के अंतर्गत राशियों का निर्धारण केन्द्रीय व राज्य सरकार के बीच ७५ : २५ के अनुपात में किया जाता है ।
  • जिला स्तरीय ग्रामीण विकास संसथाएं ग्राम सभाओं के जरिये लाभार्थियों को राशियाँ प्रदान करतीं हैं.
  • लाभार्थियों का चयन नवीन बी।पी ।एल ।सूची से किया जाता है जिसमें सबसे गरीब को पहले प्राथमिकता दी जाती है।
  • इस योजना के अंतर्गत नया आवास बनाने अथवा कच्चे घर को पक्का बनाने के लिए आर्थिक सहायता दी जाती है।
  • लाभार्थी अपनी पसंद का घर बना सकता है।
इंदिरा आवास योजना के अंतर्गत बनाये गए घरों में राजीव गांधी विद्युत् योजना के जरिये सभी लाभार्थियों को विजली भी उपलब्ध कराई जाती है।

लाभार्थी
  • अनुसूचित जाति,अनुसूचित जनजाति,महिलायें और समाज के पिछड़े हुए लोग 
  • शारीरिक व मानसिक रूप से अक्षम व्यक्ति
लाभ प्राप्त करने के लिए योग्यता
  • ग्रामीण बी।पी।एल।परिवार
  • इंदिरा आवास योजना के तहत शारीरिक व मानसिक रूप से अक्षम व्यक्तियों के लिए तीन प्रतिशत आवास आरक्षित रहते हैं.
  • महिलाओं के संदर्भ में ,घर का आवंटन महिला के नाम से या संयुक्त रूप से पति और पत्नी के नाम से होना चाहिए।
किसे संपर्क करें
ग्राम पंचायत, ग्रामीण विकास मंत्रालय,भारत सरकारै

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Participation of LIFE Field animators on LIFE blog!



Its good to see that now the field animators of our LIFE project are also reading the blog (once in a week) and are now requesting for some of the postings in Hindi.


It’s also good that to read the blog, now the animators are surfing internet and becoming the follower of the blog. Recently Mr. Hemant (field Animator of LIFE project at Disha-RCDSSS-Ajmer) has joined the LIFE blog as follower and his Endeavour is making other animators to read the blog & to join the same.


Hope the participation of field animators and project community on this blog would enhance the visibility of the blog and project too!



LIFE project news in the quarterly news letter (Jan-Mar 2011)of Disha-RCDSSS-Ajmer



Sunday, May 1, 2011

LIFE PROJECT partner-Disha-RCDSSS-Ajmer-Participation in Budget planning session (2011-12) of Rajasthan Government

We are happy to share that , recently one of the LIFE project partner in Rajasthan; DISHA-RCDSSS-Ajmer have been called by the state government of Rajasthan to be the part of making key decisions on the stae Budget for the financial year 2011-2012.


Fr. Antony Fernandes , the Director of Disha-RCDSSS-Ajmer has participated in the meeting and given suggestion on “strengthening the Natural Resource Management through participation of community in managing forest and pastureland” and the same suggestion has been included in the final budget of the Rajasthan state government.

In the above said meeting around 43 leading NGOs of Rajasthan and country were called.

Recent LIFE project activities at Disha-RCDSSS-Ajmer

28th-30th April 2011: Training on analysing 'data of monitoring tools applied for all the HHs of LIFE peoject villages'-this involved LIFE project team of Disha-RCDSSS-Ajmer (Coordinators-Mr. Manish& Mr. Krishna, Field Animators-Mr. Hemant, Mr. Gayarshi Lal, Mr. Ajay & Mr. Ramnath, Account officer-Mr. Satypal Siingh and from Caritas India-Mr. Vinod Pandey & Ms. Sashirekha