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;
*  Factors that contributed to the success of the collective action;
*  Role of external agency, if any. Nature of facilitation/ intervention/ support;
*  Key theme of collective action;
*  Organizational arrangement for the collective action;
*  Type and nature of external linkages;
*  Parameters of success and results thereon;
*  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 31^st 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.