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Contents

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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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

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Standard Customized Practitioners Livelihood Practitioners of Practitioners

Programs Programs Attended(A) Orientation Attended(B) Attended(A+B)

Offered Offered Programs

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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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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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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

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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.


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.


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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