Livelihoods October 2015
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livelihoods today and tomorrow October 2015 Communitization Communitized Convergence! -7 livelihoods October 2015 Own account self-employment is a Gandhi Jayanthi!Shastri’s birthday! Non-violence Day1 significant source of employment for Elders’ Day! women and men everywhere. In Sub- Bakrid! Duragasthami! Dussehra! Saharan Africa and East and Southeast Asia (excluding China) the percentages Let us celebrate centenary of Achaarya Konda Lakshman Bapuji! of women engaged in own account Let us remember Dr Kurien! employment are higher than those for men: especially in Sub-Saharan Africa People lead their Lives and Livelihoods and therefore, they need to plan for 60 per cent of women engaged in them and decide for them. Indian villages and communities were self-reliant informal employment are own account and self-supporting. They were not interfering with the nature’s ability to heal itself and sustain life/future. Innate volunteerism was present. As the poor workers. (http://wiego.org/) get together in their institutions to serve as platforms for their better lives and livelihoods for a reasonable time to come, they need to be self-reliant, self-supporting and self-organizing. They need to take over today’s activities of the facilitating organizations immediately; they need to have large number (1 per 10 families) of leaders, cadres (paid and unpaid; retained and need- based) with capacities rather than dependent on high cost less relaible professionals from outside; and they need to be supported with less in number but high calibre professionals with abilities of generalist integration, mentoring and being/working with communities. This, referred as communitization, as to be scaled up and extended to local governments, civil society and project staffing. In this context, ‘livelihoods’ has explored ‘Communitization’. Do not forget to read CF Haemendorf’s Classic ’Living Among Indian Tribes’. Supplements included in this month include: Legendary Effort - ‘Lead India’ and Flagship Programme – AMRUT. Usual e-links introduce a video (Soil to Silk – A story of Empowerment of Women through Sericulture), book (Small Farmers in India: Challenges and Opportunities), and value-chain/subsector (Silk and Bamboo Subsector/ Chhattisgarh). Use of flexible operating As ever, pooled up Daily notes for the month as part of the e-livelihoods models or environments for learning course are also presented this month. work. With the faith and hope that you find the issue a useful read, we remain. the ‘livelihoods’ team Latest Livelihoods 2 October 2015 livelihoods Inside ... ‘livelihoods’ team Editor-in-Chief G Muralidhar Focus: Communitization 11 Working Editors B Ramya T Venkateshwarlu Edit Associates V Aravind Kumar 17 K Chayadevi S Laxman Every Month….. K Ramesh M Siddhardha News & Response 4 News From States 5 Kshetram & Sukshetram North Karnataka & Meena 6 walked/ walking with us Perspectives Communitized Convergence 7 T Aparna Gayathri P Mahesh K Bharathi Mansi Koushik Interviews Common Person & Vulnerable Person 8 G Bhargava V Muralidhar Bhima Shankar D Narasimha Reddy Interviews Community Leader & Community Worker 9 Chandranshu Gupta Naval Shaini Interviews Development Worker 10 Dharmendhar T Nirmala Glen Shewcheck LB Prakash Karapa Matsyakara Mandala Mahila Samakhya Development In Action 18 K Krishna Chaithanya M Raja Srinivas (CBO, SO & 4 Training Orgs) Srujanavani P Kishore S Rekha Mukthapur Village Organization - 1 Krishna Murari B Sai Srinivas On Ground MGNREGS 19 M Lavanya K Sridevi (VO Scheme & Facility) Anganwadi Centre B Madhusudhan G Swathi New Livelihoods, Individual P Madhusudhan M Vijaybhasker Vegetable Juices Selling 20 & Collective Enterprises G Madhu Vamsi K Visweswar Rao Story Growth & Stability 21 Life Among Indian Tribes Books (1 Classic & 2 Latest), Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies 22 For Private Circulation only Resources Urban Waste and Sanitation Services With Support From ‘Yoga’kshemam 23 Akshara Livelihoods (ALPL) VCA Silk Value Chain Analysis Subsector Bamboo Subsector Study in Chhattisgarh For enquiries contact: e-links E-Book Small Farmers in India: Challenges and Opportunities AKSHARA Network for Development Support Services, V-Book Soil to Silk - a story of Empowerment of Women HIG II B-25 F-6, APHB Colony, through Sericulture Baghlingampally, Hyderabad - 500044 Mobile: 09951819345 Legendary Effort Lead India www.aksharakriti.org www.livelihoods.net.in Flagship Program AMRUT [email protected] e-livelihoods e– course Capsule No: 124 - 136 learning course livelihoods October 2015 3 Response I have received livelihoods October 2015, supplements and e-course. These are informative. Thanks for sending magazines. Anjaiah Can, digital India eradicate corruption Hyderabad in the country? News Telangana Government Made PPA AP Government Has Signed a MOU with Chhattisgarh for Power: With ONGC: The Telangana government said it The Andhra Pradesh Government has entered into a power purchase signed a Rs. 40,000 crore MoU with the agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh Oil and Natural Gas Corporation for purchasing 1000MW of power. (ONGC) for setting up a LNG Regasification Terminal in Kakinada According to a press release issued UN Adopted the 2030 Agenda for by the Telangana government this is Deep Water Port. The government is Sustainable Development: planning to develop port based in addition to the PPA both the states The 193 Member United Nations economic development. had earlier in November last year for General Assembly formally adopted the 1000MW. "The PPA would be in force AP Set SDRF to Strengthen Disaster 2030 Agenda for Sustainable for the next 12 years. Management: Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals. The UN Sustainable Telangana Government Has Sought Andhra Pradesh, is all set for creation of Development Summit, which kicked off Rs. 25,000 Crore Loan: State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), and wraps up . Adoption of new to strengthen disaster management framework “Transforming Our World: Newly formed state of Telangana, has systems in the state. The force would the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable sought over Rs. 25,000 crore of loans Development”, composed of 17 goals be trained to handle disasters and from the World Bank for development and 169 targets to wipe out poverty. initially would have a battalion of 100 projects, aimed mainly at reviving rural personnel and these personnel would be G-4 Block Demanded Reforms in water bodies, enhancing electricity UNSC: drawn from various forces in the case of generation capacity and increasing disasters in the state. Along, this state The G-4 bloc of India, Japan, Brazil potable water supply. The state, since has also directed officials to create and Germany will give a strong push to inter-governmental negotiations for its formation in June 2014, Telangana District Emergency Operations Centres achieving early United Nations Security has unveiled several projects in the and train Self Help Groups (SHGs) Council (UNSC) reform, summit is areas of minor irrigation, drinking members on handling equipment, to being hosted by India, will be first since water and power generation. respond to local disasters. 2004. 4 October 2015 livelihoods National News News From the States ADB Forecast India’s Economic Growth: was the single reason for half of women for that. Similarly, the study also found that about 27 percent in rural areas India’s economic growth forecast has been lowered by The and 26.4 percent in urban areas reported that they never Asian Development Bank (ADB) to 7.4% for the current attended any educational institution as “education was not fiscal from its earlier estimated for 7.8% citing a weak considered necessary”. This group of men and women, demand and reform delays. As the economic slowdown in never attended any educational institution. 18.2 percent of industrial countries, weak monsoon and stalled action on households in rural areas and 5.9 percent in urban areas, some key structural reforms will see country’s growth for the current fiscal year falling short of earlier estimates. not a single member in the age group of 15 years and Also, that in an update of its flagship annual economic above, who could read and write a simple message with publication Asian Development Outlook 2015, the understanding. multilateral agency also slashed FY17 GDP growth forecast Health Profile 2015 Published: to 7.8% from the March estimate of 8.2%. Every government hospital serves an estimated 61,000 RBI Ordered to Facilitate e-commerce: people in India, with one bed for every 1833 people, new Reserve Bank of India, in order to facilitate e-commerce, official data shows. In undivided Andhra Pradesh, every has permitted banks to enter into pacts with Online government hospital serves over 3 lakh patients while in Payment Gateway Service Providers (OPGSPs) for import Bihar, there is only one bed for every 8800 people. Union payments. Thus, the foreign entities have to open a liaison Minister for Health J.P. Nadda released the National Health office in India, with the approval of RBI before Profile 2015 prepared by the Central Bureau for Health opertionalizing the arrangement with any bank. As the E- Intelligence (CBHI) along with officials of the Ministry, the commerce in India has been growing at a good pace, and Directorate General of Health Services and the CBHI. also driven by affordable smart phones and increasing Every government allopathic doctor serves a population of Internet penetration, this move will ease the transactions. over 11,000 people,