livelihoods today and tomorrow October 2013 LEGENDS ORGANIZATIONS B M O Major O O V Influences I K in 25 Years E S S INTERVENTIONS TECHNOLOGIES Double Dozen in 12 Years! - 11 livelihoods October 2013 More than 70 million people have been forced to leave their homes because of conflict, political upheaval and Mahatma is on the mind! disasters, as well as by climate Telangana continues to inch forward! change and development Cyclone followed by Floods! projects. (From International Election Processes are on in 5 states! Red Cross, Report 2012) Sachin announces retirement from Cricket! Tallest statue of Sardar Patel is unveiled! We have been influenced various people, organizations, interventions, technologies, books, films, etc. Some of them have major influences on us in general and the lives and livelihoods of the poor in particular. In this context, ‘livelihoods’ has explored ‘Major influences’ over the last 25 years as a special issue. From this issue, ‘livelihoods’ has started a second supplement on ‘legends’. This time, ‘Legend’ introduces ‘Gandhi’. ‘How to’ supplement discusses ‘How to do Microplanning?’ Usual e-links introduce a video (Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture), book (Small Business Management Skills), LEAP (Bhimulavari Palem), value-chain/subsector (pot making/jute), and tenth issue (Social Entrepreneurs) of e-livelihoods learning course. With the faith and hope that you find the ‘major influences’ a useful read, In rural areas, youth skills and the additions/modifications in the ‘livelihoods’ are useful, we remain. and capacities aren’t fully mapped by the government the ‘livelihoods’ team agencies or development organizations. Latest ‘livelihoods’ Supplements e-course 2 October 2013 livelihoods Inside ... ‘livelihoods’ team Editor-in-Chief G Muralidhar Working Editors B Ramya Focus : T Venkateshwarlu Edit Associates K Krishna Chaithanya S Laxman Every Month….. K Ramesh M Siddhardha News & Response 4 Legends 5 walked/ walking with us Organizations 8 T Aparna Gayathri P Mahesh K Bharathi Mansi Koushik Perspective Double Dozen in 12 Years 11 G Bhargava V Muralidhar Bhima Shankar D Narasimha Reddy Chandranshu Gupta Naval Shaini Books 12 Dharmendhar T Nirmala Glen Shewcheck LB Prakash Technologies 15 P Kishore M Raja Srinivas Krishna Murari S Rekha Interventions 17 M Lavanya B Sai Srinivas B Madhusudhan K Sridevi Schemes 19 P Madhusudan M Vijaybhasker G Madhu Vamsi K Visweswar Rao Movies 20 Resource & Story 22 For Private Circulation only ‘Yoga’kshemam 23 LEAP Bhimulavaari Palem VCA Pot Making Sub-sector Jute For enquiries contact: e-links AKSHARA Network for Development e-book Small Business Management Skills Support Services, v-book Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture HIG II B-25 F-6, APHB Colony, Baghlingampally, Hyderabad - 500044 Capsule 10: Environment: Mobile: 09951819345 e– course http://www.livelihoods.net.in/e-course/e-course-capsule-10-environment www.aksharakriti.org www.livelihoods.net.in [email protected] Supplement; How to do How to do Micro Planning: http://www.livelihoods.net.in/document/how-do-micro-planning Supplement: Legend Mahatma Gandhi: http://www.livelihoods.net.in/document/mahatma-gandhi livelihoods October 2013 3 Response Received ‘livelihoods’ September, supplement and Can model school system e-course material. These are very useful. RAPELLY VENKATESH, Share Rural Development Society (SRDS) provides universal education with quality? News Rs. 517 Crore for AP Poverty Move to Prevent PDS Leakages: To Alleviation: The Ministry of Rural prevent leakages in the public development has approved an annual distribution system, the Union plan outlay of Rs.517.27 crore for government has decided to allow the 2013-14 for Andhra Pradesh under its States to construct intermediary Ajeevika programme for improving godowns under the Mahatma Gandhi the livelihoods of the poor. This was National Rural Employment Guarantee informed to Chief Minister by Union Act (MGNREGA) for storage of grains. Minister of Rural Development. AP For this, the Rural Development Ministry has mobilised more than 100 lakh will provide Rs. 450 crore in the first World Bank Supports Reconstruction women from rural areas into 10.50 and Livelihoods: The World Bank’s phase for the creation of a capacity of 15 lakh SHGs and all the villages in the Board of Executive Directors approved lakh tonnes. State have been covered with SHG two grants totaling US$25 million to federation. Rs. 717 Crore Sanctioned For the Government of Samoa to help ‘14,378 Acres Identified for Drinking Water Projects, Tamil Nadu: rebuild critical roads and bridges and to restore agricultural and fishery Distribution’: The East Godavari Chief Minister allocated Rs. 717.32 crore livelihoods for thousands of district administration has identified for integrated drinking water projects in subsistence farmers whose crops and 14,378 acres of land to distribute to Tiruppur, Erode, Thanjavur and farms were damaged during Tropical 9,064 families that have been Coimbatore districts. According to an Cyclone Evan (TCE). The first grant identified as landless during the official release, the projects were will provide US$20 million under the seventh round of land distribution conceived as part of the emphasis on Enhanced Road Access Project to programme organised at the State- supply of protected drinking water. Ten repair roads and bridges damaged by level. Collector said that survey and lakh people in the four districts would TCE and to upgrade, rehabilitate and sub-division had already been reconstruct existing road infrastructure benefit from the projects. Bulk of the completed for 8,000 acres of land and to strengthen its resilience to climate allocation, Rs.495.70 crore, is towards the works were in progress for the change and extreme weather events remaining land that had been the integrated drinking water project in The second grant of US$5 million is identified for distribution. Thanjavur district. for the Agriculture and Fisheries . 4 October 2013 livelihoods Legends Amartyasen Anil Sadgopal A distinguished economist and Nobel laureate Dr. Anil Sadgopal, social educationist is striving Amartya Sen is known as "the Conscience and to reshape the education milieu so that the Mother Teresa of Economics" for his work elementary education will be recognized as a on famine, human development theory, welfare fundamental right. He established the Kishore economics, the underlying mechanisms of Bharathi Center for Rural Development and poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism. With Education along with a group of like minded people. The lots of hard work and effort, he succeeded in making objective is to encourage the community to avail their rights significant changes to the contemporary world. and entitlements. Anna Hazare Baba Amte Anna Hazare desire to live beyond his narrow Baba Amte inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and self interest drove him to seek voluntary followed the principles of Gandhism for the rest of retirement from the army and come back to his life and led a Spartan life. Baba Amte serve his own village. Immediately after, about relentlessly worked in the service of the neglected 60 small bunds, check dams, trenches and and poor. His compassion for the leprosy afflicted people percolation ponds were built in the village. Soon they were knew no bounds. He shared the sufferings of the tribals and raising three crops a year. “Gram Sabha” whereby the farmers who had excess grain were to voluntarily donate stood by them. He worked for India living in unity and grain to the "Grain Bank" Along with it, he undertook a peace. He set up weekly clinics to take care of the patients. massive tree plantation drive. All these efforts graduated to setting up of Anandwan, Banda Vasudev Rao Bunker Roy The National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), as Bunker Roy is the man behind Barefoot it exists today, was the result of much hard work and College – the only college in India built by the foresight of Banda Vasudev Rao. He travelled across rural poor for the rural poor. In 1971, he the country, organizing over 300 meetings with found the “Barefoot College” in Tilonia. He groups, individuals, and traders. He devoted his life towards coined the term ‘barefoot professionals’ to mean the growth and modernization of Indian poultry production, transforming it from a backyard activity into a vibrant industry. indigenous and traditional knowledge leaders in poor Driven by science and technology, the poultry industry is one communities. Millions of people in India live and work of the most powerful engines for growth of rural economy in barefoot; but the title is also used as a symbol of respect India, supporting the livelihood of over 2.0 million people. for the knowledge that the poor have. C K Prahalad Elinor Ostorm The internationally renowned management guru, Elinor Ostorm has stood on the side of these poor corporate strategist and thought leader, C K to challenge the conventional wisdom and to ar- Prahalad, as a management consultant to some gue that the CPRs can be successfully managed of the top multinational corporations in the world, by the users themselves without any government as a teacher in shaping up the minds of students from prestigious colleges around the world, as a writer who regulation or privatization. She became the first influenced the thoughts of many in the government, for-profit woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. and not-for-profit sectors equally, as a thinker of those at the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Ostrom's bottom of the pyramid, Prahalad’s contribution is simply 'research brought this topic from the fringe to the forefront of remarkable and in many ways irreplaceable. scientific attention. Father Vincent Ferrer Father Michal Van Den Bogaert Father Vincent Ferrer laid the foundation of Father Michael Van den Bogaert was an Rural Development Trust (RDT). With their educator, an activist, a visionary and above all combined qualities, dreaming of helping a builder of institutions.