Not all our speakers had a PPT presentations. The 15 presentation slides are available here:
http://tinyurl.com/5thNCSE-Presentations
http://tinyurl.com/5thNCSE-Presentations
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012
1. Conference Theme & Purpose
Consider this contemporary scenario in
India:
·
92%
of Indian workforce is in non-formal unorganized sector. Of the 460mn total
workforce in 2004-05, 56.8% were self-employed, 28.9% casual labour, and 14.3%
on regular wages.
·
In
rural India, only 10.8% employed persons belong to regular wage/ salaried
class; 45.7% are self employed, and 43.5% are casual labour.
·
Cities
contribute to more than 60% of national GDP, but between 93-94 and 04-05, the
number of urban poor increase from 40 lakh to 8.1 crores.
·
Over 25 crore rural population (45 million households) in the
country remain locked in poverty. Govt of India estimates rural poverty ratio
of about 42%.
·
While the number of rural people living on less than Rs.50/-(US$1)
a day decreased by 2.9 crores between 1981 and 2005, the number of rural people
living on less than Rs.62.5 ($1.25) a day grew by 3.5 crore during the same
period.
·
According
to NSSO 2000, about 44%of the workers were illiterate, and another 22.7% had
schooling up to primary level.
·
In
the urban area, only about 19.6% of male and 11.2% of female workers possess
“marketable skills” (e.g., masonry, mining, driving, bookbinding, carpentry,
welding, electrical repair, basket making, etc.).
·
In
the rural areas, the percentage of workforce with marketable skills is even
lower: about 10% for male and 6.3% for female.
·
In
some ways, the rural/urban classification is blurred, since rural and peri-urban
populace migrates (seasonally or even daily) to urban areas.
·
Only
2% of the workforce between 15-29 years receives any formal training, while
another 8% receives non-formal training. Overall, only 9% of India’s workforce
is technically trained.
·
The
entire capacity for job training (which itself is obsolete, with inadequate
infrastructure, outdated courses, etc.) in the country is mere 3.1mn per annum,
while every year 12.8mn new entrants join the workforce.
·
It
is estimated that organized sector will need at least 2 ½ times more
technically trained manpower by 2022 than what is available today.
Etc. etc….
If India needs to leverage on, what is
described as its “demographic dividends”, and become a really developed nation
(and not a fractured country – aptly captured in the phrase “India vs. Bharat”), there is a need
for very broad-based humungous efforts.
There are initiatives too (some
emerging some at work since many decades), which aim to address these gaps,
e.g.:
·
National Rural
Livelihood Mission (NRLM) has set out with an agenda to cover 7 Crore BPL
households, across 600 districts, 6000 blocks, 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats and 6
lakh villages in the country through self-managed Self Help Groups (SHGs) and
federated institutions and support them for livelihoods collectives in a period
of 8-10 years.
·
NRLM
also seeks to promote: "...promotion of innovation, social enterprise/ social
entrepreneur and public, private and community partnership (PPCP) (for)...
development of a new product or new model of service delivery to address
challenges faced by the rural poor... Successful innovative ideas are then
scaled-up using an enterprise approach i.e., social enterprise... for
replication and scaling-up in the Mission districts and blocks."
·
Recognizing
this hurdle, in 2008-09, GOI’s National Skill Development Mission had endorsed
a vision to create 500mn skilled workers by 2022.
·
As
an offshoot, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has taken the
mandate to create 150mn technically trained manpower through Public-Private-Partnership
(PPP), and funding/ supporting social entrepreneurial ventures (about 80+ so
far)
·
…
and of course, there have been so many impactful grassroot NGO/ social
entrepreneurial initiatives since many decades who have made an impact in their
served communities – and there is so much to learn from their experience…
That’s the rationale/ purpose of this
conference!... to bring them all together on a same platform – To learn from
the innovations and benchmarks, and to facilitate partnerships:
2. Conference Design & Schedule
The conference design will entail the
following panel sessions, where social entrepreneurs/ development sector
professionals will share their experiences, issues and challenges:
·
Strengthening the Grassroot
Capabilities: Challenges & Opportunities
·
Promoting Livelihoods: Benchmarks
from NGO experience
·
Skilling India: Achieving Scale and Impact
·
Creating Livelihoods in Rural India
·
Tackling Livelihood Challenges of
Urban Poor
·
Promoting Livelihoods for Rural Women
·
Harnessing Invisible Talent: People
with Disabilities
·
Ecosystem
Support Agencies to Livelihood Promotion
3. Venue & Participation Fee
The venue of
the Conference is:
Fr
Prabhu Hall
Learning Centre
XLRI
CH Area (East)
Jamshedpur 831 001 (India)
The
registration for the conference will start at 10.00am on January 25th,
2013, and the conference will conclude at 13:00pm on January 27th,
2013.Learning Centre
XLRI
CH Area (East)
Jamshedpur 831 001 (India)
Conference Fee:
4. Speakers/ Resource Persons
Confirmed Speakers (Dec 7th, 2012):
Founder & Chairman
HarVa
Executive
Director
CEO
JEEViKA/ BRLPS
CEO & Managing Director
LabourNet
Dr Joe MadiathGram Vikas
Executive Director
Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation
Executive Director
PRADAN
CEO & Founder
TeamLease
Founder-CEO
Jobs4Youth
Founder& Managing Trustee
Saath
Managing Director
Empower Pragati
Avani
Coordinator
Livelihoods-MANTHAN
Co-Founder
v-shesh
Sr Rural Development Specialist
World Bank
Suryamani Roul
Sr Vice President
ACCESS Development Services
Managing Director & CEO
B-Able
Vice-Dean
The Livelihood School
Managing Trustee & CEO
SRIJAN
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