28th - 30th August, 2018

BAIF Campus, Warje, Pune

Detailed Program Schedule

Time Day 1

28.8.2018

Time

Day 2

29.8.2018

Time

Day 3

30.8.2018

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration & Tea

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Keynote Address

Does the Development Discourse Ignore Women as

Individuals?

09:30 AM -

10:15 AM

Keynote Address

Issues in Agricultural Stagnation in Eastern India

10:00 AM-

10:25 AM Inauguration

10:25 AM-

10:55 AM

Presentation on

Conditions behavior and consequences of

bathing practices of rural women in India

11:00 AM

- 1:30 PM

Theme 1 Current status and barriers to Digital

Inclusion

10:30 AM

- 1:15 PM

Parallel 4 Health

impacts of headload

carrying and other

domestic chores of women

Parallel 5 Gaps in

opportunity sets available to rural youth vis a vis their

Urban counterparts

Parallel 6

Incentives and Motivations for women taking

leadership roles in collectives

10:30 AM

- 1:30 PM

Theme 3

Mainstreaming the Margins

Understanding the issues of the marginalized in the eastern states of India

1:30 PM-

2:30 PM Lunch 1:15 PM-

2:15 PM Lunch 1:30 PM-

2:30 PM Lunch & Wrap Up

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Parallel 1 Political

Economy of Labor and

Migration in India:

Exploring the understudied dimensions of precarity in

work

Parallel 2 Changing baskets of

consumption in rural

areas

Parallel 3 Social and Economic impacts of

water harvesting structures

2:15 PM - 5:15 PM

Theme 2 Whither Social Enterprises?

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Poster Presentations with Tea

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Researching Development and Developing Research

Ideation Workshop on VAF Research agenda for

2018-2019

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Interaction with Social Workers covered in the book Gems of Purest Ray

Serene published by VAF in 2017

Overall Schedule

28th Aug 2018 (Tuesday) : Theme I

Current Status of and barriers to digital inclusion in rural India

11:00 –13:30, Seminar Hall

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Ashank

Desai,

Chairman,

MASTEK

Ltd.

Moderator:

Sanjiv

Phansalkar

Director,

Vikasanvesh

Foundation

11:00 -11:05 Sanjiv Phansalkar Motivation for the study and introducing the researchers

11:05-11:10 Ashank Desai Chairman’s introductory comments

11:10-11:22 Mrinalinee Khanikar

(RGVN, Guwahati) Current status of and barriers to digital inclusion in Rural NE Region

11:25-11:37 Kiran Kumar Sen

(WIPRO Fellow, Bangalore)

Progress towards digital inclusion in rural Gudibande, Chikballapura

District, Karnataka

11:40-11:52 Kishorekumar P.

(Tata Trusts, Hyderabad) Extent of Digital Inclusion in Telangana

11:52-12:05 Vedprakash Gulati

(Tata Trusts, Hyderabad) Digital Financial Inclusion: Overview of shortcomings

12:07-12:20 Aditya Golatkar, Rashmi Diixit-Kale

(L&T Financial Services, AFARM)

Digital Sakhis : Ushering Digital & Financial Inclusion of Rural Women in

Maharashtra

12:23-12:35 Sanjiv Phansalkar Synthesis of studies

12:35-13:20 Open Q&A and contributions from the floor

13:20-13:30 Chairman Chairman’s concluding Comments

1 This session is being organised by Centre for Migration and Labour Solutions, Aajeevika Bureau

28th Aug 2018 (Tuesday): Parallel Session 1

Political Economy of Labour and Migration in India: Exploring the Understudied Dimensions of

Precarity in Work1

14:30 –17:00, Seminar Hall

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Sanjiv

Phansalkar

Director,

Vikasanvesh

Foundation

Moderator:

Amrita

Sharma,

Centre for

Migration and

Labour

Solutions

14:30 -14:40 Sanjiv Phansalkar Introducing the researchers

14:40-15:20 Priyanka Jain and

Amrita Sharma Super-exploitation of Adivasi migrant workers

15:20-15:50 Nivedita Jayaram, Sangeeth

Sugathan, Priyanka Jain Settlements of the un-sedentary

15:50-16:20

Priyanka Jain, Pavitra Mohan,

Rajendra Sharma and

Jibitesh Sahu

Death in divine value chains

16:20-16:50 Nivedita Jayaram and

Sangeeth Sugathan

No City for Migrant Women: Gendered Burdens of Exclusionary Urban

Governance and Discriminatory Labour Markets

16:50-17:00 Sanjiv Phansalkar Concluding Remarks

28th Aug 2018 (Tuesday): Parallel Session II Changing Baskets of Consumption in Rural Areas

14:30 –17:00, Hall 1

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Roda Mehta,

Trustee- Lila

Poonawala

Foundation

14:30-14:35 Archana Chandola

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Welcome Note

14:35-14:45 Roda Mehta Chairman’s introductory note

14:45-15:00 Archana Chandola

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Synthesis Paper-Field work-based studies

15:00-15:20

Benjamin Matthew

Head of Strategy, Partner, MART Global

Management Solutions LLP

Changing Rural Markets: Experiences in Rural Marketing

15:20-15:35

Partha Sarthy Banerjee, Nimisha Katakee,

Suresh Sharma

VAF Research Collaborators

Experiences from field studies: crucial contextual findings

15:35-15:55

Hemant Mehta

Managing Director, at Kantar IMRB and

Chief Strategy Officer, Kantar South Asia

Perspective on Rural consumers: Experiences from Rural Market Research

15:55-16:15 SK Mohanta

Director, Ecociate Consultants Pvt. Ltd Rural Markets, Consumers and Livelihoods

16:15-16:30 Manoj Mishra

VAF, Research Collaborator Consumption Patterns and Scope of Enterprises

16:30-17:00 Roda Mehta Discussion and Concluding Remarks

28th Aug 2018 (Tuesday) : Parallel Session III Social and economic impacts of water harvesting structures

14:30 –17:00, Hall 2

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Tushaar Shah,

Senior

Fellow,

IWMI

Moderator:

Anirban

Ghosh,

ED, TRIF

14:30-14:45 Tushaar Shah Introductory comments

14:45-15:00 Anirban Ghosh Setting the tone

15:00-15:15 Nirmalya Choudhury

TISS, Mumbai Enhancing water, food and income securiy through farm ponds

15:15-15:30 Gyanesh Nanore

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Impact assessment of the Doha Model as a water harvesting structure

15:30-15:45 Kiran Kumar Sen

Wipro Sustainability Seeding Fellow

Impact of water harvesting structures on lives and livelihoods of farmers

in Chikkaballapura district, Karnataka

15:45-16:00 Manisha Shah, Harikrishnan Santosh

IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program Reviving India's tanks to achieve drought resilience

16:00-16:15

Meghna Mukharjee,

Shashank Deora

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts

Synthesis Paper-Field work-based studies

16:15-16:30 Pooja Prasad

IIT, Bombay Working with the government in the water sector

16:30-16:45 Anirban Ghosh Discussion

16:45 - 17:00 Tushaar Shah Concluding Remarks

29th Aug 2018 (Wednesday) : Keynote Address Does the development discourse ignore women as individuals?

Sushma Iyengar, Founder, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan

09:30 –10:15, Seminar Hall

Parallel Session IV

Health impacts of headload carrying and other domestic chores of women

10:30 - 13:00, Seminar Hall

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Suresh Kumar

(Ex-Director

Institute of

Palliative

Medicine,

Calicut)

10:30 -10:40 Abhijeet Jadhav

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Welcome note

10:40-11:00 Spurthi Kolipaka,

Independent researcher Field study from rural Telangana

11:00-11:20 Suma Mujumdar

Research fellow, The Researcher Experiences of women of Sundarbans

11:20-11:40 Piyush Sohani,

Country Manager- Sistema.bio Bio-gas and impact on rural women

11:40-12:00 Executive Officer, Nilkamal Plastics Roll the wheel to drive away the drudgery

12:00-12:20 Abhijeet Jadhav

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Quantitative Study from Udaipur

12:20-12:40 Open Q&A

12:40-13:00 Suresh Kumar Chairman’s concluding Comments

29th Aug 2018 (Wednesday) : Parallel Session V Gaps in opportunity set experienced by Rural Youth and their Urban Counterparts

10:30 - 13:15, Hall 1

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Subhash

Deshpande,

Secretary,

Jnana

Prabodhini,

Pune

Moderator:

Sanjiv

Phansalkar

Director,

Vikasanvesh

Foundation

10:30 -10:35 Sanjiv Phansalkar Motivation for the study and introducing the researchers

10:35-10:40 Subhash Deshpande Chairman’s introductory comments

10:40-10:55 Jaipal Singh Kaushik The inequality of opportunities for Rural and Urban Youth in education

and livelihoods

11:56-11:11 Archana Londhe Opportunity gaps in rural and urban India: Hyderabad and peri-urban

areas

11:12-11:27 Nimisha Kotoki,

Magic Bus, Guwahati

Opportunity Gaps in Rural and Urban India: Tamulpur and Rangia in

Assam

11:28-11: 43 Vaishnavi Pawar

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Studies of opportunity Gaps: South Rajasthan and Mandla

11:43-12:03 Abhijit Kapre Gaps between opportunity sets available to Rural youth vis a vis their

urban counterparts: Osmanabad, Maharashtra

12:05-12:20 Sanjiv Phansalkar

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts Synthesis of the studies

12:20-13:00 Open Q&A and contributions from the house

13:00- 13:15 Subhash Deshpande Chairman’s concluding comments

29th Aug 2018 (Wednesday) : Parallel Session VI

Incentives and Motivations for women taking leadership roles in collectives

10:30 - 13:15, Hall 2

Session Time Speaker Title

Chairperson:

Debi Prasad

Mishra,

Ex-Professor,

Institute of

Rural

Management

Anand

Moderator:

Anup Dhar,

Professor of

Philosophy,

Ambedkar

University

Delhi

10:30 -10:50 Debiprasad Mishra On the relevance of a study on leadership in collectives

10:50-11:10 Bikalp Chamola

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts

Leader as the vanguard of the Poor : Understanding the motives of

leaders in collectives

11:10-11:30 Bhavya Chitrashi,

Ambedkar University Delhi Beyond Leadership: Affective Affinities and the Eka Nari Sanghathan

11:30-11:50 Jaipal Singh Kaushik

Ex COO, RGAVP, Govt. of Rajasthan

Incentives for leaders in collectives : A study of two SHG federations in

Rajasthan

11:50-12:10 Gurpreet Singh

Ambedkar University Delhi

Contemplating ‘leadership’ in models of women empowerment:

thinking of transformative alternatives and possibilities

12:10-12:30

Bikalp Chamola

Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts

Shyam Singh,

Institute of Rural Management Anand

Beyond Leading: Explicating collective leadership in community-based

organizations through Social Network Analysis

12:30-12:50 Sudha Kothari

Founder Chaitanya

Chaitanya: Role in facilitating leadership in collectives in the form of

self-help group , clusters and federations

12:50-13:15 Anup Dhar Concluding discussion and exploring the contours of further research

29th Aug 2018 (Wednesday) : Theme II

Whither Social Enterprises?

14:15 – 17:00, Seminar Hall

Session Title Speakers Affiliation

Reflections from Researchers

Chairperson: Girish Sohani, President, BAIF

Time: 14:30 - 15:45

Motivation for Social Enterprise Research

and a Review Ajit Kanitkar Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts

Research and Knowledge Building on

Social Enterprises: TISS experience Satyajit Majumdar

Professor, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School

of Management and Labour Studies, TISS Mumbai

Incubating Social Enterprises: IRMA

experience Shambu Prasad

Professor, General Management and Coordinator

ISEED

Nine years of Social Entrepreneurship

Conferences: XLRI experience Madhukar Shukla

Chairperson, Fr Arrupe Center for Ecology &

Sustainability and Professor (OB & Strategic Mgt) at

XLRI Jamshedpur

Conclusion and Reflection Girish Sohani President, BAIF, Pune

Social Enterprises in Practice:

Dialogue between Social

Entrepreneurs and Researchers

Chairperson: Manoj Kumar,

Co-Founder and CEO,

Foundation for Innovation and

Social Entrepreneurship (FISE)

Moderator: Ajit Kanitkar (Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata

Trusts)

Time: 15:45 - 17:15

Studying social enterprises

Usha Ganesh Advisor - Consulting & Research at Intellecap,

Mumbai

Tara Nair Professor - Gujarat Institute of Development

Research, Gandhi Nagar

Vanita Vishwanath Board Member of Jagriti and Chairperson of

Aajeevika Bureau.

What is it to be a Social Entrepreneur?

Maruti Chapke and

Anjaney Bhutada

Directors, Fresh Produce Value Creation Services and

Krishi Pragati Foundation, Mumbai

Rangu Rao CEO - Safe Harvest Pvt. ltd, Bengaluru

Conclusion and Reflection Manoj Kumar Co-Founder and CEO, Foundation for Innovation and

Social Entrepreneurship (FISE), Bengaluru

30th Aug 2018 (Thursday) : Keynote Address

Issues in Agricultural Stagnation in Eastern India Avinash Kishore, IFPRI, New Delhi

Chairperson: Biswajit Sen, Ex-Rural Development Specialist, World Bank 9:30 - 10:15, Seminar Hall

Session Time Speaker Title

Understanding

the issues of the

marginalized in

the eastern states

of India

Chairperson:

Biswajit Sen,

Ex-Rural

Development

Specialist, World

Bank

Moderator:

Shilp Verma,

Consulting

Researcher, IWMI

10:30 – 13:30,

Seminar Hall

10:30 – 10:45 Shilp Verma

(Consulting Researcher, IWMI) Managing the Water-Energy-Livelihood Nexus in Eastern India

10:45 – 11:00 Satyendra Nath Mishra

(XIMB, Bhubaneshwar) Challenges to the Natural Resource Management at the Shirui Village in Ukhrul district, Manipur

11:00 – 11:15 Anil Verma

(PRAN, Gaya)

Impact of principles of System of Root Intensification method of Crop cultivation in Paddy crop grown in

Gaya, Bihar

11:15 – 11:30 Nirmalya Choudhury

(TISS, Mumbai) Development Profile of Flood Prone Areas in Eastern India

11:30 – 11:45

Manisha Shah, Sujata Das Chowdhury

Tushaar Shah

(IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program)

Pro-poor Farm Power Policy for West Bengal

11:45 – 12:00

Gyan Prakash Rai , Anup Kumar ,

Rohit Goel

(IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program)

Catalyzing solar irrigation market in North Bihar

12:00 – 12:15 Bikalp Chamola

(Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts)

Small Pumps Big Hopes: An exploratory study to understand the role of small irrigation pumps in

enhancing incomes of small and marginal farmers in eastern states of India

12:15 – 12:30 Victor Lesniewski

(Khetworks) Small Pumps, Big Risks: Testing Prototypes and markets for and with smallholders in East India

12:30 – 12:45 Abhishek Rajan

(IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program) Implementing PMKSY in India’s Eastern Geography

12:45 – 13:30 Summary and Discussion Summary and Discussion