VikasAnvesh Foundation

VikasAnvesh Foundation

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DAY 1
28 August 2018

Registration 9.30-10.00

Inauguration
Chief Guest: Ms. Shantha Sinha, Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

Title: Conditions, Behaviour and Consequnces of Bathing Practices of Rural Women in India
Speaker: Ms. Meghna Mukherjee, VikasAnvesh Foundation

Tea 11:00 – 11:15

Title: Current status and barriers to digital inclusion in rural NER
Speaker: Mrinalinee Khanikar
Affiliation: Rastriya Grameen Vikas Nidhi, Guwahati

Title: Extent of Digital Inclusion in Telangana
Speaker: Kishore Kumar
Affiliation: Tata Trusts, Hyderabad

Title: Progress towards digital inclusion in rural Gudibande, Chakballapur
Speaker: Kiran Sen
Affiliation: Bangalore

Title: Digital Financial inclusion: overview of shortcomings
Speaker: VP Gulati
Affiliation: Tata Trusts, Hyderabad

Title: Experience of promoting digital literacy among women
Speaker: AFARM team
Affiliation: AFARM, Pune

Title: Synthesis of studies on Digital Inclusion from various States
Speaker: Sanjiv Phansalkar
Affiliation: VAF, Pune

Lunch 13:45 – 14:30

Parallel sessions

Title: Synthesis Paper-Field based study
Speaker: Archana Chandola

Title: Experiences of MART Rural
Speaker: Benjamin Matthew
Affiliation: Head of Strategy, Partner, MART Global Management Solutions LLP

Title: Experiences of MART Rural
Collaborators: Parthasarthy, Nimisha, Suresh Sharma

Title: Experience from Market Research Industry
Speaker: Hemant Mehta
Affiliation: Managing Director, at Kantar IMRB and Chief Strategy Officer, Kantar South Asia.

Title: Rural Markets Research-Practitioner viewpoint
Speaker: SK Mohanta
Affiliation: Director, Ecociate Consultants Pvt. Ltd

Title: Study-Consumption and Enterprises
Speaker: Manoj Mishra

Title: Impact of water harvesting structures on lives and livelihoods of farmers in Chikkaballapura district, Karnataka
Speaker: Kiran Kumar Sen
Affiliation: Wipro Sustainability Seeding Fellow

Title: Reviving India’s tanks to achieve drought resilience
Speaker: Manisha Shah
Affiliation: IWMI-TATA Project

Title: Findings from the multi-location impact assessment of water-harvesting structures
Speaker: Meghna Mukharjee
Affiliation: VAF

Title: Working with the Maharashtra government on Jalayukta-Shivar
Speaker: Pooja Lodha
Affiliation: IITB

Poster Presentations
Time: 17:00 – 17:30
Venue: Foyer

Gems of Purest Ray Serene
(About 15 of the 22 remarkable social workers profiled in the book “Gems of Purest Ray Serene” will be gracing the occasion)

DAY 2
29 August 2018

Title: Does the Development Discourse Ignore Women as Individuals?
Speaker: Shushma Iyengar

Tea 11:00 – 11:15

Parallel sessions

Title: Opportunity Gaps in Rural and Urban India: two districts of Assam
Speaker: Nimisha Barkotoki
Affiliation: Magic Bus, Guwahati

Title: The inequality in opportunities for rural and urban youth in Rajasthan
Speaker: Jaipal Singh Kaushik
Affiliation: Jaipur

Title: Opportunity gaps experienced by rural youth in Telangana
Speaker: Archana Londhe
Affiliation: Hyderabad

Title: Synthesis of Studies on Opportunity Gaps from Various States
Speaker: Sanjiv Phansalkar
Affiliation: VAF, Pune

Title: Experiences of women of Sundarban
Speaker: Suma Mujumdar
Affiliation: Research fellow, The Researcher

Title: Field study from rural Telangana
Speaker: Spurthi Kolipaka
Affiliation: Independant researcher

Title: Quantitative Study from Udaipur
Speaker: Abhijeet Jadhav
Affiliation: Senior researcher, VAF

Title: Roll the wheel to driver away the drudgery
Speaker: Executive Officer
Affiliation: Nilkamal Plastics

Title: Bio-gas and impact on rural women
Speaker: Executive Officer
Affiliation: Bio-Systema

Title: Understanding leadership in Collectives
Speaker: Bikalp Chamola
Affiliation: VikasAnvesh Foundation

Title: Incentives and Motives for leaders in Collectives
Speaker: Jaipal Singh Kaushik
Affiliation: Ex COO of Rajasthan State Livelihood Mission

Title: Social Network Analysis: An approach to understand leadeship
Speaker: Bikalp Chamola
Affiliation: VikasAnvesh Foundation

(Will update)

Lunch 13:45 – 14:30

Title: Motivation for Social Enterprise Research and a Review*
Speaker: Dr. Ajit Kanitkar

Title: Research and Knowledge Building on Social Enterprises:TISS expereince*
Speaker: Prof. Satyajit Majumdar
Affiliation: Professor, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship , School of Management and Labour Studies

Title: Incubating Social Enterprises: IRMA experience*
Speaker: Prof. Shambhu Prasad
Affiliation: Professor, General Management: Strategy and Policy

Title: Nine years of Social Enterpreneurship Conferences and Awards:XLRI expereince*
Speaker: Prof. Madhukar Shukla
Affiliation: Chairperson, Fr Arrupe Center for Ecology & Sustainability and Professor (OB & Strategic Mgt) at XLRI Jamshedpur

Title: Studying social enterprises
Speaker: Ms.Usha Ganesh
Affiliation: Advisor – Consulting & Research at Intellecap
Speaker: Prof. Tara Nair
Affiliation: Professor – Gujarat Institute of Development Research
Speaker: Dr. Vanita Vishwanath
Affiliation: Board Member of Jagriti and Chairperson of Aajeevika Bureau.

Title: What is it to be a Social Enterpreneur?
Speaker: Mr. Maruti Chapke and Mr. Anjaney Bhutada
Affiliation: Directors, Fresh Produce Value Creation Services and Krishi Pragati Foundation
Speaker:Mr. Rangu Rao
Affiliation: CEO – Safe Harvest Pvt. ltd

Tea 17:15 – 17:30

Researching Development and Developing Research
Ideation Workshop on VAF Research Agenda for 2018-2019

DAY 3
30 August 2018

Issues in Agricultural Stagnation in Eastern India

Tea 10:30 – 10:45

Understanding the issues of the marginalised in the eastern states of India
(Will be updated soon)

Lunch and wrap up 13:30 -14:30