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
- Parallel 1: Changing baskets of consumption in rural areas
Chairperson- Ms. Roda Mehta
Time: 14:30 - 17:00
Venue: Hall 1 - Parallel 2: Social and economic impacts of water harvesting structures
Chairperson: Prof. Tushar Shah
Time: 14:30-17:00
Venue: Hall 2 - Parallel 3: Political Economy of Labour and Migration in India
Chairperson:
Time: 14:30 -17:00
Venue: Seminar Hall
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
- Parallel 4: Gaps in opportunity sets available to rural youth
compared to urban counterparts
Chairperson: Dr. Subhash Deshpande (Gyanprabodhini, Pune)
Moderator : Dr. Sanjiv Phansalkar (VikasAnvesh Foundation, Pune)
Time: 10:45 - 13:15
Venue: Seminar Hall - Parallel 5: Health Impacts of Headload carrying
and other Domestic Chores of Women
Chairperson: Dr. Suresh Kumar
(Ex-Director Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut)
Time: 10:45 - 13:15
Venue: Hall 1 - Parallel 6: Incentives and Motivation for
Women Taking Leadership Roles in Collectives
Chairperson: Prof Debi Prasad Mishra (Ex. Professor, IRMA)
Moderator : Prof Anup Dhar (Professor, Ambedkar University, Delhi)
Time: 10:45 - 13:15
Venue: Hall 2
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)