MANTHAN partners are engaged with State Rural

Livelihood Missions (SRLMs) in nine states in

different capacities that include contributing to

State Project Implementation Plans (SPIPs),

helping in recruitment and regularization of SRLM

professionals, linking SRLMs with corporate

entities, workshop on governance issues for CEOs

of SRLMs, and orientation & training of Young

Professionals.

MANTHAN constantly works together with the

SRLMs by contributing to ongoing programmes

and in advisory and handholding roles with state

and district livelihood mission units. The consortium

also interacts with NMMU (National Mission

Monitoring Unit) & World Bank team associated

with NRLM to seek inputs and explore synergies.

Chaitanya, Pune

Xavier Institute of Management

Bhubaneswar

XLRI School of Business and Human

Resources, Jamshedpur

The Livelihood School, Hyderabad

Tata Institute of Social Sciences,

Mumbai

Management Development Institute,

Gurgaon

Indian Institute of Management,

Udaipur

Entrepreneurship Development

Institute of India, Gandhinagar

MANTHANlivelihoods

Livelihoods MANTHAN seeks to co-create

knowledge and strengthen the livelihoods

ecosystem in India through collaboration,

networking and partnerships.

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Strategic & Advisory Support

The Consortium

A serious lacuna of emerging development domains in India is the insufficient engagement by the academia in knowledge creation and field building activities. The increasing demand for qualified livelihood professionals in India by the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), civil society organisat ions and phi lanthropic foundations has created a context for knowledge co-creation by academicians and practitioners to meet this challenge.

A group of higher education institutions co l laborated to map human resource requirements of State Rural Livelihood Missions in 2011. Livelihoods MANTHAN emerged out of this felt need for strategic and need based support for livelihood promotion in India.

MANTHANlivelihoods

http://livelihoods-manthan.tk

Xavier Institute of ManagementXavier Square, Bhubaneswar 751 013

Phone: +91-674-6647-720 / 740Email: manthanlive@ximb.ac.in

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To State Rural Livelihood Missions

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Networking & Knowledge

PlatformsFor a vibrant livelihoods ecosystem

The consortium is involved in design of curriculum

to address the training needs of livelihood

p ro fes s iona l s i n Ind ia fo r cont inuous

improvement. This is facilitated through:

· Workshop on Rethinking Livelihood Curricula

with Academic Institutions

· Training/Curriculum for District Managers of

SRLMs

· Certificate course on livelihoods for youth to

work in rural areas

· Livelihood management modules for

federation managers, farmer interest groups

& community resource persons

Some of the customized training programmes

being offered are on:

· Leadership & Behavioural Skills

· Livelihood Mapping Exercises

· Conducting subsector studies

· Managing micro enterprises

· Monitoring & evaluation frameworks

· Capacity building using statistical software

· Gender equity in livelihoods promotion

Curriculum Design &

Training programmesFor officials and professionals

The Mission

Livelihoods MANTHAN's nation-wide network

provides vibrant knowledge platforms (virtual and

physical) to build a community of practice on

livelihoods.

This is facilitated through an electronic group

(Livelihoods Learning Group) which enables

networking with stakeholders in the livelihoods

ecosystem. While enhancing knowledge flows,

the group also helps design workshops and

discussions for building the capacities of

livelihoods professionals in India. A Rural Lvielihood

Internship (RLI) programme has enabled the

placement of students with SRLMs across India

and is being expanded in its second year of

operation.

MANTHAN is also involved in building a livelihoods

knowledge compendium, conducting sharing

sessions on topics relevant for livelihoods

promot ion, organis ing wr i te-shops and

documenting livelihood cases, and creation &

dissemination of digital media.

Livelihoods MANTHAN (Management Academic

institutes Network for Transforming Human

resources through Action and Knowledge)

provides a dynamic platform for academics,

practitioners and livelihood promoting agencies to

work together for a vibrant livelihoods ecosystem in

India. The consortium is coordinated by the Xavier

Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB).

The consortium has been involved in the following

broad activities since mid 2012:

· Offering customized orientation, management

development & training programmes

· Designing curriculum and certificate courses

for officials of state livelihood missions

· Networking among management institutions

to reposition their offerings on livelihoods

· Creating open source learning & sharing

platforms for resources on livelihoods in India

and

· Providing strategic support to state livelihood

missions

MANTHAN partners have since worked together

with the State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs) in

various states.