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18 July 2023 | Bhopal
The New Village
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Opening Thoughts for Rural Renaissance
The Inaugural Session sets the context of MP Rural Colloquy 2023 conclave and theme of Rural Renaissance. Explores directional vision and public narrative towards a hopeful and actionable renaissance agenda quality education for all, universal access to healthcare, economic growth, jobs, and resilient environment. The speakers will put their key notes on the roadmap which largely built upon the 4 critical horizons, state led fiscal expenditure through strengthened local self-governance for flourishing of rural localities; investing on rural community for augmentation of their skill sets/abilities to drive change in their localities; in the context of depleting biological resources, prosperity models need to evolved along with generating place based alternatives/avenues for jobs, employment, promotion of enterprises, which are at par with aspiration of rural youth; access to investments for rural community through financial institutions.
- 10:45 AM - 1:00 AM
Deep Dive to a Billion Dreams
Rural communities in India are undergoing significant transformations, shaped by various factors such as socio-economic changes, technological advancements, and environmental challenges. As these communities evolve, it becomes crucial to gain a deeper understanding of their aspirations and develop strategies to support their growth and development. The session brings together rural communities, donors, policy makers, development practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders to foster knowledge exchange, collaboration, and develop actionable strategies to support evolving rural community aspirations.
- 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Climate Adaptive Rural Prosperity: High Income Livelihood Models
Uncertainties associated with climate variability poses great risks to the economic systems all over the world. With over 72 million people directly and indirectly dependent on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, forests, fisheries and natural resources for their livelihoods, Madhya Pradesh can be highly vulnerable to the risks of climate change. Shifting the energy and extractives socio-economic system to circular and integrating resource-efficient models could be the balancing way forward towards environment & rural prosperity both. The expert panel would uncover the ground realities and challenges, policy offerings, strategies and technologies for climate change adaptation.
- 1:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Unlocking Yuva Shakti for Atmanirbhar MP
With a young population of 20 million, Madhya Pradesh has a unique opportunity to harness the energy and capabilities of its youth to propel its economy and move towards self-sufficiency. However, harnessing this demographic dividend requires a comprehensive place-based approach with an inclusive and empowering ecosystem that nurtures innovation, entrepreneurship, education, and holistic development of the youth. The expert deliberations will explore strategies, challenges, and opportunities to empower the youth and unleash youth energy for a self-sufficient Madhya Pradesh.
- 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Lunch 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm with active Gallery
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The New Village Habitat Transformation: Whole of Govt. & Citizen Actions for Regenerative Development
More than 72% of the population in Madhya Pradesh lives in rural areas. Despite initial expectations of workforce migration to industries, a large population is still residing in rural areas with limited access to human development services. While villages are often seen as a cultural and communal framework, their habitation has been evolving haphazardly with minor adjustments to changing administration and governance structures. This insightful session will explore the complex evolving dynamics of rural-urban transition in the state and its impact on rural habitat. Experts will help us understand village as a context and habitat, examining how the increased demand for human development, civic services and improved public delivery of amenities is going to change how rural India lives. The panel will also throw light on the evolving Whole of Govt. approach suffixed with Citizen Actions and how this could be instituted as localized convergent/compact forum where PRIs along with CBOs and Local Administration are effortful for “Flourishing Localities”.
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Concluding Session
Summary Take Aways & Way Forward Points from all four session
Vote for Thanks & Valedictory of eminent Invitees
Vote for Thanks & Valedictory of eminent Invitees
- 5:30 PM
High Tea 5:30 pm
- 6:30 - 8:00 PM
- 8th August, 2021 Sunday
Transforming Opportunities and Quit Poverty| Society, State & Markets
NN Sinha, Hari Menon, N Srinath*, Anurag Behar, in conversation with Isabel Guerrero
Over the last 75 years, there has been a significant impact driven by civil society organizations, the government, and the rural community themselves in addressing deprivations in rural India through poverty alleviation programmes. However, there are wide disparities across the nation due to diversity that exists within various geographies, cultural and social contexts. In rural India, particularly in the villages of Central and East India, these challenges are further exacerbated by abject poverty and intersectionality of hierarchies especially in tribal, Dalit and other historically marginalised communities. A girl child born in rural India is two generations behind her sister in urban India and this gap continues in her lifetime. Illuminaries in the sector reflect on the opportunities that exist and the pathways needed to break the vicious poverty cycle.
A grassroots foundation, deeply focused on challenges faced by marginalized communities and in particular of women in the bottom 100,000 villages of India. We bring a deep knowledge and an inventory of working solutions for stranded India and mechanisms for scaling-up those solutions.