accessdev.org Sitaram Rao Livelihoods Asia Case Study Competition 2015 : ACCESS Development Services

Organization : ACCESS Development Services
Competition Name : Sitaram Rao Livelihoods Asia Case Study Competition 2015

Sitaram Rao Livelihoods Asia Case Study Competition:

The Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition is an effective mechanism for bringing together the collective intellect of the sector that helps to assimilate innovative solutions, breakthroughs, good experiences and best practices.

Competition Last Date : 17th August 2015

It helps practitioners to learn from mutual experiences and felicitates innovators. The Case Study Competition is organized annually around a specific theme, under which entries are solicited, assessed and the 10 best case studies are brought together into a Case Study Compendium that is released at the Livelihoods Asia Summit, and the three best case study authors are felicitated.

Theme:

Pathways to Employability: Lessons for Closing the Skills Gap

With its forecast for the population of India to rise from 1.2 billion in 2010 to almost 1.5 billion in the next twenty years, India will become the world’s most populous country by 2030. Converting this comparative disadvantage to competitive advantage will be the new challenge as also the new opportunity as different countries start to invest in skill development programmes. Leveraging the demographic dividend is a critical consideration and therefore a greater alignment of skill development programmes with the new opportunities is of paramount importance.

Since the job market is biased towards high-skill labour, the creation of jobs for low-skill labour will challenge India. Closing the skill gaps of its qualified workforce will be critical, since labour skill mismatch and shortage could adversely impact India’s economic growth and wage costs. Diversified market led, technology based skills development programmes will need to be invested in to meet up the emerging demand. Given the demographic profile of the region, there is a potential to supply high skilled labour not only within the country but also across the world.

The Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition 2015 invites cases that assess the challenge of building skills and look at ways of skilling India which push industry to new productivity levels. The case should illustrate innovative strategies being adopted in skill development to optimize national and global priorities.

The case study should comprehensively describe the skill development initiative, covering the following:
** Socio-economic conditions and needs of the beneficiaries within which the programme was initiated and implemented
** Nature of skill development intervention, and strategies of the skill development agency
** Impact of the initiative
** Factors that contributed to the success of the programme
** Critical challenges faced and
** Issues in achieving scale and sustainability and efforts made through the initiative to address them

Process:

** All participants are requested to send an abstract of maximum 800 words of their case studies by August 17th, 2015
** Abstracts will be reviewed and a shortlist will be announced on August 24th, 2015
** The shortlisted candidates will be requested to send the full case study, not exceeding 5000 words, by October 12th, 2015
** Once the final cases come in, they will be reviewed and 10 best cases would be selected
** The authors of the 10 best cases will be invited for a presentation before the Jury where the top 3 cases will be selected (tentatively in the first week of November)
** The top 3 case study authors will receive cash prizes and a compendium of the 10 best cases will be released during the Livelihoods Asia Summit 2015

Rules:

** All entries should be submitted in English
** The case study must not exceed 5000 words (excluding tables)The initiative written about in the case should be atleast 3 years in operation
** All entries should be submitted in a word document, with font Times New Roman (size: 12), line spacing (1.5) and margins (1″ on all sides)
** All submitted cases must be accompanied by a scanned or hard copy of the declaration form, with the signature of the authors
** All cases must be based on real life situations
** Applicants should avoid cases already written about extensively
** In the event that the case being documented is based on a practice of any institution/ organization, the applicant must take written permission from the concerned institution/ organization and provide a copy of the same
** The case must be unpublished at the day of submission and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, even in a slightly modified form
** All cases submitted will be the copyright of ACCESS Development Services and may be published as a compendium/ book with due acknowledgement to the author(s)
** All entries will be screened for plagiarism
** The veracity of the cases may be checked
** The decision of the Jury will be final and binding

Timeline:

Last Date for abstract submission – 17th August
Announcement of shortlisted abstracts – 24th August
Last Date for final case submissions – 12th October
Announcement of final selected cases – 23rd October
Jury Meet – November 1st week
Release of Livelihoods India Case Study Compendium and felicitation of winners- 11th December

Contact Us :

Ila T. Bose
Livelihoods Asia Secretariat
ACCESS Development Services
28, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi – 16
ila@accessdev.org
+91-9910402992