Abhyudaya- Development and Public Policy Club of IRMA

17/10/2020

Greetings from Abhyudaya :)

As part of The Policy Forum series, Abhyudaya presents an interactive webinar on Public Policy and Regulation for enhancing outcomes in the skilling ecosystem in India.
Our speakers are Lav Bharadwaj (Public Policy Consultant, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt of India and NCVET) and Anupama Tripathi (Manager KPMG, Consultant DFID Skill Development). With wide experience in the field, the speakers are going to share valuable insights on public policy and regulations of skill development in India. Please be a part of the session for more insights.

Date: 18-10-2020
Timings: 2:00 PM onwards

14/07/2020

Abhyudaya is conducting a session on Corporate sustainability: Striving for the triple bottom line.
Shivam Batra is a practitioner in the field of corporate sustainability. In the session, he will be discussing about sustainability, circular economy, reverse logistics and the new normal.

Follow the links for more information:

Company link: https://wearesynergie.com

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivam-batra-9183a449

15/05/2020

Here is the speakers list for week 02:

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
THE NEW NORMAL
WEEK 02

We are happy to present the following as our distinguished speakers for the second week of our webinar series:

SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: THE NEW TREND

MR. JOHN AGGREY
Founder & CEO
Hired Consult
Ghana

THE VIRULENT SPREAD OF CLIMATE ACTION

MR. JOHN LEO ALGO
Program Manager
Living Lau Datu Si
Philippines

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS: ARE WE REALLY PREPARED?

MR. TAMA MONDAY YARI
Continental President
Great Minds Empire Africa
Nigeria

Moderator:

MS. SHARMAINE LIZADA
Director-General
GREENducation Philippines
Philippines

WE KNOW YOU ARE AS EXCITED AS WE ARE!

To register as a participant for week 02, you may access the registration form here:
bit.ly/SDTNNweek02

LET'S ALL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE!

15/05/2020

Tama Monday Yari is an economy analyst, youth advocate, and a business development professional.

Tama Monday Yari obtained his Degree in Economics under full scholarship by Biode Pharmaceutical Industries at Wellspring University. He is also Certified Incident Management System on Health Sector Emergency Response Management by the World Health Organisation, a Certified Trainer in Office Administration (DVT) by Chambers of Commerce and Industry Giesen-friedberg Germany in conjunction with Nigeria Chambers of Commerce, a Certified Public Procurement Professional (CPPP) by the World Bank Institute, and Certified Project Management by Skilledge, to mention but a few.

Tama Monday is also an Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Customer Relationship Management (CICRM), Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM), and Unicaribbean Business School Nigeria.

Tama Monday has chaired several disaster consultation series for African Union Youth Envoy, The CEO's Roundtable, Great minds Empire Africa etc and has participated on several disaster control conferences by Africa Youth Advisory Board on Disaster Risk Control.

He also serves as the GMD/CEO of Mitam Industries International LTD, the fastest growing ICT, Oil & Gas and Real Estate Company in Nigeria, C.E.O of Tamons Food Nig LTD INDIGENOUS Food Production and Processing company in Nigeria, Co-founder of The CEO's Roundtable, and a Convener of a continental cross-border youth platform Great Minds Empire Africa.

09/05/2020

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
THE NEW NORMAL
WEEK 01

Speaker 03:
Argel B. Masanda, RPm, RGC
Assistant Professor VI
Central Luzon State University
Philippines

Prof. Masanda is a Registered Guidance Counselor and a Registered Psychometrician and currently an Asst. Prof. IV and one of the University Guidance Counselors of Central Luzon State University, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija where he also finished his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 2009 and Master of Science in Guidance and Counseling in 2014. Currently, he is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Psychology major in Forensic Psychology at Far Eastern University, Manila City. He is a researcher with 8 publications in national and international high impact peer-review journals, and author of a 2-volume comprehensive reviewer book for psychometricians, and a prominent resource speaker with over a hundred engagements in psychology and related fields across the country and abroad. He is also a recipient of several major accolades within his 11 short years of professional experience.

09/05/2020

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
THE NEW NORMAL
WEEK 01

Speaker 01:
Commissioner Dexter A. Galban, MBA, RN, RBP
Commission on Population and Development
Philippines

Comm. Galban is a physician-in-training, a registered nurse, and a registered business professional with a Masters in Business Administration.

A public health advocate, corporate trainer, motivational speaker, and NGO adviser, he is one of 12 international Youth Power Panelists of Restless Development and Project Everyone. Among the Top 5 Future Professionals 2016 of the U.S. Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative and SDG 3 Youth Champion 2018 of The 2030 Project, he serves as a National Director of the 2030 Youth Force Philippines, consultant of Health Care Without Harm – Asia, and CEO of Alaga Health.

08/05/2020

As a part of our partnership with Global Institute for Youth Development, we are happy to present the first live session with the focus area as People.
The distinguished speakers for the first week of webinar series:

Speaker 1:

Comm. Dexter A. Galban, MBA, RN, RBP, FRIN (confirmed)
Commissioner and Board Member
Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) under the National Economic & Development Authority (NEDA), Philippines

Topic: Stress management

Speaker 2:

Ms. Rosario Diaz Garavito (confirmed)
Founder & Executive Director
The Millennials Movement
Peru

Topic: Beating Abject Poverty post Covid-19
Speaker 3:

Prof. Argel Masanda, RPm, RGC (confirmed)
Assistant Professor VI, Central Luzon State University,Philippines

Topic: Taking care of our Mental health.





As registrations are already closed for the first week of the webinar series, we will be sharing the live stream on our page. Please follow Global Institute for Youth Development for more updates.

07/05/2020

With the aim of mainstreaming sustainable development amidst the health crisis we are currently experiencing, Abhyudaya in partnership with the Global Institute for Youth Development, Inc., will be holding a month-long webinar series dubbed as "Sustainable Development: the New Normal".

The webinar series, to be held every Saturday this month of May, 2020, 4:00 PM onwards will be featuring industry and civil society leaders from around the world to discuss pressing challenges brought on by Covid-19, and to encourage the youth to continue advocating for the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals amidst the adversities we are currently faced with.

Links for webinar will be shared soon.

26/04/2020

Join us for a session on "CREATING SUSTAINABLE AGRARIAN LIVELIHOODS IN RURAL INDIA" by Mayank Jain on 26 April 2020 at 5 PM.

Mayank will be speaking about SumArth's C-R-E-A-T-E Model of development.

Here is a link for meeting : https://meet.google.com/mbr-zjqf-rpn

24/04/2020

Abhyudaya presents a session in collaboration with Global Shapers Community, Patna Hub on "CREATING SUSTAINABLE AGRARIAN LIVELIHOODS IN RURAL INDIA" by Mayank Jain on 26 April 2020 at 5 PM.
Register here : https://forms.gle/aLBZ5z7vPagMkMuy5

Mayank Jain, graduated from NSIT, previously worked as an IP professional is a serial social entrepreneur working in the domain of Agriculture, Agritech and Engineering.
He runs his social enterprise SumArth, a not-for-profit based out of Gaya working with more than 10000 farmers and believes in using engineering for societal change. He works in ensuring sustainable agrarian livelihoods for farmers. As a grassroot innovator, he has developed two brands along with deploying and testing more than 8 technologies on ground.

Meeting ID and details will be shared soon.
We hope that you will join us for the session!

17/02/2020

Discussion on various nuances of establishing Solar co-operative projects operated by farmers. It has initially experimented in a small village (Dhundi) in Anand district. It was further replicated to other villages and these Solar cooperatives with help of IWMI and NDDB made it possible to generate electricity through solar and were able to sell the surplus creating options of livelihoods to the marginal farmers.
Gujarat state government adopted this model in the scheme named Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY). In the Union Budget 2020, Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthan Mahaabhiyan (KUSUM) scheme has been announced which is inspired by these experiments on solar cooperatives in Gujarat with a budget an outlay of 34,422 Crore.
A team led by Prof. Dr. Tushar Shah from IWMI played key role in designing model – Solar Lift Irrigation of the project and implemented it to success.
We are happy to host Prof. Dr. Tushar Shah along with his team. For a discussion on the theme "Solar Energy Policy: A Journey from DHUNDI to KUSUM".

16/02/2020

Chai Pe Charcha with Ms.Vishwasree, alum from PRM25.An IAS officer posted in Tripura shared with us her insights about life after IRMA, a Government administrator's journey, what development means in the Northeastern India and roles of govt and development organizations in bringing the change.

19/12/2019

Shifting the Powerplay
The farmers in Mujkuva Village of Gujarat are challenging the status quo of power industry by reversing their roles from that of power consumers to power generators. The solar co-operative of Mujkuva generates electricity through solar panels and sells the surplus to DISCOM thus growing solar as remunerative crop.

A field visit to explore the workings of Mujkuva solar cooperative in central gujarat.

09/09/2019

Vaad Vivaad- The Great IRMAn Debate

The third season of the Vaad Vivaad- the Great IRMAn Debate was conducted on September 9, 2019. The event was open to all students of PRM 39 and PRM 40, and was the first official event for the batch of 40. Altogether 34 registrations were received for the debate. Debate was structured differently this time. In the first round, each participant was given 3 minutes each to put forward his/her ideas and then 1 minute each for Q and A. For the second round, 6 out of the 11 were selected based on the scoring by the jury members. The second round was more like a “heated discussion”, with these 6 finalists divided into couples of 2 on random, and given impromptu topic to speak on in intervals of 1+1+1, i.e., one-minute opening by each, next minute cross questioning and last minute for conclusion. In totality, 6 minutes per couple. Each participant was being judged individually on certain set parameters. Our esteemed jury members included Prof. PKV Kishan, Prof. Anand Venkatesh, Prof. Sushant Kumar and Prof. Abhinav Rajverma. The debate was won by Ms. Akshata Kar from PRM 39, followed by the runner up Debasish Mahalik from PRM 39.

19/06/2019

Why having one Minister for Rural Development & Agriculture is key step forward. It will help bring synergies and much more.

Read here to learn more:

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-having-one-minister-for-rural-development-agri-is-key-step-forward-5759544/

During 2014-15 to 2018-19, about 1.55 crore houses and 2.18 lakh km of all-weather roads were built in rural India under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, respectively.

20/05/2019

Debate Competition

Abhyudaya conducted a debate event on 20th May 2019 between 5:30 PM, judged by Prof. H. S. Shailendra and Prof. Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan. The event was conducted in two rounds. The topic for the first round was “Direct Benefit Transfer is a solution to all failures of welfare schemes”. Participants presented their views in favor or against the motion. Participants also related these topics to the real-life experience, bringing insights from VFS (Village Fieldwork Segment). The second round followed on the spot topics; different topic provided to each participant. Following were the topics debated in the second round:
1. Gender Equality in society is not only desirable but achievable.
2. Non-violence is the most practical method to solve the conflict.
3. The only centralization can resolve the chaos of a diverse society.
4. Democracy is the best form of governance.
5. Social media is the anti-social of all communication.
6. Education is not a solution for unemployment
7. No way but to reduce growth to save the earth.
8. Technology is not the solution to all ills.
The competition concluded with the announcement of winners:
Archana, Sahil, and Rajat, participants of PRM 39, were awarded first, second and third positions.
Abhyudaya would like to congratulate all the teams for their participation.

20/05/2019

Paricharcha - An experience sharing session
February -2019

Participants from PRM 38 placed in diverse fields such as Public policy, livelihoods, consultancy, grassroots development, and CSR, spoke about their motivation for selecting development sector, their DIS & MTS experience, and few more important things.
The session was arranged with the aim to share the first-hand experience of working in the organizations before students go for SIS; to understand closely what kind of projects are offered, what organizations generally expect from interns, constraints while ex*****on of projects, and a lot more.
Speakers for the day were Damini from BAIF, Anup from IWMI, Sweety from Solidaridad, Ravikant from AIF and Sachin from Miraclefeet.