VIRTUAL HUB FOR RURAL TRANSFORMATION 2 ND SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSFORMATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT: COLLABORATION AND CO­PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE Charles Sturt University, Australia; Ambedkar University Delhi; PRADAN SCHEDULE DAY 1 (19. 04.2016) Venue: India International Centre, Delhi Session no. 1 TIME EVENT 8:45 am­ 9:00 Registration am 9:00 am Setting the Scene ­ Gavin Ramsay 9: 15 am Exploring research and practice as a means to enhance transformation: ­ A journey in action research Imran Amin, Ishita Dey and Anup Dhar 11:00 am Morning Tea 11:30 am Developing a platform as a basis for communication across the Virtual Hub for Rural Transformation Turam Purty, Gavin Ramsay, Nivedita Narain and Sanjiva Prasad 1:00 pm Lunch Session No. 2 OPENING CEREMONY TIME 2:00 pm NAME OF THE SPEAKER 2:30 pm Duncan Green Chair: Santosh Singh Discussant: Ajit Kanitkar TITLE Opening Address Keynote address 3:20 pm Origins and development of the Virtual Hub for Rural Transformation: Reflecting on our actions and learning. Bridging distance and building relationships between women farmers in Australia and India to sustain and develop rural communities. 4:00 pm 4:20 pm Dhar, Narain and Ramsay Ramsay, Nugent, Parsons, Fear, Kumbhakar and Narain 5:30 pm 6:00 pm Time to catching up and network or enjoy a stroll in the beautiful and historic Lodi Gardens Cocktail 3:40 pm Discussion Afternoon Tea Session No. 3 THEME: Narrative of Collaboration: Experience of collaborating, learning and sharing transformative practices... The way forward. Chair: Deepankar Roy Discussant : Shambhu Chebrolu TIME NAME OF THE TITLE SPEAKER 4:40 pm Varnica Arora The Corrective Intervention Experience 5:00 pm Suresh Sahu Why do people do what they do: Diverse narratives on People’s Livelihood Choices. 5:20 pm Gavin Ramsay Winding up for the day 7: 00 pm­ Conference Dinner DAY 2 (20.04.2016) Session 3­ Continued Time Name of the Speaker Title 9:00 am Sumita Kasana, Nityanand Chal, Narendranath D. Changing Large Systems: Experience of the NRLM Support Organisations 9:20 am Pooja Singh and Ruhi Community collaboration in managing health services 9:40 am Bishakha Mishra, Namrata Acharya, Shashi Shikha Beyond Economic Empowerment: Alternative Imaginations of Wellbeing and Social Justice in the Rural 10:00 am Discussion in Groups 10:30 am Morning Tea Session No. 4 THEME: Narrative around Transformation: Experience of reconceptualising community’s perspective of transformation. TIME 11:00 am 11:20 am 11:40 am 12:00 pm NAME OF THE SPEAKER Raphaele Ng Tock Mine Arunima Mishra Chair: Nandini Nayak Discussant: Rukmini Sen TITLE Gurpreet Kaur Imagination of Transformation: Transformation of Imagination Transformation in Health: Transformation in Development. Dilemmas in Rural Health in a Village in Dindori, Madhya Pradesh How ‘transformative’ is gender transformation? Conceptualising ‘Self Transformation’: Understanding the New ‘Subject’ Positionalities 12:20 pm Bishakha Mishra, Arpit Gaind, Gautam Bisht Bhavya Chitranshi 12:40 pm Amit Jain 1:00 pm Present, Absent or Transforming: Joint Forest Management through Community Participation Discussion in Groups 1:30 pm Lunch From Development Practice to Transformative Praxis Session No. 5 THEME: New Ideas and Theory of Transformation: Building a Methodology of Transformation 4:00 pm Chair: Ashok Nagpal Discussant : Sumangala Damodaran NAME OF THE TITLE SPEAKER Niti Saxena, Pradeep Collectivising Rural Development: The Bottom­Bottom Kumar Mehta Approach Deepankar Roy, The Realm of Potentialities, Possibilities and Actualities Parijat Ghosh, Suvakanta Nayak, Vishal Jamkar Maitreyi R. Kollegal, Collaboration and Co­production for Transformation: A Sankar Datta Theoretical Enquiry Ishita Dey The Field and the Field­work: Whose Question is it Anyway? Imran Amin Actioning Research, Researching action: Reflections on the Methodology of Development Practice Discussion in Groups 4:30 pm TIME 2:30 pm 2:50 pm 3:00 pm 3:20 pm 3:40 pm Afternoon Tea Session No. 6 THEME: Education(al) Processes of Transformation: Field­­based classroom and institutionalised practice. TIME 5:00 pm 5:20 pm 5:40 pm 6:00 pm NAME OF THE SPEAKER Vandana Prasad Susan Mathew, Veena Vidyadharan, Saurabh Kumar Turam Purty, Sunandan Madan, Vikas Jha, Swapnil Agarwal Shambhu Chebrolu, Chitra Krishnan Chair: Honey Oberoi Discussant: Imran Amin TITLE Cyclical Negotiations between Theory and Practice for Building Knowledge in Nutrition with Intent to Action Transformative Knowledge Sharing in the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra River basin The Role of language and Cultural Anthropology in design and Development of Internet and Communication Technology for Rural Transformation Co­creating Knowledge for Rural Transformation: Universities as Knowledge brokers 6:20 pm 6:40 pm Toni Nugent, Michael Friend, Cindy Cassidy, Diana Parsons, Dale Stringer, Rob Fisher Bill Bellotti 7:00 pm Collaborative Farmer led Research in an Australian Context Research or Development? The ‘Seemingly Monstrous Hybrid’ of Agricultural Research for Development Close DAY 3 (21.04.2016) Session No. 7 The Virtual Hub for Rural Transformation development workshop will plan and commence development of the next phase for the Hub. All of you, as conference participants, are members of the Virtual Hub, and have the opportunity to influence the Hub’s development and activities. Time is relatively limited so we will need to do some “pressure cooker” planning to continue development of the virtual platform around which the activities of the Hub will be based. Participants will have the opportunity to pose the questions to be answered as well as working to build the solutions. The activities in the Hub will operate as a collection of integrated projects. Some projects will focus on virtual activities while others will operate as a combination of virtual and face to face activities. In all cases, the projects will focus on transformation, with an overarching project exploring transformation being developed. TIME 9:00 am 10:30 am 11:30 am 1:00 pm 3:30 pm EVENT Building a shared understanding of the Virtual Hub for Rural Transformation ­ Nivedita Narain Morning Tea Virtual Hub Development Workshop ­ Building teams for the future ­ Gavin Ramsay Lunch Afternoon Tea 4:00 pm Virtual Hub ­ operational planning to build aims and activities for the next 12 months Close of workshop 5:00 pm TIME DAY 4 (22. 04.2016) Session No. 8 Venue: CR 12, Ambedkar University, Delhi Theme: Agricultural Transformation NAME OF THE TITLE SPEAKER 9:00 am Arundhita Bhanjdeo 9:20 am Wanborlang Khymdeit and Ritesh Pandey Rajashree Joshi 9:40 am 10:00 am Arvind Kumar and Ved Arya 10:20 am 11:00 am The role of agricultural research in rural transformation: Evaluating and enhancing outputs and outcomes Changing Rural Poor lives: An agricultural research programme changing different aspects of life through women’s collective “Livelihood Facilitation Framework” as a “Transformative Practice” to ensure context specific, reflective and participatory development planning process to ensure livelihood gains to deprived tribal communities Promotion of Organic horticulture based sustainable livelihood through village level women institutions Discussion Morning Tea Session no. 9 THEME: Experiences of Rural Transformation TIME NAME OF THE SPEAKER TITLE 11:30 am Shailendra Tiwari 11:50 am Sanjeev Kumar 12:10 pm 12:30 pm Sudarshan Suchi, Dharam Singh and Srinu Manda Harish Pandit Experiences of Seva Mandir of transformation of property relations for reviving common lands through community institutions Technical Empowerment & women leadership in small livestock farming : A case study of Pashu Nurse promotion Redefining Rural Transformation: The Reliance way for Self Reliance 12:50 pm Discussion And Close 1:30 Lunch Formal vis­à­vis Informal Credit Supply in Tribal Areas­ A case of Shitalpani Village