Livelihood | Centre For Civil Society

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Centre for Civil Society was set up in August 1997. In the past 25 years, CCS has carved a niche position for itself in the policy space. We, in our journey, have advocated for choice, accountability and prosperity through market based solutions.
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Research
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Enabling Research through Research Management

The field of research management (RM) has emerged as a tool to create an enabling research environment within universities, where researchers can get support, including but not limited to management of their research grant, getting legal and technology transfer-related advice and finding ways of increasing the impact of their research and innovation.

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Model Service
Delivery Act

The concept of Citizens Charters were introduced in 1997 across various levels of government, in both the Union and States. However, these charters remained ineffective due to their voluntary nature. The improvements in technology and internet penetration in India made for a fertile situation legislatie on timely delivery of services, including those delivered electronically.

A Teary Tale of Onion Exports

Onions are a very important crop for both Indian farmers and consumers. Whenever there are price fluctuations in the market, the Government changes the rules on the trade of onions.
Policy Training
UPCOMING CERTIFICATE COURSE

Austrian Economics Seminar
Advanced Online Certificate Course

“Austrian” economics is not a specific field within economics, nor is it a set of conclusions. It is a different approach to understanding the social reality that dissents from the mainstream method, theory, and policy.
Programs
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Project Bolo English

For the academic year 2022-23, 300 schools including both budget private schools and semi-government schools registered with our program. We started working with learning centres for out-of-school children in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. The team also completed teacher training for ~4000 teachers who received spoken English application skills.
Publications
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Preparing the Fields for Genetically Modified Crops in India

By 2050, the world will need to produce 60-70% more food than what it is already producing to feed an anticipated population of 9.3 billion people.
Events
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Online Certificate Workshop on ‘Fundraising & Grant Management’

These key aspects include - understanding the fundraising cycle, different approaches, and methods for fundraising, and understanding the best practices for grants and contract management.
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Liberty & Society Series 3 : Environmental Challenges: The Tragedy of the Collective (Hindi)

18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

A Hindi translation of Parth's lecture on Environmental Challenges, which analyses some of the most common environmental problems we face today and explains why the command-and-control approach to solving these does not work. Instead, it applies the property rights approach which aligns the self-interest of local individuals and communities with the preservation of the resource.

Author / Edited by:
Parth J Shah

Jeevika: Law, Liberty & Livelihood Campaign

Tue, 10/18/2022 - 15:54 5 Min Read

Jeevika: Law, Liberty & Livelihood Campaign is an award winning effort aimed to eradicate market entry and exit barriers to promote individual livelihood freedom for street entrepreneurs

(i.e. street hawkers, cycle rickshaw pullers, small shop owners etc.)

Our focus was on street vending and artisanship in Bihar and street vending and cycle rickshaw pulling in Rajasthan.

Jeevika Film Festival

Tue, 10/18/2022 - 15:42 5 Min Read

To complement our advocacy efforts, CCS hosts an annual Asia-wide documentary festival to capture the livelihood challenges faced by the rural and urban poor. The festival brings to light policies and regulations that limit livelihood freedom of the poor.

Terracotta Environmentalism

Thu, 10/06/2022 - 12:47 5 Min Read

A resilient and robust action towards environment protection and conservation should include local communities, sustainable livelihoods, sound economic incentives and a greater role for market-based instruments. At Centre for Civil Society, we approach the environment through the Terracotta vision which focuses on realigning incentives rather than reforming human nature. We believe that human action can be calibrated to positive environmental outcomes through communities, markets and incentives.

Agriculture

Thu, 10/06/2022 - 12:46 5 Min Read

Despite decades of policy interventions, most Indian farmers have not seen their incomes rise, nor have they been able to increase farm productivity. Farmers are prey to indebtedness, a lack of choice in inputs, and underdeveloped warehousing and processing facilities. Our research finds that the distress in the sector primarily results from farmers having little or no control over their enterprise, and Indian agricultural policies provide a cautionary tale of distorting the market process.

Street Vendors

Thu, 10/06/2022 - 12:45 5 Min Read

Our livelihood initiative is geared towards achieving greater livelihood freedom for the rural and urban poor, and promoting choice and accountability in the area of skill development for underprivileged youth. We aim to further policy measures that increase ease of doing business and remove regulatory or market entry and exit barriers for India’s small entrepreneurs (street hawkers, cycle rickshaw pullers, small shop owners, farmers, among others).

Surjit Bhalla

Managing Director of Oxus Research and Investments, a New Delhi-based economic research, asset management, and emerging-markets advisory firm. Taught at the Delhi School of Economics and worked at the Rand Corporation and the Brookings Institution.

Jagdish Bhagwati

Renowned Professor of economics and regarded as one of the foremost international trade economists of recent times. He is presently University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Shreekant Gupta

Professor at Delhi School of Economics. He is also a researcher, policymaker and consultant on environment, natural resources, energy and urban issues. Taught at the universities of Delhi, Maryland, Jawaharlal Nehru University and National University of Singapore.

Nimai Mehta

Nimai is Senior Professorial Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at American University, Washington D.C. Nimai’s area of research is on the quality and use of data under varying institutional contexts.

He is the lead coordinator of a multidisciplinary effort at the university to employ data-science, economics, and machine-learning to improve data on missing and exploited children. He was previously the principal investigator for a UNICEF project on the quality of education data and reforms in Myanmar.

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