Greetings from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon!

Greetings from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon!

 

Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, a top business school in India, recently announced a Center for Sustainable Development to provide a multi stakeholder platform foster development in a truly sustainable manner, benefiting both community as well as the world. As a part of this initiative,  MDI has collaborated with ACCESS Development Services, a not-for-profit company that offers specialized technical assistance under two verticals - microfinance and livelihoods, to provide a business perspective to ACCESS’s livelihoods activities and help the poor in the country attain sustainable livelihoods solutions.

 

The ‘Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition’ is being launched with attractive prize money of Rs 75,000/-, 50,000/- and 30,000/- for the top three entries. The case study competition would be part of the Microfinance India Summit organized by ACCESS every year.

 

The competition aims to document and disseminate motivating case studies in an attempt to increase awareness and knowledge on the livelihoods sector and making markets work for the poor. These case studies will provide insights to practitioners and will help them improve models of livelihood interventions. .The participants will be required to write a case study of approximately 5000 words on ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’, with a focus on public-private- community partnership. The competition will welcome entries from national as well as foreign nationals, and is targeted at management professionals, practitioners, academicians, researchers and B- school students

 

Deep Joshi (Magsaysay award winner 2009), Padmashree Prof Pritam Singh (Professor of Eminence, MDI, Gurgaon) Biswajit Sen (Rural Development Specialist, Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank), Dr. NCB Nath (Chairman, PIC and FAIR)and Bindu Ananth (President, IFMR Trust), have agreed to be a part of the esteemed Jury. The other expected jurists are, Mr. Shiv Kumar (CEO, NOKIA) and Dr. Rita Sharma (Secretary, Rural Development).

 

We will be very glad if you could spread the news about this competition in your institution and help us make this initiative a coveted and credible competition which brings out the best practices of the sector. The details of the announcement on Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition can be found at http://accessdev.org/case-study-competition.php. Please direct your queries to casecomp@accessdev.org.

 

Important Dates

·         September 10, 2009 – Submission of registration form

·         September 30, 2009 – Submission of final case studies

·         October 28, 2009 – Awards Distribution at the Livelihoods Day of the Microfinance India Summit 2009

 

We look forward to receiving entries from your institution.

 

Thanks and Regards,

 

Neelu Bhullar

Chairperson- Student Affairs

MDI, Gurgaon