Aajeevika Bureau
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Rajasthan
2004
Staff: 12
Forced Migration, Legal Issues, Community Action, Social Justice, Equality
Empowerment, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Communication, Capacity
Building
Development, Development Interventions, Social Development, Social Leadership,
Personal and Professional Development
Bureau works to empower, educate, and advocate for young rural migrants in
Udaipur Region. Its goals are to:
- Present skill-building workshops for young
rural migrants to help them find higher paying jobs in the labor market - Provide information, counseling, and placement
services for migrants looking for work and seasonal employment - Develop communications networks for separated
families - Research seasonal migration patterns and
trends - Provide shelter, financial services, healthcare,
and education facilities for rural to urban migrants - Give legal aid and protection against
exploitative labor practices
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overpowering social and economic reality for populations residing in marginal,
rain-dependent and non-industrialized regions of India. Southern Rajasthan is
one such region that has witnessed fundamental shifts in the way rural
communities earn their incomes and manage economic life. The
skills through skill-building workshops. Once training is complete,
negotiate wages on behalf of the worker.
- Research and develop materials for skill-building
workshops - Facilitate and lead daily skill-building
workshops. Possible workshops ideas include, but are not limited to: - Life management skills
- Basic English
- Nutrition and hygiene
- Personal financial management
- Specific job skills, such as plumbing, driving,
painting, and domestic services
Requirements
- Low to Intermediate Hindi
- Solid project management and/or workshop
development skills - Coursework in human rights, legal issues, and
migration - Strong research and writing skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team
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large-scale seasonal migration is lack of communication between migrants, employers,
and their families. The rural poor frequently leave their homes without
ensuring stable employment, and have extreme difficulty contacting their family
back home. Aajeevika Bureau has developed a registration
and ID database with essential information relevant to each migrant worker.
These records facilitate communication and provide crucial information about broader
migration patterns of seasonal labor.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative research
on this new service of documenting individual migrants - Assess programmatic best practices and
efficacy of current programs - Create a research project related to
documenting migrant workers - Develop reports of collected data for
presentation
Requirements
- Low to Intermediate Hindi
- Solid project management skills
- Coursework in human rights, legal issues,
migration and/or related topics - Strong research and writing skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team
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Bureau is developing a service that will provide seasonal laborers with small
loans for relocation. These loans will allow for more dignified migration and
will facilitate higher returns and greater security for the migrating
population.
- Help coordinate initial startup of project in
rural communities, including - Conducting needs assessments
- Aid in project formation
- Assist in loan fund distribution and monitoring
- Work with Aajeevika
Bureau to collaborate with the government regarding the creation of larger
financial schemes
Requirements
- Low to Intermediate Hindi
- Solid project management skills
- Coursework in human rights, legal issues,
migration and/or related topics - Strong research and writing skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team
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ignorant about their legal rights and are frequently underpaid and subjected to
inhumane working conditions. Aajeevika Bureau works
to educate the migration population and provide legal assistance for
work-related grievances.
Opportunities
- Assist in researching and documenting the
legal aid program - Develop reports and materials on current legal
rights of migrants - Carry out fundraising to expand program
capabilities - Implement evaluation of current projects,
including impact assessment, best practices, and recommendations for
future development - Conduct focused research on migration patterns
and related topics for the economic advancement of migrant workers
Requirements
- Low to Intermediate Hindi
- Solid project management skills
- Coursework in human rights, legal issues,
migration and/or related topics - Strong research and writing skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team
font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Rajiv Khandelwal
is a development practitioner who has worked for the past 20 years in the
tribal region of Southern Rajasthan. He has led a diverse range of
community-based initiatives including watershed protection, collaborative
agriculture development, and microfinance. Rajiv has also consulted on
livelihood strategy projects and has extensively researched rural poverty and
change. He is the founder and director of the
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Bureau.
participant will be proportionate to their level of experience. Participants
who are new to development work may predominantly support and assist current
project agendas, while those with much applicable experience may be able to
assume greater responsibility. Research projects are strongly encouraged by
this organization to support each program’s objectives because minimal
resources are currently allocated for research.
Udaipur, and shares a small office with Vikalpdesign,
another FSD partner organization. Participants will have both computer and internet
access.
been considered a negative and undesirable phenomenon. Many organizations and
projects in India specifically work towards preventing or reversing rural
migration. Much emphasis is therefore placed on improving land and
livestock-based economic activities or on starting up micro-enterprises in
rural areas. In regions such as South Rajasthan, the potential for expanding
the economy in this way remains limited and migration has become an inevitable
strategy for the poor. In fact, migration to urban and industrial areas has
helped many rural households escape abject poverty and an oppressive social
environment. The Aajeevika Bureau was founded in 2004
on the premise that rural migration will remain an inevitable reality, creating
an urgent need to assist and support these rural migrants in their relocation.
Rather than trying to eliminate migration, Aajeevika
Bureau works to mitigate its negative consequences for the struggling rural
population.
men that have left their rural communities in search of work. The rural
villages offer few economic opportunities, so young men leave their families
behind and migrate to urban centers. Aajeevika
intervenes to provide them with skills training, job placement, identification
cards, legal counseling, and other required services. Child labor has also
become a focus of this organization as levels of child labor continue to
increase dramatically. Aajeevika Bureau is deeply
concerned with the early entry of rural children into the urban labor market
and has set up a supplementary education facility for preventing early school
dropouts in impoverished rural areas.
