Rural Institutions & Livelihood Systems
Rural Institutions & Livelihood Systems
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This 13-day Community-Based Learning program immerses students in rural institutional ecosystems including schools, health centers, livelihood collectives, women’s cooperatives, and decentralized governance bodies.
The Jaipur phase establishes conceptual grounding in Community-Based Research (CBR), safeguarding, power analysis, reciprocity frameworks, and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tools. Co-design workshops with local partners ensure shared expectations and mutually defined outputs.
In rural Rajasthan, students engage in structured service-learning blocks aligned with partner priorities: institutional documentation, curriculum support, livelihood mapping, process review, or community systems analysis. Evening reflection seminars connect lived engagement with academic theory.
The program concludes with deliverable packaging, partner review sessions, and faculty-gradeable reflective synthesis.
Students will:
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Apply Community-Based Learning principles including reciprocity, consent, and safeguarding.
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Conduct participatory stakeholder mapping and asset mapping.
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Analyze rural institutional ecosystems through governance and inclusion lenses.
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Co-produce documentation or tools aligned with partner-defined needs.
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Integrate structured reflection linking theory and field engagement.
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Produce a partner-ready output alongside an academic case reflection.
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