Jeekika: Ley, Libertad y Subsistencia
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Derechos de propiedad: identidad, dignidad y oportunidad para todos .
El objetivo de Jeevika es asegurar el reconocimiento legal a los emprendedores del sector informal para defender su derecho a practicar sus medios de vida y la propiedad privada. Mediante el desarrollo de soluciones políticas y abogacía tenemos la intención de luchar contra el acoso innecesario a los emprendedores informales callejeros por las autoridades públicas e introducir soluciones sostenibles.
Sobre ti
Sección 1: Sobre ti
Sección 2: Sobre tu organización
¿Esta iniciativa está vinculada a alguna organización establecida?
Nombre de la organización
Centre for Civil Society
Página web de la organización
Teléfono de la organización
+91 11 2653-7456 / 2652-1882
Dirección postal de la organización
A-69, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 India
País de la organización
India, DL
La organización es
OSC/ONG
¿Hace cuánto tiempo la organización fue fundada?
Menos de un año
Sobre tu idea
Título de la innovación
Jeekika: Ley, Libertad y Subsistencia
Describe tu proyecto o Idea innovadora
El objetivo de Jeevika es asegurar el reconocimiento legal a los emprendedores del sector informal para defender su derecho a practicar sus medios de vida y la propiedad privada. Mediante el desarrollo de soluciones políticas y abogacía tenemos la intención de luchar contra el acoso innecesario a los emprendedores informales callejeros por las autoridades públicas e introducir soluciones sostenibles.
País donde se focaliza tu trabajo
India, DL
Innovación
¿Qué es lo que hace que tu idea sea única?
The concept of providing legal status to informal entrepreneurs derives its uniqueness from its potential for long term impact and sustainability given its foundation in concepts of freedom, liberty and private property.
The focus of this idea is to ensure the right to property and economic freedom to the poor entrepreneurs of the informal sector of the economy who have so far been neglected from development and policy discourse. Special emphasis will be laid on street entrepreneurs such as vendors, cycle rickshaw pullers, auto rickshaw drivers, barbers, small stationary shop keepers etc.
Our current efforts include advocacy for policy solutions in the States of Rajasthan and Bihar demanding protection and regulation for the livelihoods of vendors and hawkers. This can provide a permanent solution to all the problems faced by street vendors such as illegality, eviction, extortion, confiscation, challans and street mafias. This idea has the potential to make the street entrepreneur legal, recognize their contribution in the economy and open the door to financial, insurance and other services which are currently only available to formal sector entrepreneurs. This initiative can be replicated by other states in India and can benefit more than 10 million poor entrepreneurs making their livelihood on street.
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Impacto
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¿Cuál fue el impacto obtenido hasta el momento?
According to the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, about 77 percentage of the Indian population is engaged in the unorganised or informal sector to make their living. The sector contributes more than half of the national income. The Commission estimates the number of street vendors as 2% of the urban poor which can be estimated to around 10 million. This initiative can directly benefit these street entrepreneurs to earn their livelihood with dignity. Apart from benefiting the target group directly it can also have multiple indirect outcomes such as:
1. Make the city clean, beautiful and planned
2. Boost the market of local goods, services, arts and craft
3. Reduce corruption and red-tapism
4. Better transport movement
5. Better urban planning
6. Improve the reach of goods and services of daily use
According to the Planning Commission of India, around 37% of the total population of India lives below poverty line. Moreover, a large proportion of the population also belongs to the lower middle class. This population, comprising of the poor and the lower middle class, depend on street vendors to meet their requirements of daily use. This initiative would indirectly benefit this population as well. Besides this, the project can also make a case for policy solution in other professions of the informal sector.
Problema
Most of the professions and livelihoods in the informal sector of the economy in India have either no or limited regulatory frameworks. This makes informal entrepreneurs vulnerable to harassment from local authorities, government officials and street mafias and forces them to live under constant threat of closure of business. Street vendor face harassment in the form of eviction, extortion, confiscation and challans which make them to stay under forced poverty. Due to this threat these entrepreneurs are unable to expand their business because of the fear of losing their capital.
Due to illegality, support services to businesses are also unavailable to the poor entrepreneurs. The poor still live under the draconian license-permit-quota raj, as the system of extensive government intervention in India is known. For entry-level professions that need low skills and little capital, licenses are still mandatory. If someone is caught driving a car without license, police/authorities don’t take away his/her car, just a fine is collected. But if a street vendor in India is caught operating on the street without permission (finding a vendor with permission is rare due to excessive requireme
Acciones
The action plan for this initiative includes the following steps:
1. Regulate and legalise livelihoods and work areas within the informal sector
2. Advocacy to ensure local governing bodies be legally equipped with the process and machinery to identify problems, ensure genuine public participation and evolve local solutions
3. Promote local governance in cities especially in the management of public space, facilities, etc.
4. Empower street entrepreneurs to achieve (maximise) all the legal protections and the support that the formal sector enjoys, like property rights over space, machinery and equipment, access to formal banking system and insurance options.
5. Develop proper vending spaces using a Dili Haat model (completely new area for vending) or Seva Nagar Market model (refurbishing existing vending space).
We are adopting different ways and strategies to target different stake holders such as street vendors, government officials, political leaders & ministers, policy experts, media, active citizen and youth aiming at the policy change for long term sustainable solution for people working in the informal sector.
Resultados
Over next three years regulation of the street market can open many doors for street entrepreneur to prosper. The livelihoods and profession is also expected to go through a big change as recognition of their work will open scope for innovation in running the business as well as support services. Till date, we have been successful in to convincing the government to come up with policy solution for street vendors. The Rajasthan Government has already started working on this initiative. Out time bound action plan includes:
• Year One: Government should pass the Bill/Policy for Urban street vendors
• Year Two: Implementation of the Bill/Policy giving street vendors entitlement over space and capital
• Year Three: Innovate and create mechanisms to deliver services to aid the profession as well as promote the use of technology
¿A cuántas personas beneficia tu iniciativa anualmente?
Menos de 100
¿Cuál es el ingreso mensual promedio de la comunidad beneficiada? (en Dólares)
Menos de $50
¿Buscas a través de tu innovación generar incidencia en políticas públicas?
De ser así, ¿cómo
Sustentabilidad
¿En qué etapa se encuentra la innovación?
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¿La organización tiene alguna alianza no monetaria con el gobierno?
Por favor, cuéntanos como todas estas alianzas son fundamentales para el desarrollo de tu innovación.
This initiative requires collective effort from several organizations to influence policy makers. Also, taking the nature of the problem into consideration, it requires local solution for which it requires the engagement of organizations and people at all levels of policy advocacy work. Currently, we are running the campaign with support from Sir Dorab Ji Tata Trust. We have also partnered with Nidan, a grass root organization working with street vendors in Bihar. At national level we partnered with NASVI (National Association of Street Vendors of India). For other specific deliverables under the campaign we will also partner with several formal and informal organizations. Hence partnership, engagement, continuous follow up and maintaining the relation other organizations is very important for the success of the campaign.
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Tu historia
¿Cuál fue el momento decisivo que te llevó a desarrollar esta innovación? Cuéntanos tu historia
It was mostly an intellectual journey, I became familiar with the idea through the reading of Hernando De Soto’s book The Other Path. On seeing the reality of the informal sector in urban India, it became clear that the idea had direct application in India. After some preliminary research we developed and articulated the nature of regulations, their impact on informal sector operators and possible ways to free street entrepreneurs from the regulatory stranglehold and guarantee the right to their property (goods, cart, weighing balance, cycle rickshaw, etc.). It was quite clear that it was not the just the payment of bribes to government officers who would allow the entrepreneurs to operate but the lack of legal status even after paying the brief was the real culprit. Unless regulations and policies addressed the legal status of street entrepreneurs, the other usual remedies would not have a sustainable and lasting impact on their livelihood prospects.
Cuéntanos sobre la persona que está detrás de este proyecto – el innovador social. Incluye una biografía
The innovator Parth J Shah is the founder of Centre for Civil Society, a think tank in New Delhi, India. He got his PhD in economics in the US and taught at the University of Michigan before returning to India. The Centre works in the area of livelihoods, education, governance, and environment. It works with policy makers and opinion shapers as well as college students to promote better social and economic policies. The websites www.ccs.in, www.jeevika.org, www.schoolchoice.in, www.righttoeducation.in and www.azadi.me capture the work and impact of CCS.
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