Job or Vacancy Description:
LIPH seeks to appoint qualified and committed professional for the following positions on contract basis initially for six months probation and can be extended upto december 2012.

1. Manager – Knowledge Management & Information Technologies : 01 Post

2. Manager – Enterprise Promotion & Capacity Building : 01 Post

3. Manager – Social Development : 01 Post

4. Manager – Federation Development : 01 Post

5. Manager – Technical Services : 01 Post

6. Manage – Financial Services : 01 Post

7. Coordination Officer : 01 Post

8. Manager – Finance : 01 Post

9. Assistant Manager – Enterprise Development : 01 Post

10. Compliance Auditor : 01 Post

Age Limit : 42 Years for all the above Posts

Tentative Last Date :15-05-2011

About the organization:
The Uttarakhand Parvatiya Aajeevika Sanvardhan Company (UPASaC) is a Uttarakhand state initiated Venture Capital Company formed under the aegis of Uttaranchal Gramya Vikas Samiti constituted by the state to implement the IFAD funded Uttaranchal Livelihoods Improvement Project for the Himalaya (ULIPH) popularly known as Aajeevika project. The Company has been registered Under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. The reach of the Company is spread over 17 development blocks of five districts of Uttarakhand targeting 42690 households in 959 villages under Aajeevika. The primary objective of UPASaC is to identify, scout, support and nurture entrepreneurship of the bottom of the pyramid in a manner that it alleviates poverty, create innovative financial tools that will support community institutions in developing networks with the formal financial institution to organize profitable, equitable and sustainable business with positive social, gender and environmental impact in the project area.The project is targeted at mountain communities living in the western and eastern Himalayas. Traditionally, communities in these regions had evolved subsistence-oriented but stable agriculture and a diversified, livelihood strategy combining crop, livestock, and forestry along with resource recycling and collective sharing. In recent years, this equilibrium has been seriously disrupted and the virtually self-sufficient system has broken down due to the need to spread cultivation marginal and forest lands, making food crop-based farming system unsustainable. Improved communications have also led to aspirations for vastly different lifestyles. The net result of this process has been a weakening of the sustainability of past survival systems and an accentuation of poverty. Although production systems in mountains tend to have lower productivity than those in plains, mountains offer substantial opportunities to enhance economic growth and alleviate poverty while at the same time conserving the unique natural resource base.   Himalayan people are recognizing that out migration is not a viable solution to economic security and that opportunities for improved well-being must be found closer to home, in the mountains themselves. A growing tradition of cooperation through the Self-Help Group movement, especially among women, offers a strong foundation from which innovative initiatives can be launched. High levels of literacy hold promise for quick adoption of improved methods and relevant technologies that are required for sustainable livelihood development.  Based on the above, the project will provide opportunities to the poor households to create or enhance the livelihoods by applying the principle of self-help and utilizing the self-help group (SHG) movement as the platform from which project activities will be launched. By doing so the project would be contributing towards developing a replicable model of livelihood improvement in the mountains. It would do so by developing community institutions and investing in their capacity to take livelihood decisions, and by providing a range of support services and linkages.   The project intends to provide opportunities to create or enhance the livelihoods to the poor households by applying the principle of self-help and utilizing the self-help group (SHG) movement as the platform from which project activities will be launched. By doing so the project would be contributing towards developing a replicable model of livelihood improvement in the mountains. It would do so by developing community institutions and investing in their capacity to take livelihood decisions, and by providing a range of support services and linkages. In order to meet the above, the project will follow an approach that is targeted at the poorest households and at women in project area.The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a specialised agency of the United Nations having its headquarters at Rome, Italy. IFAD has an overall mission for “Enabling rural poor to overcome poverty”. IFAD’s Country Strategic Opportunities Paper (COSOP) for India, was approved in December 2001 and directed significant interventions in the areas of growth-oriented farm and off-farm activities and natural resource management. In the above context, IFAD’s lending strategy for India envisages A focus on ‘niche investments’ that – if proven successful – are likely to be taken up on a larger scale by the Government and/or other donors; Empowerment of the poor by taking advantage of the opportunities created by the on-going efforts to empower local bodies throughout the country notably through the devolution of authority to the Gram Sabha (i.e. village assemblies which comprise all resident adults with voting rights) in the scheduled areas; Integration of self-help groups (SHGs) with local self government institutions as a means of generating positive synergies between economic advancement, social and institutional development, and empowerment; Priority to the development of areas where rainfed agriculture is practiced, in recognition of the preponderance of poverty in these areas, activities to include micro-watershed development, water-harvesting and overall natural resource management; Targeting of rural populations, with a special focus on the scheduled tribes and scheduled castes, as well as on women, in recognition of the higher incidences of poverty and vulnerability as well as generally lower social status of these categories. In line with this, an inception paper for ULIPH was approved by the IFAD management in July, 2002. An IFAD Formulation Mission visited India and Meghalaya and Uttarakhand from 22 October to 16 December, 2002 to draw up a detailed design of the proposed project. The Formulation Report was reviewed by IFAD, the Government of India and the Governments of Meghalaya and Uttarakhand. The Appraisal Mission visited India from 6 May to 12 June 2003. The Appraisal process involved initial briefings with the Government of India and the State governments. Extensive fieldwork in target districts was undertaken by technical experts and close interaction was maintained with both state governments. Final briefings were held in Meghalaya and Uttarakhand and wrap up meeting with the Government of India where detailed discussions were undertaken. Negotiations and signing of a Tripartite MoU between the State Governments of Meghalaya and Uttarakhand, Government of India and IFAD took place on the 15th of November, 2003 at Rome. The Uttaranchal Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS) was registered as a Society on 5th December, 2003 to implement the Aajeevika Project. The Project Loan Agreement was signed between IFAD and GoI on 20th February, 2004. Subsequently, the Subsidiary Loan Agreement was signed between GoUA and IFAD. The Project Director of the project, Ms. Jyotsna Sitling, was appointed on the 25th May, 2004. The Loan became effective from the 1st October, 2004. Staff at district and state levels were recruited and deployed by December, 2004.

Address :
Livelihoods Improvement Project for the Himalayas , Uttarakhand.
(Rural Development Department , Govt. of Uttarakhand)
(Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS) & Uttarakhand Parvatiya Aajeevika Sanvardhan Company (UPASaC))
Head Office :- 16/1Indira Nagar, Dehradun 248006, Uttarakhand

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