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Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar is a scholar, activist and founder of Deshkal Society, Delhi. He has been working in the area of land rights, social diversity, inequality and education in India for one and a half decades. He is co-editor of books on Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins (2010), Oxford University Press, New Delhi; Dynamics of Inclusive Classrooms: Social Diversity, Inequality and School Education in India (2017), Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi; and School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives (2012), Orient Blackswan, New Delhi. Earlier, he has edited a reputed magazine ‘Seminar’ (October 2012) on the theme of inclusive classroom in India. Currently, he is engaged in action research on governance of land rights for landless poor and inclusive education for effectiveness of schools in India.
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Impact of community mobilisation on land rights governance
Homestead land rights, that is, the security a household enjoys over the plot of land on which its dwelling is built, shape livelihoods and living standards for poor and marginalised populations in rural areas. This column reports initial findings from an impact evaluation of a programme that seeks to improve homestead rights in Bihar through the formation of village-level community-based organisations.
The Impact of Community-Driven Accountability on Land Rights Governance: Evidence from a Homestead Land Titling Initiative
How and under what circumstances can civic mobilization improve local governance and service delivery? This project seeks to contribute to debates on this question through a multi-method analysis of a homestead land entitlement support program in rural Gaya District, Bihar. This project evaluates Deshkal Society’s intervention with a research design composed of four components: Village-level randomized field experiment, Semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with untitled SC households, Semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews with CBO members and Interviews with government officials and key informants.
The Impact of Community Mobilization on Land Rights Governance: Evidence from a Homestead Land Entitlement Initiative in Gaya District of Bihar, India
This project evaluates the impact of a community level program in Gaya district that seeks to establish, train, and mobilize village-level community-based organizations to assist Scheduled Caste households in obtaining homestead title. In doing so, the project builds on a growing policy research literature that explores whether and under what conditions social accountability strategies can improve the delivery of government entitlements.