Scoping status APU

Collaborating Investigator

Amalendu Jyotishi (Azim Premji Foundation)

Transfer of Funds Agreement

• TOR/DFM_TOR_APU_Scoping-TFA_2020-07-15_EXECUTED.pdf

Finance

Title	Date	Status
Transfer 1/2	2020-06-30	COMPLETE
Transfer 2/2	2021-04-30

Activities

Deliverable	Workflow status	Date
DFM Karnataka literature review (View | Edit)		2020-11-30
DFM Karnataka Zotero library (View | Edit)		2021-12-31
DFM Karnataka production and market survey (View | Edit)		2020-09-25
DFM Karnataka interview guides (View | Edit)		2020-10-15
DFM Karnataka scoping report (View | Edit)		2020-10-30
DFM Karnataka compilation of interviews (View | Edit)		2021-07-31
DFM Karnataka stakeholder workshops (View | Edit)		2021-07-10
DFM Karnataka visual documentation (View | Edit)		2021-12-31
DFM Karnataka master's thesis research (View | Edit)		2021-06-30
DFM Karnataka published outputs (View | Edit)		2021-12-31

Notes

See APU_ACT_Provisional-Expenses-INR_July 2021.xlsx

Update from Amal, 2021-07-28

First, the pandemic situation has hampered quite a part of our (the Investigators) field visit. Though we have managed significant data collection despite that, we as investigators (ie. myself, Prof, Bhatta and Priya) barely utilise the budget for field expenses. Secondly, originally, our project was supposed to end by December 2021. Given that the second installment of money would be released only after July, we will have limited time to spend the amount of money reasonably working towards the project. In other words, we would need the project period to be extended (perhaps by 6 months) to meaningfully utilise the fund. Third, I understand we have budgeted the expenses on different headings. While on some headings we were able to utilise the fund, on some others we could not due to the prevailing restrictions of pandemic. I hope you would be fine and flexible if we reallocate the budget from one heading to the other. Fourth, as you would remember in the initial conversation with the Karnataka team, we had a much higher budget to start with. However, later due to FCRA rules and our inability to take more money in the project through APF, a number of budgeted expenses were removed. For example, we have not budgeted for the overhead. We have also not budgeted a bit of honorarium that we initially thought to have for Prof. Bhatta, Priya and myself. Some of these expenses are now reflected in our in-kind contribution. Of course we have not included Prof. Bhatta and Priya's time as they are not part of our organisation. We may separately discuss those possibilities. The below email from Sevi will provide you a snapshot of our budget, expenses and cofunding.     

In general, despite all adversities of the pandemic, we have managed to collect significant and important data and progressed reasonably well in the project. In the DFM-Karnataka team meeting held on 10th July we discussed a few deliverables and set a timeline for those. We are also planning and inclined to share Karnataka preliminary findings sometimes in the later half of August. We also intend to conduct two dissemination workshops in Mangalore and Karwar with the stakeholders, sometime in November. In addition, we intend to hire Prasanna (that Derek would know) as a Research Associate, formally in the DFM project. His formal presence would aid the project in data analysis (from 3 rounds of survey). I hope, by August we will be able to receive the second installment of the funding to facilitate the hiring and other expenses.