Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Rural Livelihood
Unevenly distributed, accessed and severely contested resources and the largely unimagined space for creating and actualizing sustainable livelihood opportunities are among the most critical challenges India faces as it seeks to realize its demographic dividend and manage its sharp regional inequities. Our work in the NRM and Rural Livelihood domain, spread across 14 Indian States, concentrates on examining, designing and supporting sustainable livelihood opportunities a strong emphasis on decentralized management.
Our State-level Situation Analyses have mapped land and water resource endowments, distribution, access and use patterns and examined in-depth the policies, institutional arrangements, practices and social equations that impact these. Coupled with our experience in facilitating participatory resource assessment and local planning exercises and programme assessments, these have provided us a robust understanding of the wide-ranging set of issues at play in the country’s varied geographical, cultural and socio-economic settings.
Significant is our association on monitoring and learning aspects with two of the largest Development Partner-supported Rural Livelihood interventions in the country (the Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programme (APRLP) and the Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programme (MPRLP).
Our three-year research on Panchayati Raj and NRM remains one of the most nuanced in its exploration of the evolution of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), changing resource management strategies and the possible institutional links between the two for equitable, efficient and sustainable decentralized NRM (DNRM) in India. Originally undertaken in three States- Andhra Pradesh (AP), Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh (MP), we have gone on to research similar issues in Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Unevenly distributed, accessed and severely contested resources and the largely unimagined space for creating and actualizing sustainable livelihood opportunities are among the most critical challenges India faces as it seeks to realize its demographic dividend and manage its sharp regional inequities. Our work in the NRM and Rural Livelihood domain, spread across 14 Indian States, concentrates on examining, designing and supporting sustainable livelihood opportunities a strong emphasis on decentralized management.
Our State-level Situation Analyses have mapped land and water resource endowments, distribution, access and use patterns and examined in-depth the policies, institutional arrangements, practices and social equations that impact these. Coupled with our experience in facilitating participatory resource assessment and local planning exercises and programme assessments, these have provided us a robust understanding of the wide-ranging set of issues at play in the country’s varied geographical, cultural and socio-economic settings.
Significant is our association on monitoring and learning aspects with two of the largest Development Partner-supported Rural Livelihood interventions in the country (the Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programme (APRLP) and the Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programme (MPRLP).
Our three-year research on Panchayati Raj and NRM remains one of the most nuanced in its exploration of the evolution of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), changing resource management strategies and the possible institutional links between the two for equitable, efficient and sustainable decentralized NRM (DNRM) in India. Originally undertaken in three States- Andhra Pradesh (AP), Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh (MP), we have gone on to research similar issues in Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Looking for fresh policy ideas? Want support in examining, designing or managing sustainable livelihood interventions? Conceptualizing substantive community and PRI roles in resource management? Want a tool for local resource planning and management? Need to evaluate your NRM and Rural Livelihood initiatives?
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