Public Participation 
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Collector directs public participation in water conservation, plantation
The district Collector, Akash Tripathi, has said that minimum two works based on water conservation and greenery must be started in every village panchayat based on public participation under ‘Aao Apna Madhya Pradesh Banaye’. For this an action plan for every village panchayat should be prepared.
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
- Source:
- Pioneer (New Delhi)
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Nath’s PPP roadmap: 44 expressways by 2022 at Rs 3 lakh cr
In a prelude to creating a national expressways authority on the lines of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has already set a time table of works that the agency would implement.
- Date:
- 08/01/2010
- Source:
- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Mendha fights for managing its forest - 'Mawa nate, mata raj'
Mendha a tribal village in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra is showing the way to conserve forests and manage natural resources. Mendha is mainly inhabited by 480 Gond adivasis.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
- Source:
- Panchayati Raj Update Vol: 17 Issue: 1 pp: 5
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- Reports and Documents
Rajasthan state forest policy 2009: draft
This draft of the first ever individual forest policy for Rajasthan acknowledges fast depleting forest cover. It aims to bring additional 45,000 sq km of area under afforestation & pasture development and says that participation of local community shall be central to forest management.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
- Source:
- Government of Rajasthan
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Economic viability as a concept in joint forest management: A case study from the Bankura (North) Division, West Bengal
Joint Forest Management (JFM), the partnership between the Government Forest Department and forest-fringe community (organised through the Forest Protection Committees (FPCs) towards Forest Protection, had its inception in the state of West Bengal and is considered to be the most successful in this state.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Indian Forester Vol: 135 Issue: 12 pp: 1607-1617
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- Reports and Documents
Road to Copenhagen: climate change and poverty in Central Asia
The objectives of the regional E-discussion on climate change and poverty: Collect and summarize the expert opinions on climate
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- UNDP
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Participatory three- dimensional mapping for disaster risk reduction
Involving local communities is a prerequisite to sustainable disaster risk reduction. Local communities are both the primary victims and the first to respond to emergencies when disasters strike. Nobody is more interested in reducing disaster risk than the community whose survival and well-being is at stake.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Participatory Learning and Action Vol: 60 Issue: 1 pp: 109-118
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- Reports and Documents
Environmental assessment for use on medium-impact projects
This document addresses development projects' impact on the environment, which may be harmful to communities and ultimately increases poverty and makes people more vulnerable to disasters. It contains an environmental assessment template and describes the six steps involved in completing this assessment, in addition to disaster and climate risk reduction cases.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Tearfund
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Lessons from a participatory transboundary water governance project in West Africa
This article draws on research the author carried out in Ghana and Burkina Faso to explore the impact of a transboundary water governance project on poor people’s livelihoods. It examines how communities can identity climate change-related problems and solutions in concert with others, including other communities.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Participatory Learning and Action Vol: 60 Issue: 1 pp: 99-106
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Green benches: what can the People’s Republic of China learn from environment courts of other countries?
This paper examines the effectiveness of environment courts in the PRC and elsewhere, so that the lessons learned can be applied in the PRC and in other developing countries. It also recommends ways to promote environmental justice in the PRC, given that the 11 environment courts are no longer enough to handle the rapidly increasing caseload throughout the country.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Asian Development Bank
