Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
THE ‘ECOPOLITICAL’ IMPERATIVE AND THE JANTA PARLIAMENT
the imperative of bringing the ecological question on to the centre-stage of politics
People’s Parliament: Agrarian Crisis Deepened During COVID Pandemic
The house adopted a series of resolutions that will be tabled before parliamentarians in the run-up to the monsoon session
Jan Sarokar – People’s Policy for Post COVID-19 Times, August 2020
Opportunity to redesign our economy towards generating tens of millions of ecologically sustainable and dignified livelihoods.
Press Release by Janta Parliament (जनता संसद) 18 Aug. 2020
Janta Parliament calls on urgent action for ecological security
The Story of Baiga Women of Kutelidadar
Addressing their ‘darr (fear)’ of dealing with state agencies, a group of Baiga women tackled their water scarcity problem
How an ordinary Sarpanch is making a difference
Media such as loud speakers at religious places, voice calling, SMSs, Whatsapp groups, public notice boards and Facebook were used.
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council- Leh (India), How autonomous and how democratic?
This case study analyses the extent and nature of democracy seen in the example of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development…
Tosamaidan- A zone of peace and resilience in Kashmir (India)
This case study describes and analyses a non-violent movement to save a Himalayan landscape of enormous ecological and livelihood…
Towards Decentralised Urban Governance: The Case of Bhuj City, Kachchh, India
The decentralisation process coordinated by the five CSOs along with active citizens in the city is an inspiring example of bottom-up democracy.