Politics
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.
Politics: Books, Reports & Newsletters
Living As If Another World Were Possible: Goodbye, David Graeber! By: Daniel FischerSeptember 9, 2020
Politics: Visual & Audio
Resources Home Resources for Politics: Visual & Audio (Inlcues Presentations & slideshow) Shaikh Ghulam Rasool, chair…
Jamguda shows the path
Community Rights of Jamguda were recognized - rights such as those to manage the forest, to collect and sell minor forest produce, etc. - in 2010.
Ignited Minds: Elango turns Kuthambakkam village as a model village
....the story of R Elango, a Dalit leader turning his village into a Model village in India
Conservation through democratic governance
Can an adivasi community save the forests and wildlife they live amidst? According to the sentiments echoed by about 160 Soliga adivasis, the answer is a resounding yes. Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary is part of an ecologically critical landscape in the meeting point of the Western and Eastern Ghats, known for its plant and animal diversity, including elephant, tiger, and gaur. Soligas have resided in the area for several centuries.
‘Ugly Indians’ clean up Bangalore
The Bangaloreans in the Ugly Indians civic group have spent every week of the past year trawling the city's central business district with face masks, gloves, buckets, broomsticks and mops. Their mission is to "spot-fix" Bangalore, dirty street by dirty street, and has inspired the confidence to throw their "Ugliness Challenge" at other cities.
Tribals prefer traditional way of governance over Panchayati Raj
Adivasis, especially from the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, have expressed their desire to continue their traditional forms of governance rather than adopt the uniform panchayat raj institutions
The story of a principled chief conservator of forests in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
A single man is showing what perseverance can do, in regenerating and protecting the forests of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh. The idea is spreading to neighbouring villages in Odisha, too.
The Grassroots Lokpal
How beneficiary-led monitoring of government-run services, such as ration shops and rural healthcare, functions in a few states.