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.

The Niyamgiri Movement as a Landmark of Democratic Process

‘The mountain is not the Government’s to sell’, as many Dongria have asserted.

Politics: Alternative Products

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Livelihoods: Alternative Products

Resources Home Resources for Livelihoods: Alternative Products & Services Sustainable Energy and Livelihoods: A collection of…

Politics: Networks

Resources Home Resources for Politics: Networks Reclaiming Democracy from Below: From the Comtemporary State Capotalist System to…

Politics: Tools

Resources Home Resources for Politics: Tools Pune Budget book 2015-16, converted to a searchable, usable excel…

Politics: Websites

Resources Home Resources for Politics: Websites Ecologise.in is an initiative by the Alliance for Sustainability and Equity to…

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.