Community Stewardship Pilots in Meghalaya and Odisha
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About
Project brief
The Community Stewardship Pilots in Meghalaya and Odisha supported by LGTVP, a global philanthropy, is meant to critically examine, advance and flesh out the implementation plan for community-led conservation action in Meghalaya and Odisha. The ‘Community Stewardship’ initiative aims to evolve new market and non-market strategies to serve as an alternative to existing carbon markets paradigm.
Type of Project
Capacity building
Project area
Odisha & Meghalaya
Thematic area
Forest/ IL &PC governance
Project status
Ongoing
About
Type of Project
Research/ study
Project area
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha
Thematic area
Forest/ land
Project status
Completed
Forest right act and the need for digitization
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to improve tenure security, especially for customary and unrecorded rights, through tenure documentation.
Digitization is seen as a strategic pathway for tenure formalization, offering efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency at a low cost, while also providing easy access to formal financing and public entitlements.
About
Type of Project
Research/ study
Project area
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha
Thematic area
Forest/ land
Project status
Completed
Forest right act and the need for digitization
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to improve tenure security, especially for customary and unrecorded rights, through tenure documentation.
Digitization is seen as a strategic pathway for tenure formalization, offering efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency at a low cost, while also providing easy access to formal financing and public entitlements.
Approach
Landstack will work closely with the FES team as a strategic knowledge partner, to develop and refine the operational design, strategies, and implementation plan for stewardship pilots. Its responsibilities include challenging existing approaches, facilitating discussions to surface new possibilities, and providing managerial, technical, and strategic inputs to align with the initiative’s vision of evolving market and non-market alternatives to traditional carbon markets.
Contact
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Richa Joshi
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Arman Mohanty
Data, coding, cleaning, index, web application related information
Himanshu Baranwal
Community health, FGDs, COVID case data, reporting
Omkar Modak
Survey, relief work
Contact
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Pranab Ranjan Choudhury
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Anjali Aggarwal
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Pentile thong
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Impact
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Over the past 1.5 years, we have deployed the Stewardship Assessment Toolkit in 18 villages across two Indigenous ecosystems in India—the Central Indian Tribal Belt and the Northeast.
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Disseminated findings from toolkit deployment which highlight the widespread presence of community stewardship, on various national and international platforms, including the World Bank Land Conference 2024, Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024, Commons Convening 2024 and the India Land and Development Conference (2022, 2023, and 2024).
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Landstack, Pranab Ranjan Choudhury recently featured on BBC’s Cool It Down podcast, now streaming on Spotify (https://lnkd.in/g_shjdVd), to discuss our approach of community stewardship and its relevance in today’s climate action era.
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Formation of the Community Stewardship Coalition (CSC) comprising of FES, Landstack, Climate Rise Alliance, Common Ground, and LGT Venture Philanthropy at Dasra Philanthropy Week in February 2024
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A Training workshop on Forest governance, Community Stewardship and Carbon markets from October 1-7, 2024, at HIPA Shimla which brought together 27 participants from 17 organizations, including leading NGOs such as PRADAN, Himmotthan Society, FES, Gram Vikas, WWF, CEEW, Centre for Pastoralism, National Land Coalition, along with funding organizations such as Axis Bank Foundation
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Multidisciplinary scaling of Community Stewardship Assessment Toolkit in pastoral and coastal ecosystems