The Centre for Local Democracy, a unit of the School of Continuing Education at Azim Premji University is engaged in research and documentation of good practices in local governance in the thematic areas of Panchayati Raj, Forest Rights Act, PESA, MNREGA and others. The centre has taken up a project of documenting field stories of implementation of forest rights from 8 – 10 states. Its looking for consultants to take up writing the field based case studies.
Responsibilities:
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To do the field work gathering primary qualitative data on the field implementation of the forest rights, studied from the forest dweller communities point of view.
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To write analytically credible case studies capturing the enablers and barriers of recognising the individual and community forest rights and related entitlements
