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Mission |
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Sustainable Development, with emphasis on empowerment of rural poor, social justice and equity.
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Operating Philosophy |
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Vasundhara’s outlook and approach is defined by the following beliefs:
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Local communities have the greatest stake in sustainable management forest and other natural resources. |
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Local communities have the capability to manage forests and other natural resources on a sustainable basis. |
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Local natural resources can be used as a base for village development and sustainable livelihoods. |
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Growing commercialization of human-nature interface has its greatest impact on the life and livelihood of the poor and marginalized, and hence a truly sustainable development ought to oppose this trend. |
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The devastating trend of global commercialization can be checked by respecting and promoting indigenous knowledge systems and practices, and ensuring a sustainable utilization and management of natural resources by local indigenous communities. |
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Objectives |
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To facilitate capability enhancement at community level for management of local natural resources on a collective basis. |
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To promote equity and social justice in community management of local natural resources. |
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To facilitate establishment of control of local natural resources, esp. forests with local communities; advocacy for policy changes in this direction. |
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To facilitate mechanisms for support to community institutions and enhance the capabilities of support mechanisms and organizations |
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Approach |
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Right based |
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Democratization: Economic and Political |
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Equity and Social Justice |
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Role |
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We see our role as a process facilitator and catalyst in developing a supportive and enabling environment for community based natural resources governance. Equally important is our role in building local capacities to strive for changes in the direction of democratization of natural resources governance.
Vasundhara as a support organization has been taking up research and advocacy efforts directed towards Policy changes. Another pre-requisite for stable community based resource management systems is stable and sustainable institutional arrangement at community level, local capacities for resource management. In view of this it has been our endeavor to take up capacity building initiatives. Communities who have the critical dependency on forest and other natural resources also need to be empowered through livelihood enhancing initiatives. Enabling the depending community to take initiatives in regard of livelihood improvement.
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