Neema Pathak Broome

Neema Pathak Broome, India. Neema Pathak Broome, is a member of Kalpavriksh, a non-profit organization working on environmental and social issues, where she coordinates the Conservation and Livelihoods program. She also coordinates activities of the Consortium supporting Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Territories and Areas (ICCAs) in South Asia. She is on the team that facilitates the Community Forestry Resource Rights Advocacy and Learning Process (CFRLA) in India. Her interests lie in researching, documenting, understanding, facilitating and advocating for processes towards decentralized, equitable, diverse, and context specific forms of conservation governance.
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On the Cusp: Reframing Democracy and Well-Being in Korchi, India

Women Parishad's meeting, January 2018. @Neema Pathak Broome

by Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende Introduction Mainstream governance and development models – characterised by seemingly democratic but inherently centralised and top-down governance systems and extractive, commercially motivated, capitalist economic policies – have failed to achieve minimum levels of well-being for a very large part of humanity. They have in fact caused large-scale human and environmental injustice. However, there are also countertrends either resisting current models or developing and […]