Project Title: Learning to ‘Leave No One Behind’: Equitable and sustainable livelihoods in natural resource governance (Nepal and India) – developing an international research cluster
Project Partners: University of Edinburgh and Forest Action Nepal
Duration: May 2021 – Dec 2023
Project description: The research cluster will develop insights on how interventions aiming at supporting equitable and sustainable livelihoods in natural resource governance can best learn, reflect, adapt and exchange insights to support achievement of the SDGs and to ensure they ‘leave no one behind’. There is currently no network to allow for sharing, learning, reflections and best practice across India and Nepal though they share similar natural resource governance issues. This project develops research links and capabilities which will allow to develop a cluster between academics, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in Nepal and India. We bring these groups together as equal partners to (1) generate a shared vision of the most pressing research needs; (2) explore the role of learning from previous and ongoing interventions in natural resource governance (within and between institutions) and its potential in facilitating and directing positive change; and (3) strengthen networks and trial and reflect on technology platforms which support on-going dialogue and future funding applications.
These aims will be achieved to the activities: 1) cluster-building through current networks; 2) professionally facilitated workshop in Kathmandu, 3) evaluation of technology platforms. The outputs are a shared research agenda and strengthened networks with the ability to communicate with each other in the longer term, disseminated knowledge on tested technology platforms across institutions, and a toolkit of reflection tools to improve institutions’ learning from interventions.
