Litany of disillusionment

Ravaged by ethnic strife, environmental disaster and crushing poverty, Ethiopians anticipate an uncertain future.

Arid politics

Each year the world loses $42.3 billion because of desertification. But when its leaders meet to discuss the fast-spreading problem, all they can …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

ADB woos critical NGOs

Despite the Asian Development Bank setting up a social dimensions unit to liaise with NGOs and involve them in projects the bank funds, Asian …

Move to nationalise NGOs

The Planning Commission's efforts to network voluntary agencies has received a lot of flak from the non-government sector.

Same problem, differing approaches

The government is roping in NGOs in the fight against pollution whereas industry is trying cleaner manufacturing processes

Drop by drop

FROM INDIFFERENCE TO ACTIVE PARTICIPATION: SIX CASE STUDIES OF NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOCIAL ORGANISATION·Frances Sinha and …

All bark, no bite

More noise than action: this is what the painfully resurrected wildlife board of India indulged in after a yawning gap of nine years

Money matters

As the first-ever assembly of the 161-member Global Environment Facility (GEF) draws near, many non-governmental organisations are left out in …

Grassroots NGOs by women for women

Book>> Grassroots ngos by Women for Women by Femida Handy, Meenaz Kassam, Suzanne Feeney, Bhagyashree Ranade

Puppeteer with no strings

Documentary>> Katputli by Sudheer Gupta Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust and Prasar Bharati 30 minutes

'I don't expect largescale policy initiatives in the environmental sector'

JONATHAN LASH heads the Washington-based World Resource Institute (WRI) and is the co-chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable …

Negotiations on biological resources inch forward

The conservation and sustainable management of biological resources was high on the international agenda in February 2004. Representatives of …

SRI LANKA

A big shot at nylon

Police fire kills 1, and Goa's Thapar DuPont nylon venture takes a dive

Urban Wilderness

A study on urban biodiversity is relevant to understand the human impact on environment

ARGENTINA

Monkey business

Dream ride

A non-polluting, community-owned mass transport system for Mumbai

Wither civil society?

Many have become even more marginalised after 25 years of Left Front rule in Bengal

Sapped

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Retrograde

Projected future: more clearance, less environment

Durga's decibels

Hoarding the rain

Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra

Towards a global anti-poverty convention