Category: SAFP Consulting

  • Focus Areas

      SAFP  Focus areas are: Partnering with women on the margins to increase resources Supporting Youth Leaving Care Advocacy and Safe guarding for children and vulnerable adults The blog has reports from SAFP peoples work shared below.  

  • 2018/19 Report of activities- SAFP Consultant Sunita Kotnala

    Sunita Kotnala is a member of SAFP since 2007 and was nominated as an Advisory Board Member- Strategy and Governance ( 2009-2016). Following changes to the NGO management rules in India, she is now working with SAFP in a pro-bono capacity from time to time at the UN DESA for HLPF related activities for monitoring…

  • IFAD Consultancy Case Study by S Kotnala Pastoralists re-establish traditional ecosystems, ILC

    https://www.landcoalition.org/en/regions/asia/resources/pastoralists-re-establish-traditional-ecosystems-and-customary-grazing-rights More than 600 Gujjar agro-pastoralist families – due for relocation from the vicinity of the Sariska Tiger Reserve Protected Area in the Alwar district – took the lead in engaging with state actors to claim their grazing and traditional water harvesting rights and preserve the Oran – a traditional ecosystem unique to the forest communities of…

  • IFAD Consultancy Case Study by S Kotnala Creating a grassroot institution for common forest resource management, ILC

    https://www.landcoalition.org/en/resources/creating-grassroots-institution-common-forest-resources-management In 1997 Seva Mandir created an informal network of Forest Protection Committees, the Van Utthan Sansthan (VUS). In 2003 VUS acquired a formal status as a nongovernmental organisation that protects and manages 67,000 hectares of forestland in more than 240 villages in Udaipur, Rajasthan, under Joint Forest Management (JFM). Today VUS successfully engages with…

  • IFAD Consultancy Case Study by S Kotnala Landless farmers turn wasteland 2016

    425 landless farmers turned wasteland into into cultivable land in Telengana, Andhra Pradesh In India. Sunita Gupta Kotnalla documents this struggle for ILC and SDPPA in 2016 In 20 years, 425 poor landless tenant farmers in the villages of Telangana State, India, transformed 1400 acres of infertile and idle wasteland into cultivable land using dryland…