Research, Consultancy and Publications

Samrakshan team members either in their individual capacities or institutionally, have worked on several advisory, research and consultancy assignments. Some salient ones are:

1. World Bank supported Non Technical Lending Assistance to Government of India for effective management of Land Acquisition and R&R (along with ERM India). Samrakshan has been contracted to carry out an assessment in Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary as part of this exercise.
2. Member - IUCN WCPA/CEESP Task Force on Protected Areas, Equity and Livelihoods.
3. Member - Working Group on Wildlife, Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and Animal Welfare set up by the Planning Commission for devising proposals of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for the XI Five Year plan.
4. Designing the Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods Improvement Project (BCRLIP), a GEF/WB financed project of the Government of India in six high priority landscapes in the country (along with PEACE, NR International and ELDF) – Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
5. Lessons Learnt from the India Eco development Project – Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
6. Biodiversity Programme Study - An Evaluation of GEF’s Biodiversity Portfolio.
7. Reforming Technical Cooperation in Multilateral Projects – A Study for the United Nations Development Programme.
8. Irrigation as a Pivot for Livelihood Security among Adivasis in Central India – International Water Management Institute.
9. All India Survey of National Parks and Sanctuaries Indian Institute of Public Administration.
10. Enforcement Assistance, Capacity Building and Monitoring Wildlife Trade – TRAFFIC India/ WWF India.
11. Editor, Monthly Monitor; a monthly publication of Oxfam (India) Trust, on issues relating to socio-economic and policy developments of relevance to grassroots organisations.
12. Environmental and Social Impacts of Large Dams in India - A study commissioned by the World Commission on Dams through the Indian Institute of Public Administration.

Samrakshan team members also have the following publications to their credit:

• Sharma, Arpan and Asmita Kabra Displacement as a Conservation Tool: Lessons from Kuno wildlife sanctuary). 2007. in Shahabuddin, Ghazala and Mahesh Rangarajan (eds.) Making Conservation Work. Permanent Black, New Delhi.
• Asmita Kabra. Wildlife Protection: Reintroduction and Relocation. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol.41 No.14. 08 April 2006.
• Asmita Kabra Impact of Involuntary Displacement on a Tribal Community (A Case Study of the Sahariya Adivasi Displaced from Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh). 2006. Mehta, Aasha Kapoor and Andrew Shepherd (eds.). Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in India. p.197-221. Sage Publications. New Delhi.
• Singh, Shekhar and Arpan Sharma. Ecodevelopment in India in Getting biodiversity projects to work: towards more effective conservation and development/ edited by Thomas O. McShane and Michael P. Wells. Columbia University Press 2004.
• Asmita Kabra. Chronic Poverty and Vulnerable Social Groups: The case of the Sahariya adivasi community displaced from Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhy Pradesh. 2004. Working Paper 10, Chronic Poverty Research Center. Indian Institute of Public Administration. New Delhi.
• Sharma, Arpan. Displacement from Protected Areas and its implications for conservation and livelihoods – The case of Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh. Social Change: June-September 2003: Vol.33 Nos. 2 &3.
• Sharma, A and Singh S. Profiles of Selected National Parks and Sanctuaries in India. Mimeo. Indian Institute of Public Administration 2002.
• “Environmental and Social Impact of Large Dams in India”, ed. Shekhar Singh and Pranab Banerji. Indian Institute of Public Administration: 2002. New Delhi.
• Singh, S. and Sharma, A. “Towards a Biodiversity Conservation Prioritisation Methodology” in Singh et al (eds.) 2000." Setting Biodiversity Conservation Priorities for India" WWF India, New Delhi, India.
• “Displacement and Rehabilitation of an Adivasi Settlement: The case of Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh”, in Economic and political weekly, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 29, July 19, 2003. New Delhi.
• “Urban Mal-planning and Policy-Induced Disasters”, in Oxfam (India) Trust’s “India Disasters Report”. Oxford University Press: 2000. New Delhi.