What We Do?

READ Career Centre of Excellence for Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Livelihoods (NRM)

Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods analyses and extends this premise to show unequivocally that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches, leading to development based on the needs and knowledge of local resource users.

We explore the innovative approaches for establishing and sustaining participation and collective decision-making, good practice for research, and challenges for future developments. This themes we are working, covers a wide range of natural resources – including forests and soils, and water and management units such as watersheds and common property areas. We offer on how to make research participatory while maintaining rigor and high-quality biological science, different forms of participation, and ways to scale up and extend participatory approaches and successful initiatives.

The programs will focus on livelihood security (food, water, energy, economic and social) for communities that live in and around protected areas and other priority sites, as well as help reduce pressure on natural resources that they depend on. 

For further information, please contact

READ Career Centre of Excellence for Natural Resource Management & Sustainable Livelihoods

P. O. Box XXX, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal

Telephone/Fax: +977 56 420266

E-mail: readcc.nrm@gmail.com;

                info@readcc.com.np              

URL:   http://www.readcc.com.np