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Designing Digital Infrastructure for the Commons
September 3, 2026
At Common Ground, we are working towards pooling open-source tools for the community-led governance of Commons and landscapes, and building the shared infrastructure needed for tools, data, and knowledge systems to talk t...
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All Things Shared
2026
January-April 2026
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2026
Designing Digital Infrastructure for the Commons
At Common Ground, we are working towards pooling open-source tools for the community-led governance ...
2025
IDR Explains | Forest Rights Act (FRA)
In just four questions, learn what FRA is, why it was enacted, how it aims to benefit India’s forest...
2025
IDR Explains | Commons
In just 10 minutes, learn how India’s commons power its people, ecology, and economy—through example...
2025
Sam-Poshit Living: Rethinking Sustainability Through the Lens of Triba...
By Sudarshan Iyengar
Sam-Poshit Living: Rethinking Sustainability Through the Lens of Tribal Wisd...
2025
Asha Akka’s Story from Kolar
by Koushik Yanamandram
After a couple of hours of a drive, on the highway connecting Bengaluru w...
2025
Finding Common Ground: Co-creating and Collaborating for Impact at Sca...
07.08.2024
Common Ground, a coalition of over 20 organisations, is dedicated to addressing ...
2025
From One Village to Many: A Community-led Shift in Forest Governance i...
Common_Ground 1 May 2, 2025, 2:29pm
In the tribal belt of Littipara block (Pakur district),...
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Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Commons: Community Participation and Data Governance
The report examines how shared digital infrastructure for Commons and landscape governance can be built to centre community participation, data rights, and local realities.
Rebuilding Ecological Processes Essential for Landscape Restoration
This playbook is for field practitioners, community mobilisers, village elders, frontline officers of different government departments and leaders of community-based organisations.
Understanding a Landscape to Plan Its Restoration
This playbook is intended for field practitioners, community mobilisers, village elders, frontlineofficers of different government departments and leaders of community-based organi...
Conducting a Transect Walk
In rural India, the commons-our gochars (pastures), forests, and water bodies-are the bedrock of local livelihoods. They are not merely "wastelands"; they are vital production syst...
At the First Mile, First in Line
How Gram Panchayat Help Desks in Jharkhand are bridging the digital divide and rebuilding everyday governance.
An Assessment of Tribal Incomes from Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in Ten Districts of Jharkhan...
The Design Features of an Orientation Workshop on DAJGUA by Block Level Functionaries
Provide Block Development Officers (BDOs)/ Block Level Functionaries with a structured guide to conduct a condensed orientation workshop for their Block Level Implementation Teams ...
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All Things Shared
2026
January-April 2026
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2025
Koraput’s Gram Sabhas Organise to Manage and Benefit from Kendu ...
In Koraput district’s Boipariguda block, 103 Gram Sabhas have formed the Boipariguda Mahasangh inten...
2025
Keepers of the Forest: Adivasi Women Lead a Climate-Resilient Response...
In Odisha’s forested Koraput district, Adivasi women from over a 100 villages are leading acom...
2025
Livelihoods Through Forest Conservation
The majority livelihoods of people living among the forests are dependent on the health (protection,...
2025
Claiming gender parity through informed collaborative action
This is the story of women forest community to claim gender parity by collaborating action with info...
2025
Clinching NTFP Deal
This is the story of how Communities from Kalahandi dist obtained profitable incomes from their NTFP...
2025
Conservation and Promotion of Tribal Arts & Handicrafts: Better L...
Often many Tribal communities are proficient in tribal arts that have a unique and niche value. Also...
2025
Empowerment and Economic Independence
It was a movement of gender parity and economic empowerment of women from the village of Taljhari vi...
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