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Empowering Local Communities and Civil Society Organizations in the Nilgiris to Use the Environmental Impact Assessment as a Conservation Tool
Grantee Name: 
Environics Trust
HOTSPOT
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$35,999
DATES
Dec 2011
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Jul 2013
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HOTSPOT
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$35,999
DATES
Dec 2011
-
Jul 2013

Empower civil society to systematically engage with the EIA process by undertaking capacity building, monitoring EIA reports and approvals, conducting alternative "citizens" EIAs, and assisting communities impacted by faulty EIAs respond to issues of urgent concern. Establish a local unit of the EIA Response Centre in Nilgiris district to keep effective watch on EIA-related issues in the southern Western Ghats.