Empowering Local Communities and Civil Society Organizations in the Western Ghats to Use Environmental Impact Assessments as a Conservation Tool

Empower local communities and civil society groups in the Western Ghats to systematically engage with environmental impact, forest clearance and related environmental decision-making processes; and strengthen the capacity of grassroots civil society to effectively participate in these processes. Use the environmental impact assessment tool to monitor dam, railway and other development projects with potentially adverse biodiversity impacts. Provide public comments on proposals for forest diversion to relevant statutory bodies.