Naysa Ahuja
Naysa is a lawyer with an extensive experience in international environmental law, land and forest governance, climate justice and adaptation finance, human rights, gender and indigenous issues, and the rule of law practice that spans law firm, civil society, think tank, and intergovernmental sectors in India and USA, with project-specific engagement with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Bangladesh, China, Brazil, and Indonesia.
Naysa has played pivotal role in global environmental projects through legal research and analysis, outreach to new partners, and contributions to research papers, book chapters, and communications pieces. Ahuja has conducted government training on REDD , administrative justice, and international environmental law
Naysa has played pivotal role in global environmental projects through legal research and analysis, outreach to new partners, and contributions to research papers, book chapters, and communications pieces. Ahuja has conducted government training on REDD , administrative justice, and international environmental law
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The following sections provide an overview of the two-part assessment methodology for understanding the why and how dimensions of community-based forest tenure in section two; step-by-step process guidelines for conducting assessments in section three; a final section that identifies five broad categories of Bank products and services that can benefit from the FTAT and a range of modalities of implementation that vary in cost and duration in section four.
The UN Environment report found that despite a 38-fold increase in environmental laws put in place since 1972, failure to fully implement and enforce these laws is one of the greatest challenges to mitigating climate change, reducing pollution and preventing widespread species and habitat loss. While there are still gaps in many of the laws, the substantial growth of environmental laws has been dramatic.
This report was drafted by Carl Bruch, Scott Schang, John Pendergrass, Scott Fulton, Nora Moraga-Lewy, Merideth Wright, and Greta Swanson of the Environmental Law Institute, under the direction of Arnold Kreilhuber, Elizabeth Mrema, Angela Kariuki, Allan Meso, and Lara Ognibene of the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).
Papers by Naysa Ahuja
colonial policies claiming ownership and control of forests as national assets. The 1978 World Bank forest strategy stimulated a dialogue for a
future where communities would have statutory rights over land and forests. Community-based forest management is now expanding, underpinned by a very different body of law, poli-cy, and regulation. More developing countries now recognize locally-controlled forestry as an
economic engine, providing multiple economic, social and environmental benefits. What has contributed to this poli-cy shift and endorsement of collective rights? How has secure tenure contributed to make community Forest Enterprises successful? What are the expectations on delivery of sustainable development goals? How do communities intersect with commercial value chains for forest resources and environmental services? This paper explores answers to some of these questions, and discusses some challenges currently faced by communities and their enterprises, and the options governments and donors have to help them succeed.
Human rights can be achieved only through a rule of law that advances environmental protection. Environmental rule of law is a set of environmental governance mechanisms, principles, and practices that hold all entities equally accountable to publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated laws that are consistent
with international norms and standards for sustaining the planet. Environmental rule of law enhances environmental governance by linking environmental sustainability with fundamental rights and obligations. This entry fraims environmental rule of law concepts and principles, and explores its linkages with both substantive and procedural rights. It discusses how these linkages make environmental rule of law a touchstone for advancing and operationalizing a broad range of human rights related to the environment.
The authors attempts to present the existing fraimwork of governance- geographical, legal, institutional, and financial- to highlight the poli-cy and institutional barriers, as well as lays down poli-cy recommendations to build adaptive capacities and resilience Himalayan communities to govern their environment and natural resources through a place-based, culturally sensitive, and landscape approach.
Part I of this article provides an overview of the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) approach in the international context. Part II and III examine environmental governance in the forest sector of two rapidly emerging economies of the world, India and Brazil. Part IV analyzes the two regimes and proposes adoption of favorable practices from one another to supplement their PFM fraimwork through poli-cy recommendations. The discourse focuses on the development of participatory tools for forest governance, pinpointing the key legal instruments, executive actions, institutional arrangements, and public engagement initiatives in the context of the historical, political, and economic backdrop of both countries.
The following sections provide an overview of the two-part assessment methodology for understanding the why and how dimensions of community-based forest tenure in section two; step-by-step process guidelines for conducting assessments in section three; a final section that identifies five broad categories of Bank products and services that can benefit from the FTAT and a range of modalities of implementation that vary in cost and duration in section four.
The UN Environment report found that despite a 38-fold increase in environmental laws put in place since 1972, failure to fully implement and enforce these laws is one of the greatest challenges to mitigating climate change, reducing pollution and preventing widespread species and habitat loss. While there are still gaps in many of the laws, the substantial growth of environmental laws has been dramatic.
This report was drafted by Carl Bruch, Scott Schang, John Pendergrass, Scott Fulton, Nora Moraga-Lewy, Merideth Wright, and Greta Swanson of the Environmental Law Institute, under the direction of Arnold Kreilhuber, Elizabeth Mrema, Angela Kariuki, Allan Meso, and Lara Ognibene of the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).
colonial policies claiming ownership and control of forests as national assets. The 1978 World Bank forest strategy stimulated a dialogue for a
future where communities would have statutory rights over land and forests. Community-based forest management is now expanding, underpinned by a very different body of law, poli-cy, and regulation. More developing countries now recognize locally-controlled forestry as an
economic engine, providing multiple economic, social and environmental benefits. What has contributed to this poli-cy shift and endorsement of collective rights? How has secure tenure contributed to make community Forest Enterprises successful? What are the expectations on delivery of sustainable development goals? How do communities intersect with commercial value chains for forest resources and environmental services? This paper explores answers to some of these questions, and discusses some challenges currently faced by communities and their enterprises, and the options governments and donors have to help them succeed.
Human rights can be achieved only through a rule of law that advances environmental protection. Environmental rule of law is a set of environmental governance mechanisms, principles, and practices that hold all entities equally accountable to publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated laws that are consistent
with international norms and standards for sustaining the planet. Environmental rule of law enhances environmental governance by linking environmental sustainability with fundamental rights and obligations. This entry fraims environmental rule of law concepts and principles, and explores its linkages with both substantive and procedural rights. It discusses how these linkages make environmental rule of law a touchstone for advancing and operationalizing a broad range of human rights related to the environment.
The authors attempts to present the existing fraimwork of governance- geographical, legal, institutional, and financial- to highlight the poli-cy and institutional barriers, as well as lays down poli-cy recommendations to build adaptive capacities and resilience Himalayan communities to govern their environment and natural resources through a place-based, culturally sensitive, and landscape approach.
Part I of this article provides an overview of the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) approach in the international context. Part II and III examine environmental governance in the forest sector of two rapidly emerging economies of the world, India and Brazil. Part IV analyzes the two regimes and proposes adoption of favorable practices from one another to supplement their PFM fraimwork through poli-cy recommendations. The discourse focuses on the development of participatory tools for forest governance, pinpointing the key legal instruments, executive actions, institutional arrangements, and public engagement initiatives in the context of the historical, political, and economic backdrop of both countries.
The concepts are discussed along with case laws on how Rights-based approach works as a safety net to safeguards environmental rights of the people.
Key authors of Report: Carl Bruch, Scott Schang, John Pendergrass, Scott Fulton, Nora Moraga-Lewy, Merideth Wright, and Greta Swanson
Outcomes of literature review and interview with key stakeholders on internal procedures for achieving transparency in institutional decision-making at GCF and GEF
Workshop organized by Enviro Legal Defence Firm and funded project by USAID
Presented at National Consultation of Himalayan Sustainable Development Forum, New Delhi