Our Work

Earth Rights Institute is designed to be an equilateral knowledge platform, where local people collaborate with academics and development professionals both local and foreign by exchanging skills, experiences and knowledge to solve crucial development issues such as widespread poverty, land right disputes and environmental degradation. ERI believes that the empowerment of local communities begins with re-conceptualizing the role and meaning of ‘expert’ in development models. We are bringing development studies back to local communities so that development knowledge and strategies are cultivated locally, and ‘experts’ of sustainable development are formed at the grassroots. This means that the power and authority to manage local development, lies with the local people.

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