45-Multi-stakeholder Approach - The New Development Paradigm.

Abstract

In India, collectivism was quite common both in terms of habitation and natural resource management. Whether it is management of forests, water, pasture land or a community, groups of people of a particular hue, or a particular caste, were coming together, taking decisions and acting for a common cause. With increasing globalization and urbanization, and competition for limited resources, the collectivism is certainly challenged. However, the same phenomena are used to explain some of the recent changes in collective behaviour of the people, and Multi-stakeholder Approach is perhaps the latest form of collectivism that is increasingly being tried out.