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Tree Fall Gap This document has been created for the Keystone context where a ecological concept has been used to interpret institutional functioning and strategy. It has become a guiding document for periodic changes in structure, programmatic focus and institutional pathways.
There are two versions of this document - one made in 2004 and one in 2014.
At a conceptual level, a tree fall gap is a syndrome which takes place in old tropical rain forests. Due to decay, over time, old trees with large canopies fall and create a gap in the canopy. Through this gap, new and young species grow with the help of a sudden stream of sunlight and nutrients. During course of time, these new species get to the canopy and fill up. This is nature’s way of keeping a system stable.
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Impact Assessment Study : Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri
Main Report (March 04, 2010) - Bharat Krishnan, Gouthami Keystone Foundation has completed 15 years working in the field of environment and development in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR). Keystone now has a team of 52 staff members of mixed backgrounds; it has 6 resource centers in the NBR, with the head office at Kotagiri. In the past 15 years, Keystone has commissioned three major evaluations of its work – John Kurien (1999); Janet & Bharat (2003); Patricia Shanley (2008); apart from conducting several organization building exercises and restructuring, the latest being in 2008. Having completed 15 years of work in the NBR, Keystone has now commissioned an Impact Assessment Exercise with the primary purpose of: “to assess the impact of Keystone on different stakeholders groups and the social, economic, cultural, natural etc. environment, with a view to contribute to Keystone’s future positioning and role.” A further secondary output of the study was to identify indicators for outcomes and impact that could be used by Keystone in future evaluations and studies. A third element was to assess the quantum of financial and human resources, infrastructure and practices required for differing degrees and scale of impacts – and this is something the consultants could not do justice to, given the fact that it was difficult to establish attribution to the planned outcomes of Keystone and hence correlation to resources was not possible.
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Evaluation of: Conservation, Enterprise and Livelihoods (2002-2007)- Patricia Shanley This report is an evaluation of the Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) Management project of the Keystone Foundation in Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India. Located in the Western Ghats in Southern India, the project’s focus is the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
(NBR). Wth an area of 5,520 square km and 200,000 tribal (adivasi) peoples, the reserve hosts exceptional floral and faunal biodiversity. The report has been commissioned by the
Foundation at the request of the Ford Foundation which has supported Keystone’s NTFP Project during the last six years.
The full title of this report is -
Evaluation of: Conservation, Enterprise and Livelihoods:
Efforts through Sustainable Non-Timber Forest Product Management in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve.
A project implemented by the Keystone Foundation with support from the Ford Foundation
2002-2007
Date of report: March 17, 2008
Evaluated by: Patricia Shanley, PhD
Center for International Forestry Research
P.O. Box 0113 BOCBD
Bogor 16000
Indonesia
Phone: 62 251 622 622
P.Shanley@cgiar.org
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Report of the Evaluation of Keystone Foundation (1993 - 2003) - Janet Seeley and Bharat Krishnan This Resource full title is :
Report of the Evaluation of Keystone Foundation (1993-2003) and Recommendations for a Road Map for the next 10 years
By Janet Seeley and Bharat Krishnan
14th –24th December 2003
This evaluation of Keystone Foundation was organisational and strategic, providing an overall assessment of the work of the organisation and ideas for the future. It was not a technical evaluation of a single field or project.
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Buzzing in the Blue Mountains - An Assessment of the work of Keystone, Kotagiri - John Kurien This evaluation study and associated report was created by John Kurien (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram) in June 1999 for Keystone Foundation's upcoming work in the landscape.
The full title of the Report is -
Buzzing in the Blue Mountains : The Strategies and Dilemmas of Voluntary Social Action Among Tribal Communities in the Nilgiris. As Assessment of the Work of Keystone, Kotagiri. John Kurien. June 1999
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Perspective Plan _1999-2003 In this Keystone aims to work in areas of Natural resources & Rural Development with a conscious goal to enhance the quality of life and the environment, IN apiculture programe we can find the appropriate technology, implementation, field studies, increase of income, integration between Apiculture & NTFP, Marketting, biodiversity and conservation. In marketting programme the procurement and pricing, production , processing and storage, marketting. In Biodiversity programme the initiative in biodiversity programme by The KF, The future plans, policy, research, action and networking. An Environment and Development centre in the nilgiris, The need for Keystone centre.
