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Title
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Impact Assessment Study : Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri
Main Report (March 04, 2010) - Bharat Krishnan, Gouthami
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Description
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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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Coverage
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Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
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Creator
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Bharat Krishnan, Gouthami
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Date
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4 March 2010
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Identifier
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.doc
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Language
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English
