The Grassroots Institute
The Grassroots Institute aims to undertake innovative research, strengthen human development initiatives and take appropriate grassroots field action to empower marginalized communities and Indigenous people to bring about environmental and social consciousness as a societal change agent. The Grassroots Institute envisions effecting positive change through participation in a world in which local communities and First Nations who have been marginalized by environmental degradation, poverty, conflict and other forms of injustice gain control over their natural and biocultural resources, lives and livelihoods, and the policy decisions that affect their lives directly or indirectly. The Grassroots Institute was founded in 2005 in India and over these many years the Institute organized lot many IFTs (intensive field trainings) and several Summer Field Schools for the students. These Summer Field Schools offered high-quality interdisciplinary practical education giving grassroots exposure to the students. The Summer Field Schools were designed to teach students about critical/local problems and train them to do field work, field research and community development. Field exercises and exposure complimented classroom lectures and helped students develop skills needed for correlating the theory with the practice. The Grassroots Institute is recently shifted and established in Canada. In Canada, the Institute considers field-based programs in Alberta and British Columbia with a campaign under evolution to be operated worldwide. The Grassroots Institute is strategically evolving partnerships in South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
