Reports

Mobile technology is being used to monitor elections, optimize traffic, discourage corruption, encourage citizen participation, pay bills, democratize media. With close to a billion mobile phone connections and a Digital India campaign to connect every village by 2020, India’s mobile revolution offers an unprecedented opportunity to bring good governance to the farthest corners of the country.

From May 16 to 26, ten GAIA member organisations, partners conducted waste and brand audits in 15 cities in India. The results show that MNCs PepsiCo, Unilever, Coca-Cola, P&G, Mondelez, Nestle and McDonald's are the top polluters. Among Indian corporates, we have Amul, Britannia, ITC, and Parle making it to the list.  

GAIA, with the help of core partners around the globe, did extensive research on the state of plastic recycling worldwide, and the immediate and potential long-term effects of China’s ban. The research indicates that the only real way to solve the world’s plastic pollution crisis is to simply make less plastic.

The way water is viewed has transformed from a natural resource that was collectively managed to an economic commodity that is privately owned. The state has also tended to focus on short-term supply side problems rather than long-term integrated management. This report presents some of the processes by which this shift in governance has taken place, including the results of public hearings conducted by a Peoples Water Commission.

This is a short report documenting the Zero Waste Cities Collaborative Project team's visit to Thanal. As members of this team at CAG, we were keen on understanding how this organization had been instrumental in helping Trivandrum set up an effective zero waste management system in place. The following are a series of short notes written by the team capturing the essential points of the different sites and stakeholders we visited during our field visits.

A documentation of urban flood management and disaster preparedness for lessons for urban governance

Compendium of perspectives of the floods in Chennai in December 2015

A GIS analysis of the floods in Chennai in December 2015.

CAG's response to the Justice Rajeswaran Committee Report whose objective was to give an opinion on building violations and guidelines for the regularisation that was proposed by the Tamil Nadu government.

CAG's response to the Justice Rajeswaran Committee Report whose objective was to give an opinion on building violations and guidelines for the regularisation that was proposed by the Tamil Nadu government.