Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to:

ActionAid for financially facilitating the study; and John Samuel and Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, who kept regular track of the progress of the study, which was very helpful from the point of view of time management for the completion of the book.

Colleagues from ActionAid for their inspiration and support: Anil Pant, Asgar Ali Sabri, Babu Mathew, Bijay Kumar, Bimal Phnuyal, Fikre Zewdie, G. B. Adhikari, Jagat Patnaik, Shafqat Munir, Shibesh Regmi, Shoaib Siddiqui, Rangsima Deesawade, Ramesh Singh and Zakia Soman.

South Asia RSC of INSA for reviewing and approving the outlines of study.

INSA National Steering Committee, Pakistan (NSC, P) for reviewing the progress of the study from time to time and offering suggestions; and the Regional Task Force on Natural Resource Management for reviewing the chapters as they were prepared, and for providing useful inputs.

Participants of INSA second Policy Forum, held in Kandy, Sri Lanka in July 2008, for their useful comments on the summary of the study presented.

All the others at SDPI and elsewhere, who have one way or another helped towards the successful completion of the study.