Our Vision

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Redefine how we live with all beings, across wild, rural, and urban landscapes. Embracing coexistence and minimizing conflict, as part of a more just and inclusive vision for conservation.

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Fellowship Programme

Our flagship programme is the Coexistence Fellowship Programme which has been set up with a vision to enable and empower grassroots-level conservation practitioners and researchers to steer projects on coexistence.

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The Fellowship Programme, initiated once every two years, enables researchers and conservationists to study, understand, implement, and facilitate the coexistence paradigm in conservation. The philosophy of building local partnerships and capacity building is embedded in the structure of the programme, wherein a fellowship is awarded to a team of two Fellows for two years. At least one of the two Fellows needs to be from a community at the proposed project site, and candidates must apply as a team.​ The Fellowship includes a training component, where the Fellows are exposed to different debates in coexistence and conservation, and provided with the skills necessary for trans-disciplinary action research. Following the training period, the Fellows are assigned mentors, who guide them throughout their Fellowship.

Champions Programme

The Coexistence Champions is a recently launched programme that collaborates with place-based initiatives that grow, inspire, and amplify voices of lived coexistence. We support practitioners to lead a radical rethink of conservation - amplifying what works while experimenting with new solutions.

• We work with mid-career changemakers leading diverse approaches to coexistence with local communities

• The programme supports these changemakers for 2 years

• Our focus is on grounded autonomy, building cooperation and networks for greater resilience and collective cross learning

• We build capacity and networks to tell coexistence stories to a wider audience

  
  

To learn more about our programme and meet our Champions - 

Champions | Coexconsortium

Programme Manager, Champions Programme: Stella James

Programme Administrator, Champions Programme: Shripad Goenka

Communication Leads: Seema Lokhandwala I Sagarika Phalke