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The Access Initiative-TAI
The Access Initiative (TAI) is an international network of over 150 Civil 
Society Groups that began in 1999, committed to ensuring the people have a voice in the decisions that affect their environment and their communities. The network partners of TAI promote transparent, participatory, and accountable governance as an essential foundation for sustainable development.
To achieve this goal, partners form national coalitions, use a common method, called TAI Assessment, to assess government progress, raise public awareness, and set priorities for improvements in policy and practice.
The TAI Global Coalition
The TAI Global Coalition is led by a Core Team consists of the representatives from seven national TAI coalitions – Corporación PARTICIPA-Chile, Iniciativa de Acceso-Mexico, Thailand Environment Institute TEI-Thailand, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment LIFE-India, Environmental Management and Law Association EMLA-Hungary, Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE-Uganda and the World Resources Institute WRI-USA.
The TAI India Coalition
The new T
AI India coalition was formed on 5th April 2009, now comprised of over 30 Civil Society Groups and individuals across the country. It is an evolving coalition that aims to include diverse groups working on issues related to environment. Legal Initiative for Forest & Environment-LIFE and Environics Trust serve as TAI India Secretariat. LIFE also serves as a core team member for South Asia.
In 2008, TAI India did the TAI-Assessment for the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and formed ‘TAI Himalayan Coalition’. This resulted in a report called ‘Environmental Democracy in the Himalayas’. As a follow up, TAI India, is working with local partners to ensure access rights.
