About me
My Research Project investigates when and how civil society organisations and grassroots initiatives can make circular and green transitions more environmentally effective and socially just. It focuses on a recurring implementation gap: people may receive training or participate in environmental projects without gaining sustained access to materials, equipment, finance, standards, institutions, markets or decision-making power. The result can be a transition that is technically green but uneven in who participates, whose knowledge is recognised and who secures durable benefits.
The project builds on my preliminary applied research with local CSOs, NGO staff and participating youth and women in our local communities, including work connected to ready-made garments and agricultural waste management. Using desk and field research and focus-group discussions, the study explored green skills, circular practices and near-term socioeconomic co-benefits. It reported indicative relationships between stronger co-benefit orientation, job opportunities and organisational economic gains. Because the underlying materials do not yet provide a complete sampling frame, comparison design or causal analysis, these findings will be treated as preliminary propositions to be independently tested rather than established effects.
The Project will refine this foundation through the interdisciplinary lenses of just transition, environmental justice and just circularity. It will examine not only whether benefits arise, but how they are distributed; who participates in environmental decisions; which communities and forms of work are recognised; and what institutional or policy arrangements are required to address existing inequalities.
Core research question
How and under what justice, governance, institutional and market conditions do civil society-led green-skills and circular-livelihood interventions enable environmentally sustainable and socially just livelihood transitions for women and young people?