As a Resource Centre, Laya has been generating relevant information through documentation at the field level by undertaking issue based surveys, various studies on key areas of concern, and by publishing periodicals. Through the years we have been able to develop a wealth of information that at one level is useful in planning and designing appropriate strategies and on the other enables us to critically understand policies to suggest informed changes in major policies relating to the adivasi context.Each team in Laya, be it in the field of human rights, health care, natural resource management, access to markets and credit or youth empowerment, is located in a different place and have their own ways of recording and documenting information that brings value to its work. At the Resource Centre in Visakhapatnam a copy of this information is kept for reference. This allows the members of the team involved in these particular areas to share details of their work. It also helps us converge on major policy issues related to adivasis such as the forest bill, adivasi policy and the displacement

PERIODICALS

Two periodicals have been in circulation for more than a decade.

Mannemlo is in Telugu; four issues are produced in a year. This periodical has been in circulation since 1994. Manyamlo caters basically to adivasi youth to inform them about pertinent issues that concern the adivasi context. It has over the years built a considerable readership base among adivasi youth, NGOs and other civil society representatives. Our effort is to reach out to CBOs and other NGOs working with the adivasi communities in this region.

Eco-ethic is an English periodical that caters mainly to issues related to Climate Change. The idea behind eco-ethic is to create awareness among development practitioners about the effects of Climate Change as well as update the readers on some of the basic debates happening on this issue nationally and internationally. It has an all India outreach.