Archana Chandola is a researcher working on the themes of livelihoods, natural resources management and evaluation of various programmes in the rural development space. She is a graduate from Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and has more than six years of experience in the development sector working with National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and subsequently with Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Currently, her area of research is to understand Common Property Resources and linkages with livelihoods of rural population.