The collective and communal nature of common pool resources mark them out as distinct from resources that may be owned privately or controlled by governments. Commons are spaces where intervention necessarily involves engaging with collective expressions of power within communities enabling marginalized and vulnerable groups to negotiate with authority and power in local contexts. At the present time, apart from leveraging the existing channels and institutions, these negotiations can also take the form of struggles, movements, and everyday acts of resistance. Alongside community-driven initiatives involving direct stakeholders, such efforts can also involve a wider set of actors such as civil society organizations, activists, citizen groups.