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May 22, 2024
Mainstreaming gender in participatory irrigation management: Why does empowerment matter?
Bridging the gender divide in Participatory Irrigation Management
Woman member of water user association is giving fish feed to a community pond in West Midnapore in West Bengal (Image: Tanmoy Bhaduri/IWMI)
May 18, 2024
Empowering women through socio-technical innovations
A case study of women-led climate resilient farming by Swayam Shikshan Prayog
Building the resilience of women farmers (Image: ICRISAT, Flcikr Commons)
December 27, 2023
Assessment of India's preparedness: Implementing effective social protection
The ASPIRE tool analyses various social protection programs, offering insights into tailoring them for different climate risks
Women working on an NREGA site building a pond to assist in farming and water storage in Jhabua district (UN Women/Gaganjit Singh; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 8, 2023
GenAI could accelerate global warming and climate change
Climate change is the focus at COP28: Technology must be included in the dialogue
An artist's illustration of artificial intelligence (Image: Google Deepmind, Pexels)
November 22, 2023
Challenging gender and caste identities: The women wheat farmers of Madhya Pradesh
This study finds that gender plays a far more important role than caste in structuring “who decides" among the men and women wheat farmers in Madhya Pradesh. However, women have now begun to challenge gendered caste structures that restrict them to unpaid agricultural work.
Woman harvesting wheat, Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh, India.(Image Source: © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA)
November 17, 2023
Unmasking gender disparities in Indian sanitation
Women's struggle for sanitation equity in rural areas and urban slums India
A training exercise on water and sanitation, as part of an EU-funded project on integrated water resource management in Rajasthan. (Image: UN Women Asia and Pacific; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
The key to successfully managing groundwater in India
Dr.Himanshu Kulkarni who was Chairman Working Group on Sustainable Groundwater Management for the 12th Plan, suggests measures to mitigate the poor groundwater scenario in the country.
Makarand Purohit
Hamsa Iyer
Posted on 23 Mar, 2014 10:47 PM

Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni is the Executive Director of the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), a non-profit organisation in Pune. It is a premier education and research institution, which facilitates work on groundwater management through action research programmes and training.
A study group observing groundwater in a well
A multi-pronged approach to improve livelihoods in MP
Out-migration of residents and inefficient agricultural practices in Baldeogarh, MP have been partially resolved by an NGO's intervention, which focused on conserving water.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 17 Mar, 2014 03:46 PM

A little less than 40 km away from the district headquarters of Tikamgarh in northern Madhya Pradesh lies a watershed, which is an area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place (US Environmental Protection Agency).
Farmer looks at the water conservation efforts
Princely' private ponds
The 'Apna Talab Abhiyaan' programme promotes the building of private talabs on peoples' lands to help improve groundwater recharge in Bundelkhand.
Amita Bhaduri
Prabhat Jha
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 10:14 AM

Charkhari, a princely state of India in the colonial period was once a beautiful settlement founded by Saurabh Singh Bundela, a Rajput King. Acceded to India post-Independence, the town is now located in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The place was home to intricate water management systems in the past.
A talab in the fort city of Charkhari
If you don't clean our shit, then who will?
Manual scavenging continues to exist in India even 67 years after Independence. Is it due to the lack of laws, lack of alternatives or lack of will?
Prarthana Vishal
Posted on 16 Feb, 2014 10:53 PM

"Swaraj is a meaningless term, if we desire to keep a fifth of India under perpetual subjection, and deliberately deny to them the fruits of national culture". - Mahatma Gandhi
A manual scavenger at work (Source:Flickr Commons)
Invitation to the training on 'Inclusive, Gender and Justice Approaches to Water-Based Livelihoods', Utthan, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
The training will impart an analytical framework and practical strategies for integrating broad-based gender, religious, and socio-economic equity through decentralized and democratic mechanisms.
Posted on 13 Feb, 2014 02:26 PM

Get more information about the training on Inclusive, Gender and Justice Approaches to Water-Based Livelihoods and apply.
The primary caretakers of water?
Women have always had an important role in water management. A study in South Sikkim aims to find out if topography, in addition to gender, influences access to water.
Jwala Thapa
Posted on 09 Feb, 2014 07:48 PM

Gender influences access to water to a high degree throughout the world, a fact recognised in the Dublin Principles but how does topography influence this access? This study detailed in this post aims to find the answer to this question.
The women of Sikkim manage their water resources
Engineering witchcraft in Bihar
The Bhutahi Balan, a tributary of the Kosi may be a small river but it has caused immense devastation. Dinesh Mishra says that embankments aren't the answer to this problem.
Dinesh Mishra
Posted on 09 Feb, 2014 07:46 PM

It's been years since Bhutahi Balan, a small tributary of the Kosi river in Madhubani, North Bihar, has been causing devastation on both its banks. Dinesh Mishra in his book 'Story of a ghost river and engineering witchcraft' objectively analyses the failure of embankments, which are raised banks to contain the river's flooding.

Devastation due to floods
Separated by a spring
Two villages used the same spring as their source of water for generations but over time, it divided rather than unite them. What caused it and was it ever resolved?
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 06 Jan, 2014 10:02 AM

Numerous small villages dot the Himalayas. These villages obtain water from springs that are in their turn supplied by small aquifers. Due to the complex folded nature of the rocks that make up the mountains, the area from which these aquifers receive their water may be at some distance away from the actual spring.
Bedu Naula, in Uttarakhand
Environment Minister Moily takes controversial decisions
Policy Matters this week: Moily takes controversial decisions on the Western Ghats, UP declares eco-sensitive zone around sanctuaries and the UN appreciates Odisha's disaster management efforts.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 29 Dec, 2013 06:54 PM

New Environment Minister brings in new polices
Environment Minister Moily (Source: Livenewz)
Bihar villagers against asbestos plant
News this week: Bihar villagers oppose asbestos plant, J&K government restricts civilian movement near Kishanganga dam site and dams for Mumbai result in tribal displacement.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 08:40 PM

10,000 Bihar villagers file petition against asbestos plant
Asbestos inflammation (Source: Adam Cohn, Flickr)
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