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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)
November 13, 2023
What factors hinder the uptake of climate-smart agricultural practices among women?
Policy and implementation gaps in reaching women farmers with climate-smart agriculture practices
There is a need to enhance extension services to women (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
October 17, 2022
Invisible informal groundwater markets
While informal groundwater markets cater significantly to the needs of smallholder farmers in India, they continue to be unacknowledged and understudied.
Groundwater, a finite resource (Image Source: TV Manoj via Wikimedia Commons)
Markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods in India: a policy brief by Winrock International India
The policy brief looks at the potential of using market-based approaches to provide watershed protection services in India, focussing on equity in benefit-sharing and improve livelihoods
Winrock International India
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Posted on 11 May, 2009 04:05 PM

The study is based on a scoping study on ‘Developing Markets for Watershed Protection Services and Improved Livelihoods in India,’ which Winrock International India (WII), New Delhi, undertook as part of a larger international study being carried out by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London. 

WOTR wins Kyoto world water grand prize 2009
At the 5th World Water Forum, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), was awarded the coveted Kyoto World Water Grand Prize at a glittering closing ceremony to mark the closure of the Forum on World Water Day (March 22) at Istanbul, Turkey.
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Posted on 29 Mar, 2009 04:12 PM

At the 5th World Water Forum,  Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), was awarded the coveted Kyoto World Water Grand Prize at a glittering closing ceremony to mark the closure of the Forum on World Water Day (March 22) at Istanbul, Turkey. The award was presented to Dr Marcella D'Souza, Executive Director of WOTR in recognition of the outstanding contribution made towards organising rural communities for watershed development and rain water harvesting in an inclusive, equitable, sustainable and gender sensitive manner.

Excerpt from CSE's latest film on the rich man's excreta and poor man's water
Excerpt from CSE's latest film on the rich man's excreta and poor man's water
CSE
Posted on 15 Dec, 2007 07:35 AM

To quote : "CSE's latest film shows the relationship between rich man's shit and

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