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Governance
COVID-19 and social protection: Impact in the agriculture sector
Posted on 01 Apr, 2021 01:10 PMCOVID-19 induced significant economic and social disruptions in India. Rural households, including smallholders, were affected by loss in migrant income, livelihood and farm and non-farm income.
![Access to credit increased farmers' expenditures on farm-related activities. (Image: Pixy.org)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/farm-woman-on-the-field-in-india.jpg?itok=-m9p4q_h)
Over two crore children in India experiencing extremely high water vulnerability: UNICEF
Posted on 01 Apr, 2021 11:00 AMUNICEF’s analysis reveals over two crore children in India facing extremely high water vulnerability
![Girl fetching water from handpump (Source: Flickr photos via IWP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/3895622025_57207bc726_c.jpg?itok=9KAqqm8K)
Water governance standard and certification system – An answer to the water problems of agrarian India
Posted on 22 Mar, 2021 08:28 AMWater, belongs to everyone, managed by no one
While watching a film on WOTR’s Water Stewardship efforts, “Paani Kaarbhari – Water Stewards”, that won the Ministry of Jal Shakti's ‘Water Heroes: Share Your Stories’ contest1, we came across the wise words of a village woman who says “Water does not belong to one person, it belongs to everyone”.
![Long queues waiting for tankers are common in different parts of Maharashtra during water scarcity (Image Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/WOTRab.jpg?itok=Kr6Mm58l)
Urban lake governance and sustainability
Posted on 21 Mar, 2021 10:38 AM"Lakes in Indian cities have seen a pitfall in terms of quality.
![Governing and sustaining an urban lake entails improvements in its social and ecological characteristics. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)Wiki](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/Sunrise_at_Hauz_khas_lake_Delhi.jpg?itok=dkHlvBVp)
Energising Bihar’s agriculture
Posted on 19 Mar, 2021 07:51 PMWith small and fragmented land holdings, owning a well and pump is not a viable option for all farmers.
![Yatin Kumar, one of the early solar irrigation entrepreneurs in Chakhaji (Image: IWMI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/kumar.jpg?itok=JECkp95w)
Decentralized water resources management
Posted on 18 Mar, 2021 10:30 AMDecentralization is the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the central government to the elected authorities at the subnational level. In India, as organs of the government closest to the people, the panchayati raj system has emerged as an effective good governance tool.
![A woman fetching water from the third tap in the house premises. (Image: Ajaya Kumar Behera)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/colony-pada4_0.jpg?itok=3p6opbe-)
Clean fuel choices of urban India’s poor
Posted on 17 Mar, 2021 03:40 PMWith increased urbanisation, India is experiencing acute air pollution in its urban centres.
![PMUY should expand its reach to urban slum households, given that there are still households without LPG connections. (Image: Adam Cohn, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/old-woman-adam-cohn.jpg?itok=aeGCetao)
Strengthening the frontline for water security
Posted on 12 Mar, 2021 05:00 PMIndia has over 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats, which manage the governance of over 6,64,000 villages spread across the country.
![Kalyani Dash works with 150 households in the village directly and trains them on chemical-free farming techniques, water secure crop production, efficient water use in agriculture for a sustainable farming future as well as kitchen and nutrition gardening. (Image: FES)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/fes1.jpg?itok=aUFowYsz)
Water: Governance challenges and suggested tools
Posted on 22 Feb, 2021 03:38 PMDahanu, an ecologically fragile area about 120 km from Mumbai, in Maharashtra’s Palghar district witnessed massive protests in 2019. Over 59 gram panchayats were opposing the land diversion to high-tech infrastructure projects.
![Dahanu, a green zone enjoyed special protection since 1991 (Image: nathview.blogspot.com)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/dahanu.jpg?itok=4li7I311)
Disaster strikes Uttarakhand, yet again
Posted on 17 Feb, 2021 11:28 AMUttarakhand glacier disaster: Death toll rises to 58 as rescue operation continues
![Flash Floods in Chamoli, Uttarakhand (Image Source: India.com)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Presentation1.jpg?itok=_lew5PVH)