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July 2, 2024
From scarcity to sharing: How farmers are managing groundwater in Rayalaseema
Community governance for groundwater management
Jasmine on the fields as part of the groundwater collectivisation agreement at Kummara Vandla Palli village, Sri Satya Sai District. (Images: WASSAN/Swaran)
June 30, 2024
How Burhanpur became India's first Har Ghar Jal District
SHGs empower women, ensure sustainability: A model for water tax collection in Burhanpur
Rural water security (Image: Shawn, Save the Children USA; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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 19, 2024
How do your everyday choices impact the world's resources?
The surprising connection between Wikipedia, beaches, and your water bottle.
A top down image of a lush green forest in a sacred grove in Meghalaya (Image created by: Sreechand Tavva)
April 18, 2024
Collaborative approaches to water governance in Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra basin
As the demand for water from the Hindu Kush Himalaya region is expected to rise due to population growth, the impacts of temperature increases, and development requirements, researchers emphasise the urgent need to enhance scientific collaboration and rejuvenate existing treaties and governance structures.
Rivers of destiny (Image: Vikramjit Kakati/Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
February 14, 2024
Sustainable water management to enhance rural livelihoods
The event underlined the need to create a skilled workforce with multi-skilling abilities, embodying the concept of a one-stop-shop and service, particularly relevant for the organised sector.
The release of the reports prepared under the Jal Kaushal Project, led by the JustJobs Network and funded by Arghyam (Image: Arghyam)
Open Space Fellowships 2011-2012: ‘Nurturing civil society leadership and action among young people’ - Pune
Posted on 10 May, 2011 10:56 AM

OS open SpaceOpen Space, the civil society and youth outreach programme of  the Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS), Pune, engages with citizens – especially young citizens - on contemporary social, economic and cultural issues through film screenings, performances, literary readings, music concerts, art, storytelling, capacity-building workshops, discussion and study forums, public lectures, youth festivals and campaigns. Open Space aims to be a vibrant place for youth to volunteer, learn, share ideas, and express themselves. Equally, Open Space supports CSOs and citizens to take their work/ideas/processes to a wide audience of concerned citizens, and also to build action networks.

NREGA and rural water management in India: Improving the welfare effects – An occasional paper by IRAP
This occasional paper looks at improving the welfare effects of National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (NREGA) and rural water management in India.
Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP)
M Dinesh Kumar
Nitin Bassi
Posted on 09 May, 2011 09:41 PM

NREGA is being eulogized by many in the academic, development and policy arena as a “silver bullet” for eradicating rural poverty and unemployment, by way of generating demand for productive labour force in villages and private incentives for management of common property resources.

Sunderbans - A climate adaptation report by World Wildlife Fund India
This climate adaptation report by World Wildlife Fund India captures its experience on climate change in the Sundarbans.
Anurag Danda
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Posted on 09 May, 2011 09:23 PM

Sunderbans Beginning in 2005, WWF-India has conducted dozens of personal interviews to record how climate change impacts people's lives here and now. These perceptions demanded that s
Gender-sensitive sustainable sanitation - Women s groups in Chhattisgarh take initiative to bring toilets into their households and sustainable sanitation into their communities - ADB case study
Women’s groups took the initiative of bringing toilets into their households and sustainable sanitation in their communities.
Cezar Tigno
Melissa Howell-Alipalo
Posted on 09 May, 2011 03:06 PM

 

Gender-sensitive sustainable sanitation - Women’s groups in Chhattisgarh take initiative to bring toilets into their households and sustainable sanitation into their communities - ADB case study

Sanitation in Women’s Hands

Women in the villages of Chhattisgarh, India have banded together to bring some decent sanitation facilities in their homes—something which has been missing in their lives for a very long time.

Polavaram fraud - The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forest land - Article from Down To Earth
The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland.
Richard Mahapatra
Posted on 06 May, 2011 08:33 PM

 Most of the people threatened to be displaced cannot be relocated until their rights over forestland are recognized under the Forest Rights Act. How did the Andhra Pradesh government meet this immense challenge? It quietly told the Union environment and forests ministry that all claims have been settled.

The ministry gave forest clearance to the project last year. Now over 50 villages have written to the ministry, saying their forest rights have not been settled. Richard Mahapatra visited the villages and found the state had indeed lied.

Following similar complaints, the ministry had scrapped Vedanta’s proposal to mine Niyamgiri hills and withheld forest clearance to the POSCO steel plant in Odisha. Will it apply the same yardstick to Polavaram?

Residents of Teladibbalu did not know they had forest rights. The village is in the dam’s submergence zone and accessible only by boat (Photo: G Srinivas).Residents of Teladibbalu did not know they had forest rights. The village is in the dam’s submergence zone and accessible only by boat. (Photo: G Srinivas).

Private company seeks to invest in Indian companies operating in the water segment - Details required
Posted on 03 May, 2011 11:38 AM

Hi everybody,

I represent a private equity fund that seeks to invest in Indian Infrastructure. Within this we are greatly interested in investing in Indian Companies operating in the water segment. These companies should primarily be in

  • Water Distribution/Irrigation Business (BOT / BOOT formats)
  • Manufacture of Water Treatment Plants/Filtration/Metering Equipments and other equipments in water distribution/irrigation segments
A decade of the Total Sanitation Campaign - Rapid assessment of processes and outcomes - A report by the Water and Sanitation Program (2011)
Districts have been able to implement the sanitation programme successfully because they have religiously followed the protocols laid down in the TSC guidelines.
Water and Sanitation Program
Posted on 30 Apr, 2011 05:23 PM

The Water and Sanitation Program has analysed secondary data on the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) available on government websites and conducted primary analysis in 22 sample districts spread across 21 states.

 With the use of secondary and primary data the report has not only been able to give a macro view of the TSC but also has been able to go into the nitty-gritty of the campaign. There are case studies of districts and villages that have achieved open defecation free status.

India's forests and REDD+ - A factsheet prepared by Ministry of Environment and Forests
The document explains another effort at climate change mitigation which is the concept of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) .
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)
Posted on 28 Apr, 2011 04:29 PM

The benefits of working with REDD and the need and benefits of getting more ambitious by accepting REDD+, which is about finding financial value for carbon stored in standing forests which therefore incentivises the positive elements of conservation is also elaborated here.

AFPRO propagates Geospatial Technology (GT) solutions in Natural Resource Management (NRM)
Action for Food Production (AFPRO) is a national level NGO providing Socio-technical services for rural development
Action for Food Production (AFPRO
Posted on 28 Apr, 2011 11:40 AM

. It has been recognized as an ‘Organization of National Importance’ by the Government of India vides notification no.124/2004 F. No. 200/59/2003 – ITAI dated 26 March, 2004.

AFPRO propagates Geospatial Technology (GT) solutions for planning and implementing environmentally sound interventions related to development of land and water resources, food security and rural livelihoods. The experiences of AFPRO range from designing spatial database(s), adoption of GT in understanding changes in existing natural resources, impact assessment and role of community in better management of natural resources. Based on its varied experience in Natural Resource Management (NRM), watershed management, water & sanitation, protected area management and rural development has been identified as organisational thrust areas.

A structure for environment governance: A perspective on proposed National Environmental Protection Agency – A commentary in Economic and Political Weekly
The objective of this note is to share the salient aspects of the discussion more widely with a view to furthering debate on environmental governance in the country.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment
Centre for Policy Research
Navroz K Dubash
Prayas Energy Group
Shantanu Dixit
Sharachchandra Lele
Posted on 27 Apr, 2011 07:46 PM

This report on a round table held in November 2009 by a cross section of activists, policy analysts and academics deals with a move by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to restructure the environmental governance structure of the country through the proposed National Environmental Protection Agency.
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