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Covid-19: Implications for watershed management
Posted on 16 Apr, 2020 04:47 PMOver the last four decades, watershed management has emerged as one of the most decentralised, integrated, persisting, innovative and effective programs to enhance natural resources such as water, soil and the vegetative cover as well as to provide means of livelihood to marginalised sections in rural areas.
![COVID-19 has adversely affected this year's watershed management work (Image: ILO South Asia-Pacific; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/watershed1.jpg?itok=Lq6BFhAH)
Health Ministry advises states to ensure adequate water supply in rural areas
Posted on 16 Apr, 2020 11:37 AMCentre advises states to ensure adequate water supply in rural areas during lockdown
![Villagers collecting borewell water from a private farmland (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5702254451_53f0088bec_c.jpg?itok=s8z3Lq4l)
Lockdown to cause severe water stress in summers
Posted on 16 Apr, 2020 11:27 AMSummer of 2020 could suffer from severe water stress due to lockdown
![Women bringing water from distance sources in summers (Source: IWP Flickr photos))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32874642685_ffc62064ca_c.jpg?itok=XqDpTuRg)
Spreading awareness on COVID-19
Posted on 14 Apr, 2020 12:34 PMSharing the right information with rural communities is emerging as an important need in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The unavailability of content in local dialects and regional languages is posing a big challenge to NGOs that are working in rural areas to spread awareness.
![Spreading awareness on covid crucial to tackle the pandemic (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/corona_virus.jpg?itok=vppGu52F)
COVID-19: Preparedness and Responsiveness of PRIs in Dealing with Reverse Migration
Posted on 12 Apr, 2020 07:42 PMThis webinar will explore the following questions:
Out of the frying pan into the fire
Posted on 11 Apr, 2020 06:35 PMWhile the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide, India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India also is experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a huge number of farm migrants working in cities.
![Farm women, the worse sufferers of the Covid 19 pandemic (Image Source: Seema Kulkarni)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/seema_photo1.jpg?itok=rgPdesjz)
Combating Covid-19 collectively: DHAN’s way
Posted on 10 Apr, 2020 12:21 PMAs the Covid-19 pandemic reaches new corners of the country, the NGO community in India has been preparing itself to respond to the unexpected needs that the crisis is producing. DHAN Foundation, a professional development organisation working in several states of India with the communities has begun to develop a strategy.
![Creating awareness about the pandemic as well as about the measures essential to be safe (Image: DHAN Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/corona1.jpg?itok=CrCV9eE2)
Basics of COVID-19 by Sphere India COVID-19 Academy
Posted on 09 Apr, 2020 05:01 PMAbout the course:
The COVID-19 Academy is a joint initiative of NDMA, UNICEF, WHO and Sphere India. It is an online platform that aims to build capacities of volunteers and outreach workers across India on a range of orientation and technical sessions related to COVID-19 response.
Guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste are out
Posted on 08 Apr, 2020 01:10 PMCPCB releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste
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COVID-19 lockdown: Health of Ganga and Yamuna rivers improves
Posted on 08 Apr, 2020 01:05 PMLockdown impact: Health of water bodies improves
![Ganga river at Kachla, Uttar Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172025486_d2b794f518_c.jpg?itok=sb56VYbr)