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July 28, 2024
Tap into the numbers: Budget insights on WASH
The budget allocation for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation reflects a steady upward trajectory, underscoring the importance of scaling financial commitments to meet the growing demands of the WASH sector.
Child drinking water from handpump in Guna, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Anil Gulati, India Water Portal Flickr)
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)
January 11, 2024
Mapping the water workforce
These preliminary findings provide a roadmap for detailed research, offering insights into the jobs, tasks, and skills required to manage rural water resources in India.
Examining jobs, skills, and tasks in rural water sector (Image: JustJobs Network)
January 7, 2024
Evolution of state's role in rural drinking water governance in India
Need to nudge state governments to evolve a detailed roadmap (planning, implementation and operations related strategies)—immediate, medium and long-term—for ensuring drinking water security.
Demand-responsive approach became the mainstay of the project with the initiation of sectoral reforms (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
October 20, 2023
Building community expertise in planning, designing, and overseeing WASH systems
A holistic approach to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiatives
Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)
February 15, 2023
Sustaining ward level water supply schemes in Bihar
Design principles for operation and maintenance at scale
The programme intends to improve safe drinking water coverage in rural Bihar (Image: AKRSP(I))
National conference on women-led water management: Strategies towards water sustainability in rural India, IRRAD and UNICEF, November 5-6, 2012, Gurgaon, Haryana, call for papers- Submit by August 31, 2012
Posted on 13 Aug, 2012 01:38 PM

IRRADUNICEF

Organisers: Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD) and UNICEF

Venue: S.M. Sehgal Foundation Auditorium,
                   Sector 44,
                   Gurgaon,  Haryana

IRRAD is an initiative of the S M Sehgal Foundation, registered as a Trust since 1999 to further the wellbeing of rural communities in India. IRRAD directly engages with communities, implements Integrated Sustainable Village Development in select village clusters and promotes citizen participation in rural governance combined with sustainable development solutions.

Minutes of the first meeting of sectoral innovation council, held on 5th July 2012 at Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi- A document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
This document includes the minutes of the first meeting of sectoral innovation council. It sheds light on the need for innovation in rural water sector
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 09 Aug, 2012 07:48 PM

This document by Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation is on the minutes of the first meeting of sectoral innovation council. It sheds light on the need for innovation in rural water sector.
Minutes of the conference of state ministers and state secretaries in charge of rural drinking water and sanitation, 24th May – 25th May, 2012 Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi- A document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
THis document includes the minutes of the meeting of the conference of state ministers and state secretaries in charge of rural drinking water and sanitation
Department of Drinking Water Supply (DDWS)
Posted on 05 Aug, 2012 08:51 AM

This document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, is on the minutes of the meeting of the conference of state ministers and state secretaries in charge of rural drinking water and sanitation.
What does it take to scale up rural sanitation ? - A working paper by Water and Sanitation Program
This working paper illustrates examples from the field and focuses on some of the key lessons learnt, while implementing the rural sanitation programs
Eduardo Perez with Jason Cardosi
Yolande Coombes
Jacqueline Devine
Amy Grossman
Craig Kullmann
C Ajith Kumar
Nilanjana Mukherjee
Manu Prakash
Amin Robiarto
Deviariandy Setiawan
Upneet Singh
Djoko Wartono
Posted on 04 Aug, 2012 10:22 AM

The deplorable condition of sanitation facilities in developing countries, has been gaining enormous attention in the recent times. It is no longer a “forgotten issue”.Though measure and several initiatives have been taken by national governments and international agencies to address this problem, yet a lot has to be done and learned about dealing with it.
"Aajao Pukur Aamader" by Nirupama Adhikari - Bengali translation of Anupam Mishra’s book “Aaj Bhi Khare Hain Talaab”
This book titled “Aajao Pukur Aamader” is the Bengali translation of Anupam Mishra’s book in Hindi “Aaj Bhi Khare Hain Talaab” which has been a runaway success for several years.
Anupam Mishra
Nirupama Adhikari
Posted on 21 Jul, 2012 09:49 PM

cover pageAnupam Mishra is an environmental activist and currently works with the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. The inspiring contribution dealing with the indigenous water systems of central India has been translated by Nirupama Adhikari into Bengali.
Report of the national seminar on decentralized governance in water and sanitation in rural India organised by NIAR: Status and means of strengthening decentralized governance systems in India
The National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR) organised a two-day conference on 'Decentralized governance in water and sanitation in rural India' at LBSNAA, Mussoorie, in June 2012.
Aidan A Cronin
AL Radhakrishnan
BP Kothyari
B S BIsht
Hemant Joshi
Hemant Khosla
Jaswinder Karu
Joysula Lakshmi
Kapil Lall
Namit Kumar
PP Dhyani
RD Singh
Renu Gera
Shantha Sheela Nair
Suneet Sethi
VC Goyal
VK Sinha
Posted on 11 Jul, 2012 06:53 PM

This seminar aimed to provide a platform for the effective sharing of experiences of PRI-implemented WATSAN service delivery programmes  and so understand the various factors affecting the effective decentralisation of water and sanitation. 
National Institute of Rural Development invites applications its 5th fully residential "One-year ‘Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development Management especially for North-Eastern candidates, at Guwahati - Apply by July 11, 2012
Posted on 25 Jun, 2012 10:51 AM

NIRD

The National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad – premier National Center of Excellence in rural development announces its Fifth fully residential "One-year ‘Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development Management (PGDRDM)" especially for the North-Eastern candidates with an aim to create a committed and competent cadre of Rural Development professionals from North-Eastern states.

Mihir Shah Committee proposes new guidelines on MGNREGA: Some highlights
This article by Amita Bhaduri highlights the new set of guidelines under the MGNREGA scheme that has been unveiled by the Mihir Shah Committee recently
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 21 Jun, 2012 04:32 PM

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
"Rural voices: Unheard to empowered" Report of a conference held on 3rd May 2012 by IRRAD, Sesame Workshop India Trust and UNESCO at Gurgaon
This article by Amita Bhaduri describes the proceedings of a conference titled “Rural voices: Unheard to empowered”’ on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 18 Jun, 2012 12:50 PM

The Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD), Sesame Workshop India Trust and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) jointly organized a conference titled “Rural voices: Unheard to empowered”’ on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day 2012 on 3rd May, 2012 in

Water commercialization, a threat to human rights - A Gandhian prospect
This article argues that commercialisation of water is a threat to the basic human rights and must be solved by encouraging local level water management practices
Satyendra Tripathi
Posted on 17 May, 2012 11:00 AM

Providing usable water is one of the toughest challenges that most of the countries of the world are facing today. And in an era of liberalization and domination of capital centric policies commercialization of water is not a shocking step.
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