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August 11, 2024
SeasonWatch: Citizens, trees, and climate change
Even in the face of daunting challenges like climate change, collective action and community engagement can lead to meaningful change
SeasonWatch tree walk at Rupa Rahul Bajaj Centre for Environment and Art (Image: SeasonWatch)
October 8, 2023
India's rivers: From conservation movements to legal personhood
While the current push for legal personhood for rivers is facing obstacles and is stalled, it holds potential as a viable long-term strategy for the preservation of India's rivers
River quality deteriorates as demand for hydropower to support economic growth continues to expand. (Image: Yogendra Singh Negi, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
October 6, 2022
Visualizing the Vrishabhavathi river to keep it alive
In an effort to inform the general public, especially citizen activists, policymakers, researchers, and students, about the current status of the Vrishabhavathi river, Paani.Earth has created the necessary maps, data, analysis, and information to drive conservation awareness and action around the river.
Vrishabhavathi river (Image Source: Paani.Earth)
October 1, 2021
Community videos: By the community, for the community
Community videos as a tool to influence behaviour change and adoption in rural communities
Community videos are produced by farmers themselves and feature local participants and agents from the rural communities themselves (Image: Digital Green)
September 17, 2021
Villagers’ shramdaan revives canal, enhances area under cultivation
Benefits of well-managed commons on livelihoods
Collective efforts revived the canal structure of Bichhiya dam bringing water to the village (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)
September 4, 2021
How Paani Foundation harnesses the power of communication for social transformation
Committed to use the power of all forms of communication to bring about behavioral change and transformation at scale
Villagers participating in shramdaan for making watershed structures (Image: Paani Foundation)
Community monitoring in water and sanitation projects - A facilitators manual by PRIA
This manual published by Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) aims at creating a basic understanding of the concept, principles and steps of community monitoring.
Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
Posted on 02 Feb, 2012 11:59 AM

This manual is based on the work that PRIA was involved in that included facilitating the process of social development and monitoring, and for guiding the process of developing models for community monitoring linked to community action, for child survival and development in six project sites in India.

This manual is divided into three key sections:
Planning as commoning - Transformation of a Bangalore lake - Paper published in the EPW
This paper in EPW deals with the transformation of a lake in Bangalore.
Jayaraj Sundaresan
Posted on 02 Feb, 2012 11:30 AM

This paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly argues that the transformation of human settlements over time can affect the relationship between communities and commons when, for example, social geographies change from rural to urban, or from traditional systems of management to modern bureaucratic systems.
Contextualising urban water supply in a changing environment: India Urban Conference, November 17-20 2011
The India Urban Conference (IUC) was organised to encourage multi-level dialogue regarding India's urban transformation.
A P Tiwari
Himanshu Kulkarni
LS Ganpati
Malini Shankar
Manjunath Prasad
Meera Mehta
M Sekhar
Pavan Kumar
Sudhakar Rao
Vishwanath S
Posted on 30 Jan, 2012 09:21 AM

It aimed to set the challenges faced by urban planners in the current economic, socio-political, and ecological landscape. This would enable informed and negotiated choices on urban development. The stated objectives of the conference are as follows:
CMS invites applications for Senior Research Associates/ Research Associates, Delhi – Apply by January 21, 2012
Posted on 21 Jan, 2012 09:14 AM

Content courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia

 CMS

CMS is a not for profit multi- disciplinary, development research and facilitative think-tank. We endeavor to work towards equity, social development and transparency in governance through research, advocacy and capacity building.

Bangledesh's perspectives on Tipaimukh dam
This article by Md. Khalequzzaman deals with Bangladesh's position on the Tipaimukh dam.
Md. Khalequzzaman
Posted on 18 Jan, 2012 11:33 PM

The Indian government and two other Indian authorities have signed an agreement on October 22, 2011 regarding construction of the Tipaimukh Dam.
CORT invites applications for Training Officer, Vadodara, Gujrat – Apply by January 18, 2012
Posted on 17 Jan, 2012 04:05 PM

Content courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia

Centre for Operations Research and Training (CORT) aspires to play a catalyst role in the national development and evidence based policy decision making by undertaking policy relevant research.

ASA invites applications for Regional Coordinator, Patna, Bihar – Apply by January 20, 2012
Posted on 17 Jan, 2012 03:52 PM

Content courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia

ASA

Action for Social Advancement (ASA) is an NGO head quartered at Bhopal and working for the farm based livelihood improvement of rural poor in over 1000 villages in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar since 1996. It works in the field of Land and Water Resources Development, Agriculture Development, Agribusiness Promotion for small farmers, and Institutional credit for agriculture.

Community managed sanitation in Kerala - Tools to promote governance and improve health - A Report by the World Bank Institute
This report by the World Bank Institute describes the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project.
Balachandra Kurup
Posted on 16 Jan, 2012 01:14 PM

It also deals with the efforts made by the Government of India to revolutionise sanitation services in the state of Kerala, with the aim of improving public health. Earlier experience had shown that significant governance problems had hindered water and sanitation reforms in local and national programmes in the state.
Azim Premji Foundation invites applications for Graduate Fellowship Program 2012, India – Apply January 21, 2012
Posted on 16 Jan, 2012 11:11 AM

APF

Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization in India with an overarching goal to create and sustain initiatives to contribute to a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. The Foundation’s work is aimed at enriching and enhancing the capabilities of individuals, groups and institutions to achieve well-being and harmony in a socially and culturally diverse democratic polity.

Hydropower in the Northeast: Potential and harnessing analysis - A critique
This paper was commissioned as an input to the study “Development and Growth in Northeast India: The Natural Resources, Water, and Environment Nexus” by the World Bank.
V V K Rao
Posted on 15 Jan, 2012 11:41 PM

The main objectives of the hydropower study are as follows: 

  • An analysis of the hydropower potential in the Northeast and key elements of the strategy that should be followed for optimal realization of this potential 
  • An overview of the hydropower development options in the Northeast with regard to the water resources in the different river basins, including consideration of flood control and irrigationmap of the north-eastern states

Map of the north-east states

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