Amita Bhaduri

Illegal river bed mining continues unabated in north India

Need effective sand mining governance and law enforcement to address the plundering of the rich river ecosystem. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

Administrative reforms towards Atmanirbhar Bharat

Accountable and efficient governance should reach the last mile. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

Bracing for data reporting challenges

Why is your field team slack about data reporting? How can they be involved in the reporting processes? Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

The data capture happens as a part of the users’ workflow instead of being batched together as a separate activity, to be done later (Image: Geralt, Pixabay license)

Bespoke software vs. platform: Choosing between the two

The essential tradeoff between these two options is of cost, time, risk, and requirement match. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

The term platform has a specific meaning which differentiates it from technology/software applications. (Image: Needpix)

Open source products protect against technology obsolescence

Open-source products offer a technology evolution path and help avoid risks in technology projects. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

Open source products track the sector and the technology evolution and evolve themselves continuously. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Springs that sustain millions

Springs, the greenest source of water, and the strongest bulwark against climate change in the mountains are in dire need of protection. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

Springshed management has brought the much-required difference in people's lives, as the discharge of the springs increased (Image: Kedarnathsmritivan; Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0))

A sanitation veteran leads from the front

Gyanchand Mishra has leveraged help from the urban local body and the Project Nirmal team to improve the city's sanitation chain. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

As a result of Gyanchand Mishra's efforts, Ward 3 of Dhenkanal became ODF in a matter of a month

Breaking down data silos in the water sector

The National Hydrology Project has created a national platform for water data and is working to enhance the technical capacities of agencies dealing with water resources management. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

Breakthrough cloud computing facilities and remote sensing applications have helped showthe filling pattern of a water body (tank or reservoir) through freely available satellite imagery at an interval of five days. (Image: Maithan dam, Wikimedia Commons)

What India needs for effective waste management in times of the pandemic

The pandemic has exposed the flaws in our waste management system. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 7 months ago

Creating a repository for India’s water resources data

WRIS provides a comprehensive, authoritative and consistent data on India’s water resources in a standardised national GIS framework. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

Remoteness of the observation sites poses a challenge in setting up the data collection instrument (Image: Pxfuel)

Generating demand for sanitation infrastructure

How to steer conversations and processes that help boost the motivation of community leaders to encourage better sanitation behaviour? Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

Project Nirmal uses appropriate communication inputs that help generate awareness about the impact of poor containment, collection, transportation and treatment systems on the environment among all stakeholders. (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)

Architecture of community program organisations and their data systems

A simple explanation is all you need to get your head around issues related to software technology and its use in community programs. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

Image courtesy: Pete Linforth from Pixabay

Data, data everywhere, but where?

Involving the community in a data framework with the right incentives will have the second-order benefit of the community becoming decision makers with respect to water use. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

The seamless flow of data from one program to another can be enabled if a few principles are kept in mind (Image: José Manuel Suárez, Wikimedia Commons)

Data-driven ‘water and agriculture’ planning: The big picture

If data was better organized and available for download in more ‘user-friendly’ formats, its utilization would improve manifold. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

The quality of our public data is highly variable, yet if analyses and interpretation are done keeping in mind some of the limitations, the datasets can be a precious resource at the meso and macro level. (Image: Pixabay)

Rapid hygiene study: Hand hygiene for COVID-19 and beyond in India

A study by WaterAid India calls for building the capacity of community networks to promote and support hygiene behaviours. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

Effect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing (Image: Climate Centre)

Groundwater recharge needs grassroots solutions: A study of two techniques in Kerala

Although groundwater is emerging as a critical issue and has managed to encourage new government schemes, a generic solution of rainwater recharge cannot be applied across different regions. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

Rainwater is captured from the rooftop of the community hall and diverted to the sump before it is pumped into the open well. (Image by Authors)

A rainbow recovery post-COVID

The movement towards radical ecological democracy needs to combine the practical and policy-level grassroots work with broader mobilization. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

The women of Deccan Development Society sanghams move towards more localized natural resource management (Image: Deccan Development Society, Facebook Page)

How forest-dwelling communities are braving the pandemic

Local communities and gram sabhas better understand the local complexities than the local administrations while dealing with a crisis situation. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 8 months ago

The non timber forest products collection season, which is mainly in the months of April to June coincided exactly with the lockdown (Image: CIFOR, Flickr Commons)

Poor implementation of forest rights act hurts tribals

Need to recognise the rights of forest-dwelling and tribal communities over their traditional lands. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 9 months ago

Indigenous groups that lived and helped maintain the forests for centuries have been undermined (Image: Baiga women, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0)

Governance lessons that could keep us prepared for pandemics

Leo Saldanha of Environment Support Group speaks on rethinking aspects of our governance system in post-pandemic times. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 9 months ago

Decentralised governance systems that allow to adapt and learn are best placed to deal with disasters (Image: Kantsmith, Pixabay)