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    The livelihoods of ‘adivasi’ women in south India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    In Kerela, India, the state leads some notable development initiatives. But the many dimensions of deprivation within indigenous communities are under-researched, particularly in relation to women. More responsive measures can only developed through a better understanding of poverty. This is particularly the case for the historically neglected ‘adivasi’ (meaning ‘original inhabitants’).
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    Changing organisations for watershed management in India: from policy to practice

    Eldis Document Store, 2002
    How does organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy take place?What factors facilitate or inhibit the policy implementation process?
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    Water democracy: reclaiming public water in Asia

    Focus on the Global South, 2007
    Water crisis is largely a problem of governance. While there is an obvious bias towards privatisation as a solution to the water sector problems, the last few years have also seen many social mobilisations, consolidation of forces, and hard-won battles for peoples and communities’ water struggles, particularly in defending water as a human right.
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    Peri-urban water conflicts: supporting dialogue and negotiation

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2007
    As cities expand, a key challenge is securing water supplies for urban populations and disposing of pollution while minimising impacts on peri-urban communities and the environment.  This book describes the conflicts, dialogues and negotiations underway in peri-urban areas of many cities in the South. 
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    Kerala Research Programme on Local Development

    The programme has followed a ‘bottom-up’ approach in which individuals are encouraged to submit project proposals that fall in the priority areas of research.  The essential flavour o
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    Dealing with drought: livelihood options for drought risk reduction

    Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2006
    Recent development in South Asia has led to a rapid increase in exploitation of rivers and groundwater, causing considerable stress on these water sources.
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    Adaptive policymaking for agriculture and water resources

    International Development Research Centre, 2005
    In 2005, IDRC provided CA $1,000,000 to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to support a four-year research collaboration with TERI of India. These institutes will study the adaptation of agricultural communities that have experienced environmental change in the last two decades.
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    Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

    Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006
    This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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    A decade of the Maharashtra groundwater legislation: analysis of the implementation process

    Law Environment and Development Journal, 2006
    This paper explores the implementation of the Maharashtra Groundwater Act in India and evaluates its effectiveness in protecting drinking water sources.Maharashtra is among the few states in India that has enacted and implemented legislation to regulate the use of groundwater.
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    Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.

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