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  Access to water: a woman’s right?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Having enough water for food production is a key issue in many countries. As water becomes scarce and food requirements increase, there will be a need to produce more food using less water, to protect the quality of water and the environment, particularly in Africa. To achieve this, it will be necessary to improve women’s access rights to water.
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  Formal and informal governance in rural India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  There are several reports of atrocities committed by village councils against low-caste people and women in India. These councils often deal out harsh punishments to villagers who disobey recognised social behaviour, especially those who defy caste boundaries. Punishments include forcing people out of villages and even death sentences.
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  Building high-performance knowledge institutions for water management

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institutions to stagnate, there is a risk of a loss of a vitally important tool for research and policy making.
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  Plumbing a new institutional economics: sustainable water supply systems for Tamilnadu, India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can costly infrastructure such as water supply systems be made more sustainable? In the past, technocrats have set the design criteria, but how important are political and institutional factors? What costs and charges should policymakers take into consideration? And who else holds a stake in water supply?
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  Politics and provision On-the-ground realities of water and sanitation development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within which problems are framed and solutions are sought. How do current policy debates deal with these factors?
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  Urban sanitation: are the poor being heard?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The international commitment to provide basic services for all has yet to be achieved for a high percentage of the urban poor. Residents of densely crowded settlements endure the indignity, shame and sickness that lack of sanitation produces. Improved sanitation will provide real benefits to the lives and livelihoods of the poor.
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  Removing ropes, attaching strings : institutional arrangements to provide water

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1993

  The case of Dodopani (India) illustrates that governments often attempt sweeping technically oriented changes to improve standards of living without paying adequate attention to the political and institutional context that defines rural power dynamics, interactions and realities.
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  Inspections and emissions in India : puzzling survey evidence on industrial water pollution

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  In a sample of industrial plants in India, direct community pressure on plants does not appear to play a major role in reducing emissions. Nor do formal inspections, possibly because of the low probability of enforcement and the low penalties for noncompliance.
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  Improving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water

  US Agency for International Development, 2000

  Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels.
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  Sustainable Livelihoods and Project Design in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Reviews the design of two new DFID projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India. The projects aim to contribute to the Government of India’s efforts to eliminate poverty through support to its watershed development programme. The design of the two projects ran parallel to the development of the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach and framework.

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