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The program worked to increase the number of women occupying leadership roles in the water sector... more The program worked to increase the number of women occupying leadership roles in the water sector, and to foster an interdisciplinary and gendered approach linking climate change and water insecurity. It provided fellowships to thirty-six women enrolled in Masters-level Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) programs in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and gave them opportunities to access decision-making environments. The project brought focused attention to aspects of gender in water and climate change research. More sustained mentorship is needed in order to break systemic barriers towards gender inclusivity
wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water, 2021
The South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (Saci-WATERs) a water pol... more The South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (Saci-WATERs) a water policy research institute based in Hyderabad, India, launched the South Asian Water (SAWA) Leadership Programme on climate change in 2017. The SaciWATERs is hosting the programme in collaboration with four partner engineering institutes from four South Asian countries, and with funding support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. This academic-oriented programme is aimed at facilitating the creation of a group of interdisciplinary women leaders in South Asia that share a common understanding of the crosscutting scientific and societal issues of water resource management. The four-year (2017-2021) SAWA leadership programme has granted fellowships to 36 fellows that were selected from the partner institutes namely
Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development
The Moyna basin of West Bengal is experiencing a rapid transformation in land use and land cover ... more The Moyna basin of West Bengal is experiencing a rapid transformation in land use and land cover (LULC) as waterbodies are rapidly increasing at the expense of low-lying agricultural lands. The transformation in the LULC pattern in Moyna basin has been studied earlier based on the focus of climate change, biodiversity and other environmental issues. However, very little is known about the implications of this transformation on gender roles, responsibilities and livelihoods. This study examines the interconnectedness between LULC transformation and its differential impact on the livelihoods and workload of men and women using an intersectional perspective in three villages across Moyna block. The data were collected using a mixed-method approach and comprised of three major sources of information—observations, photographs and interviews. Results show that the changes in LULC have occurred partly as an impact of climate change and partly due to the inclination towards aquaculture due ...
Journal of Rural Development
Since Independence the State-led development strategies like hydroelectric projects, dam construc... more Since Independence the State-led development strategies like hydroelectric projects, dam constructions, mining projects have displaced and dispossessed a large number of tribals and economically marginalised rural population through the dreadful Land Acquisition Act. This gained a further momentum in the neo-liberal period. The anecdotes of tribal victimisation, continuous erosion of their rights and how they are coping in the market economy are repeatedly studied. The Raniganj coal mining region of West Bengal where few large-scale open cast mines are operational is not an exception in this regard and needs to be contextualised in a deeper socioeconomic -politico context. However, this paper seeks to understand how far the deprivation of the tribals belonging to the project affected villages is integral to land acquisition.
The program worked to increase the number of women occupying leadership roles in the water sector... more The program worked to increase the number of women occupying leadership roles in the water sector, and to foster an interdisciplinary and gendered approach linking climate change and water insecurity. It provided fellowships to thirty-six women enrolled in Masters-level Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) programs in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and gave them opportunities to access decision-making environments. The project brought focused attention to aspects of gender in water and climate change research. More sustained mentorship is needed in order to break systemic barriers towards gender inclusivity
wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water, 2021
The South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (Saci-WATERs) a water pol... more The South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (Saci-WATERs) a water policy research institute based in Hyderabad, India, launched the South Asian Water (SAWA) Leadership Programme on climate change in 2017. The SaciWATERs is hosting the programme in collaboration with four partner engineering institutes from four South Asian countries, and with funding support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. This academic-oriented programme is aimed at facilitating the creation of a group of interdisciplinary women leaders in South Asia that share a common understanding of the crosscutting scientific and societal issues of water resource management. The four-year (2017-2021) SAWA leadership programme has granted fellowships to 36 fellows that were selected from the partner institutes namely
Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development
The Moyna basin of West Bengal is experiencing a rapid transformation in land use and land cover ... more The Moyna basin of West Bengal is experiencing a rapid transformation in land use and land cover (LULC) as waterbodies are rapidly increasing at the expense of low-lying agricultural lands. The transformation in the LULC pattern in Moyna basin has been studied earlier based on the focus of climate change, biodiversity and other environmental issues. However, very little is known about the implications of this transformation on gender roles, responsibilities and livelihoods. This study examines the interconnectedness between LULC transformation and its differential impact on the livelihoods and workload of men and women using an intersectional perspective in three villages across Moyna block. The data were collected using a mixed-method approach and comprised of three major sources of information—observations, photographs and interviews. Results show that the changes in LULC have occurred partly as an impact of climate change and partly due to the inclination towards aquaculture due ...
Journal of Rural Development
Since Independence the State-led development strategies like hydroelectric projects, dam construc... more Since Independence the State-led development strategies like hydroelectric projects, dam constructions, mining projects have displaced and dispossessed a large number of tribals and economically marginalised rural population through the dreadful Land Acquisition Act. This gained a further momentum in the neo-liberal period. The anecdotes of tribal victimisation, continuous erosion of their rights and how they are coping in the market economy are repeatedly studied. The Raniganj coal mining region of West Bengal where few large-scale open cast mines are operational is not an exception in this regard and needs to be contextualised in a deeper socioeconomic -politico context. However, this paper seeks to understand how far the deprivation of the tribals belonging to the project affected villages is integral to land acquisition.