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| Rapid Water Balance Assessment of Karjat and Jamkhed Talukas in Ahmednagar District for Water Security
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This report is on the study conducted in the highly drought prone blocks of Karjat and Jamkhed in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra. Under a water balance study was carried out in these blocks to understand the overall water demand and supply cycle specifically for domestic use, agriculture-based livelihoods and livestock from the point of view of increasing water security and sustainability. The study was supported by Agriculture Development Trust, Baramati.
Date of Publication: July 2020
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| Situational Analysis of Current Monitoring Systems for Eco-restoration (Soil Restoration and Water Resources Development) Projects in Agroecological Landscapes
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Monitoring, verification and reporting are integral components of all major ecosystem restoration projects as they help in improving efficiency, effectiveness and impact. There are many tools, both analogue and, in recent times, digital, that are being used for this purpose. This report is a situational analysis of such tools, mainly those developed and deployed by Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)—a non-government, civil society organisation based in India since the last three decades—in their ecosystem restoration work. It is undertaken as part of the ecosystem restoration workstream of the SEWOH Lab Project and as a collaboration between SOPPECOM, Pune and TMG, Berlin.
Date of Publication: July 2022
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| Scoping Study on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) in Ecosystem Restoration with a Focus on Agro-ecological Landscapes
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This is a report published on the scoping study conducted by SOPPECOM under its SEWOH Lab project. The scoping study covers the following: i) Review of the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) process of ecosystem restoration projects in agro-ecological landscapes in India from the ground to the state and central governments. ii) the contribution local level data makes in informing development, climate and SDG objectives.
Date of Publication: July 2022
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| Understanding how Locally-led Initiatives through Digitalisation Help Strengthen Water Governance
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The report is a publication brought out as a research study was carried out under the SEWOH lab project, specifically under the workstream ‘Ecosystems-based climate adaptation (EbA): Digitalisation in ecosystem-based climate adaptation—Bridging the last mile through social innovations.’ The objective of the research study was to learn from various initiatives in the water sector and understand how local institutions use digital tools in participatory water monitoring, water budgeting, and water-sensitive crop planning among others.
Date of Publication: March 2023
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| Need Assessment of Digital Solutions for the Management of Sustainable and Equitable Water Use with Water User’s Associations in Atpadi
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The report is a publication brought out as a part of the SEWOH Lab project on “Strengthening Water Governance of the Water User’s Associations through Digitalisation. The report mainly addresses the following:
i) community’s perspective regarding the need for a digital tool in the management of water resources and
ii) to explore the opportunities and challenges involved in undertaking the deployment of the app among the water users.
Date of Publication: August 2023
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| Need Assessment of Digital Solutions for the Management of Sustainable and Equitable Water Use with Water User’s Associations in Atpadi
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The report is a publication brought out a part of the SEWOH Lab project on understanding the digital ecosystem in the agriculture and water sector. The report aims to review and create a repository of the different tools that are available for natural resources management with the focus on agriculture and water
Date of publication: December 2023
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| पाणी- अन्न – जैवविविधता यातील परस्परसंबंधांच्या संधर्भात ऊर्ध्व भीमा उपखोर्याचे परिस्थितीक विश्लेषण
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हा अहवाल फेअर स्ट्रीम प्रकल्पांतर्गत प्रकाशित केला आहे. ह्या प्रकल्पाचा मुख्य हेतू अप्पर भीमा खोऱ्यातील पाणी-अन्न-जैवविविधता यांच्यातील परस्परसंबंधांबाबत (nexus) ज्ञानाची एकत्रित निर्मिती करणे आणि या खोऱ्यातील प्रमुख आव्हाने ओळखून शाश्वत व न्याय्य भविष्यासाठीचे मार्ग शोधणे असा होता.
प्रकाशनाची तारीख: जानेवारी २०२४
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| Baseline assessment of the Pavana catchment for the implementation of watershed development and sustainable water resources management
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This report on baseline assessment of the Pavana catchment, located in the upper Western Ghats, provides a comprehensive foundation for planning watershed development and sustainable water resources management interventions. The study brings together physical, ecological, hydrological, and socio-economic analyses to inform strategies that are technically robust, ecologically appropriate, and socially inclusive, and that respond to the specific biophysical and livelihood contexts of the catchment.
Date of Publication: May 2025
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| Illusions of Liquid Rulers: The Interlinking of Rivers – The Ken-Betwa Linking Project, A Review
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This report synthesizes the extensive but diffused debate around the Interlinking of Rivers, specifically taking the case study of the Ken Betwa Linking Project.
Date of Publication: October 2022
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| Mahanadi Basin: An Alternative Approach to Inter-state Water Sharing and Management An Approach Paper
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This paper details out the issues around the Mahanadi water dispute and propose an alternative approach to resolve the conflict, moving away from the conventional approaches to inter-state water disputes in the Mahanadi River Basin
Date of publication: January 2021
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| From Conflict to Co-production: A Multi-stakeholder Analysis in Preserving the East Kolkata Wetlands
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The report is a part of the work of the Water Conflict Forum which was done by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) on East Kolkata Wetlands to understand the present condition of the wetland, the main causes for its degradation, growing contestations around the wetland and the impact on the fishworkers.
Date of publication: February 2019
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महानदी घाटी में कृषि और औद्योगिक जल का आवंटन और उपयोग – संक्षिप्त रिपोर्ट
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यह रिपोर्ट "महानदी नदी बेसिन में जल आवंटन और उपयोग: कृषि और औद्योगिक क्षेत्र का एक अध्ययन" का एक संक्षिप्त संस्करण है जिसका अनुवाद हिंदी में किया गया है। यह रिपोर्ट पानी के आवंटन और दो सबसे बड़े क्षेत्रों- कृषि और उद्योग में उपयोग के बारे में बात करती है। वर्तमान जल संसाधनों और जल नियोजन पर इन दोनों क्षेत्रों के निहितार्थ को समझने का प्रयास, आवंटन के कारण बढ़ते पानी के संघर्ष और इन मुद्दों को कैसे न्यायसंगत और टिकाऊ ढंग से सुलझाया जा सकता है।
प्रकाशन दिनांक: जुलाई २०१७
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| Understanding the Nature, Forms, and Implications of Structural Violence Against Rural Women in the Context of Agrarian Distress |
Intersecting Inequalities: Climate-Induced Migration and Its Effects on Women Farmers and Agricultural Workers in India.
(With a focus on Maharashtra, Telangana, and Punjab)
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| An Invisible Force Deserving Attention and Support : A photo essay unveiling the lives of rural young women |
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| Understanding the nature, forms and implications of structural violence against rural women in the context of agrarian distress |
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This study was conducted in the three states of Maharashtra, Telangana and Punjab.
Findings from the study could be read here:
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Summary reports for each state included in the study can be accessed here:
Maharashtra state summary report
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Telangana state summary report
Punjab state summary report
Fact Sheet: Farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab and Telangana
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Everyday Violence Against Women in Agriculture
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A study done by Feminist Policy Collective, Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch
Supported by ANANDI, SAHAJ and SOPPECOM
The Study Report could be Read Here
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| From Relief to Reform : Women Farmer’s Experiments in Kitchen Gardens and Fisheries in the Pandemic |
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| Awareness Material about local level health structures, roles of health officials for women cane cutters |
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| Handout on Rights of Cane Cutters (2022) |
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| A Photo story based on the photos shared by the women cane cutters and SOPPECOM team during cane cutting season depicting women cane cutters issues from her own lens (Marathi) |
Click here to read marathi version
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| Policy brief report of agroecology programme: Women farmers show the way! Agroecology programme in Maharashtra (English) |
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| Policy brief report of agroecology programme: Women farmers show the way! Agroecology programme in Maharashtra (Marathi) |
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| अदृश्य कष्टकरी तरूण ग्रामीण स्त्रिया : ऊसतोड कामगार आणि आदिवासी शेतमजूर कुटुंबातील तरूण स्त्रियांचे जीवन समजून घेताना |
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| Through her lens: Self captured stories of women sugarcane cutters |
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| Innovative experiments by women farmers: sharing experiences from agro-ecology, fishery and kitchen garden programmes: Short proceedings of the workshop organised in December 2022 |
Report of the field study
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| मराठवाड्यातील गायरान जमीनधारकांचे शेती संबंधित प्रश्नांवरील अहवाल |
Report of the field study
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| आर्थिक, सामाजिक विवंचनेत जगणाऱ्या ऊसतोड कामगार महिलांचे दाहक वास्तव |
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| संकटातून निर्धारकडे : टाळेबंदी उठताना महाराष्ट्रातील एकट्या महिला शेतकऱ्यांचे वास्तव |
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| Crushed hopes: The plight of women cane cutters in Maharashtra |
Report of the field study
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| Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM): Unlocking the Crisis |
Report of the field study
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| Understanding climate change from rural women's perspective: |
Report of the field study
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| Understanding climate change from rural women's perspective: |
Report of the consultation
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| Jamin aani itar sansadhane- striya samantechya adhikaari aahet ka? |
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| Women and land rights, a study from Sangli district (Marathi) |
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| Women's rights over land, forest and water: Report of a state level consultation held on 5-6 April 2016. |
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| Women's rights over land, forest and water: Report of the regional meetings held in Maharashtra (Marathi) |
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| Women and land rights: a study of campaigns led by SWISSAID India partners: YUVA rural, Sakav, and RDC, August 2012 |
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| Social and gender equity gauge: piloting the tool for assessing inequities in the water sector in India and Nepal, January 2011 |
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Situational Analysis of Women Water Professionals in South Asia (August, 2009) |
This report is based on a short study done in four South Asian Countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka) and looks at different organizational as well as sectoral constraints faced by women working in the water sector.Click here to read..
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| Women and Land Rights in Maharashtra: Exploring the Facilitating and Constraining Factors in Achieving Resource Rights (June, 2008) |
The report is based on a desk study done for identifying the legal and social spaces for initiating a campaign on women and land rights. The report discusses the overall social, political and cultural scenario of the State and legal spaces and constraints around land rights and importantly how fertile ground it is for launching a struggle for women's right over property in the state of Maharashtra.Click here to read..
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| Water rights as women's rights? Assessing the scope for women's empowerment through decentralised water governance in Maharashtra and Gujarat, October 2008 |
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| Hindola (The Swing): Assessing extent and nature of desertion in Daund taluka and Ghole road ward of Pune city (December, 2008) |
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This report is based on a study done jointly by Women's Studies Centre of University of Pune and SOPPECOM. The study is one of the pioneering studies of its kind, and tries to address the issues of deserted women. It is an attempt to assess the extent of desertion and socio-economic condition of deserted women in the study area. Through this report we hope to contribute to public action and policy formation for deserted women.
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| Hindola: Daund taluka aani Ghole road kshetriya karyalayatil parityakta striyanche praman aani samajik- aarthik paristhiticha abhyas (Marathi) (December, 2008) |
| This is the Marathi report based on a study done jointly by Women’s Studies Centre of University of Pune and SOPPECOM. The study is one of the pioneering studies of its kind, and tries to address the issues of deserted women. It is an attempt to assess the extent of desertion and socio-economic condition of deserted women in the study area. Through this report we hope to contribute to public action and policy formation for deserted women |
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| Mainstreaming Rights of Deserted Women: A Livelihood Study of Deserted Women from Sangali District (October, 2005) |
This report is based on a study done in collaboration with Stree Mukti Sangharsh Chalwalin Sangli district of Maharashtra. The study is based on the interviews with deserted women who have been involved in the single women’s movement initiated by Stree Mukti Sangharsha Chalwal. The report looks at the livelihood patterns of these women.Click here to read..
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| Study of social movements on water in India |
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| Assessment of impact of water tariff 2010-2013, summary report |
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| Extending Agro-Climatic Regional Approach to District Level Planing: Jhabua Case Study, Vol. I & II (1991) |
K. R. Datye and Suhas Paranjape
Case study Report prepared for the Agro-Climatic Regional Planning Unit (ARPU) of the Planning Commission
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| An Overview of Technologies for Earthquake Resistant Buildings (1995) |
K. R. Datye, Vilas Gore and Suhas Paranjape
Available at: www.greenstone.org
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| Evaluation study of the community based eco-regeneration in Dharand Bagdunda areas of south Rajasthan (1997) |
Suhas Paranjape, K. J. Joy, Seema Kulkarni and R. Samantray
Evaluation Report, Ubeshwar Vikas Mandal, Udaipur
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| Energy survey study: Report for Malshiras IREP block (2000) |
Suhas Paranjape, Seema Kulkarni and K. J. Joy
Study report
Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management, Pune
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| Status of small water harvesting structures in a sub-basin in Udaipur region (2001) |
Suhas Paranjape, Vilas Gore, K. J. Joy and Ajay Singh
Unpublished study report, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management, Pune
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| Regarding Capitalism, part of "Red and Green: An Uneasy Marriage (2007) |
Suhas Paranjape
Written for the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore (mimeo)
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| Innovative Technology and Institutional Options in Rainfed and Irrigated Agriculture (2009) |
Striver technical summary report Click here to read..
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| Water Sector Governance: Robust Watershed Hydrology Modelling Options for Participative Governance (2009) |
Suhas Paranjape
WGP Review Paper, Water Governance Project, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, New Delhi
Available at: www.indiawaterportal.org
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| Strategies and recommendations for river basin management in Tungabhadra (June, 2009) |
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| Life, Livelihoods, Ecosystems, Culture: Entitlements and Allocations of Water for Competing Uses |
The report is the result of the work of the first of the two groups set up in 2009 by the Forum on two important issues, namely,
1) Water Entitlements and Allocation for Livelihoods and Ecosystem Needs
2) Institutional and Legal Issues Related to Water Conflict Resolution. We are glad to release this report of the first group comprising K. J. Joy, Priya Sangameshwaran, Shripad Dharmadhikari, A. Latha, Prof. M.K Prasad and K. P. Soma. We hope that this report would provide some inputs into the ongoing process of the review of the National Water Policy.
The report is available at a contributory price of Rs. 100/- from SOPPECOM. Please write to Pratima at soppecom@gmail.com to order a copy. |
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| Action Research Report: Linking Lives Reviving Flows: Towards Resolving Upstream Downstream Conflicts in Chalakudy River Basin |
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