Gender Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) Technology and Energy Watershed planning and assessment Water Conflicts
		Technology and Energy     SOPPECOM believes that the choice of technology in development can have a significant bearing – directly or indirectly - on sustainability, livelihood, equity and participation. We believe that technology choice should prioritise: i. Equal or comparable performance or function as compared to  conventional technology; ii. Some cost reduction; iii. Large energy saving; iv Increase in component of local labour and local materials; v Amenability to modular design and modules that can be fabricated or manufactured in dispersed rural industries or work places and assembled at site; vi Opportunities for local skill upgradation and development; and vii Last but not least, potential to be understood and accepted by the local communities. SOPPECOM and its members have therefore also been involved in technology development in the areas of low external input, sustainable agriculture, optimal equitable access systems for water source development and distribution as well as rural infrastructure technology. We see these as playing a dual role: firstly, bringing down the economic and energy cost of development for the poor and secondly, also laying the basis for a dispersed industrial system that can join up with a sustainable agriculture to take us to a sustainable prosperity for all.
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