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1 Das, D.; Chatterjee, A.; Samanta, G.; Chowdhury, T. R.; Mandal, B. K.; Dhar, R.; Chanda, C. R.; Lodh, D.; Chowdhury, P. P.; Basu, G. K.; Biswas, B. K.; Chowdhury, U. K.; Rahman, M. M.; Paul, K.; Chakraborti, D. 2001. A simple household device to remove arsenic from groundwater and two years performance report of arsenic removal plant for treating groundwater with community participation. In Ahmed, M. F.; Ali, M. A.; Adeel, Z. (Eds.), Technologies for arsenic removal from drinking water: A compilation of papers presented at the International Workshop on Technologies for Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water organized by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh and The United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo, Japan. Dhaka, Bangladesh; Tokyo, Japan: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; UNU. pp.231-250.
Water quality ; Pollution control ; Groundwater ; Households ; Social participation ; Performance evaluation ; Technology transfer / India / Bangladesh / Mongolia / China / Taiwan / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 628.1 G584 AHM Record No: H029473)
2 Das, D.. 2005. Integrated remote sensing and geographical information system based approach towards groundwater development in hard-rock terrain. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 9p.
Groundwater development ; Water table ; Artificial recharge ; Drainage ; Remote sensing ; GIS / India / West Bengal / Bankura District
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037525)
3 Das, D.. 2006. Demystifying the myth of shifting cultivation: Agronomy in the North-East. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(47):4912-4917.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7682 Record No: H039459)
4 Das, D.. 2005. Integrated remote sensing and geographical information system based approach towards groundwater development through artificial recharge in hard-rock terrain. In Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.). Proceedings of East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7 – 9 March 2005. Theme six: modelling and decision aid tools: water economics and livelihoods. Morogoro, Tanzania: Soil-Water Management Research Group, Sokoine University of Agriculture. pp.313-321.
Remote sensing ; GIS ; Artificial recharge ; Water table ; Groundwater development / India / West Bengal / Bankura district
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: CD Col Record No: H041169)
5 Leder, S.; Shrestha, Gitta; Das, D.. 2019. Transformative engagements with gender relations in agriculture and water governance. New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, 5(1):128-158. (Special issue: Water Security and Inclusive Water Governance in the Himalayas)
Gender relations ; Agriculture ; Water governance ; Participatory approaches ; Participatory research ; Gender training ; Community involvement ; Women farmers ; Labour ; Water resources ; Water management ; Villages ; Social aspects / Nepal / India / Eastern Tarai / Bihar / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049737)
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Despite frequent calls for transformative approaches for engaging in agrarian change and water governance, we observe little change in everyday development and research praxis. Empirical studies on transformative engagements with gender relations among smallscale or tenant farmers and water user groups are particularly rare. We explore transformative engagements through an approach based on critical pedagogy (Freire, 1996) and transformative practice (Leder, 2018). We examine opportunities to promote empathy and critical consciousness on gender norms, roles and relations in agriculture and resource management. We developed and piloted an innovative “Participatory Gender Training for Community Groups” as part of two internationally funded water security projects. The training consists of three activities and three discussions to reflect on gender roles in families, communities and agriculture, to discuss the gendered division of labour and changing gender relations over time and space, and to create empathy and resolve conflicts through a bargaining role play with switched genders. The approach was implemented in twelve villages across four districts in Nepal and India (Bihar, West Bengal). Our results show how the training methods can provide an open space to discuss local gender roles within households, agriculture and natural resource management. Discussing own gender norms promotes critical consciousness that gender norms are socially constructed and change with age, class, caste and material and structural constraints such as limited access to water and land. The activities stimulated enthusiasm and inspiration to reflect on possible change towards more equal labor division and empathy towards those with weaker bargaining power. Facilitators have the most important role in transformative engagements and need to be trained to reinterpret training principles in local contexts, and to apply facilitation skills to focus on transforming rather than reproducing gender norms. We argue that the gender training methods can initiate transformative practice with the gender-water-agriculture nexus by raising critical consciousness of farmers, community mobilisers, and project staff on possibilities of social change “in situ”.
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