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Leveraging Institutions for Enhanced Collective Action in Community Watersheds through Harnessing Gender Power for Sustainable Development

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Title Leveraging Institutions for Enhanced Collective Action in Community Watersheds through Harnessing Gender Power for Sustainable Development
 
Creator Sreedevi, T K
Wani, S P
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description In the drought prone rain-fed areas "\vatersheds are.
recognized as growth engine for agricultural as well
as overall development to achieve food security.
Sustainable management· of a watershed entails

rational utilization of land and water resources for

optimum production but minimum hazard to

natural and human resources. For the benefits of

community-based watersheds to maximize anu

reach all stakeholders it is necessary to include

equity and gender parity into the program design

itself. Inclusion of women and reSource poor is

of paramount importance fot the watershed

development to become truly participatory in both

implemeqtation and impacts. Two thirds of the

illiterate in the world are women, have no property

rights (women hold 1/1000rh world property) and

have no economic independence (70% of the

world's pqor are women) (UNDP 1997).
 
Publisher Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction
 
Date 2007
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3804/1/Empowering_the_Poor_in_the_Era_of_Knowledge_Economy.pdf
Sreedevi, T K and Wani, S P (2007) Leveraging Institutions for Enhanced Collective Action in Community Watersheds through Harnessing Gender Power for Sustainable Development. In: Empowering the Poor in the Era of Knowledge Economy. Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction, Ahmedabad, Gujurat, pp. 27-39.