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

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.

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Abstract

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).

Item Type: Book Section
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Subjects: Others > Watershed Management
Depositing User: Mr Sanat Kumar Behera
Date Deposited: 08 Nov 2011 04:59
Last Modified: 08 Nov 2011 05:16
URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3804
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