Consolidating data to accelerate water security plan development
Effective water governance and disaster response needs data of stock of water resources, rate of flow of water, soil moisture levels, daily precipitation levels.
Demonstration of Participatory Groundwater Management in Bhuj – a step towards building a Water-resilient city
The project aimed at mainstreaming groundwater concerns in Bhuj and integrating decentralized and community based groundwater management into the town’s planning and development. The interventions involved both social processes and technical processes. On the social front a cadre of para professionals and community representatives having knowledge on urban watershed and groundwater management was created and citizens’ action group was created to enable their participation.
Rapid Rural Community Response (RCRC) to COVID-19 in India
The unprecedented spread of the COVID-19 virus has presented a threefold crisis worldwide – public health, economic and socio-psychological; a truly population scale problem. The reverse migration triggered by the sudden announcement of the lockdown in India poses a huge challenge for the scores of migrant workers trying to get back to the safety of their homes in their native villages.
Response For COVID-19 in Bhachau Block (Kutch) of Gujarat
In the wake the COVID-19 Pandemic, Samerth Charitable Trust is working to provide relief and rehabilitation in the Khadir Region of Kutch, an island sharing a border with Pakistan and comprising 14 villages with semi-arid areas in the north-west corner of the island and covered by the greater rann of Kutch. The people living in these villages belong to Koli, Parkara Koli, Muslims, Ahir Koli and Bharwad communities.
A Framework for Rural Drinking Water Quality Management: Collating Experiences from the Voluntary Sector
Through this document, we have attempted to decode and structure existing field knowledge drawn from 12 NGOs working on water quality management.
Step-by-step achieving sustainable sanitation
A culmination of months of deliberations on sustainable sanitation efforts implemented by leading civil society organisations over the last few decades.
Participating in Government Programmes
A learning document - end product of project that was coordinated and anchored by the Grants Team at Arghyam. It comprises of a series of stakeholder discussions.
An Approach to Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM)
Arghyam’s effort to put the concept of an IUWM model in Mulbagal into practice has lasted five years. This idea, the realisation of which is still evolving, would not have been possible without the inspiration, hard work and commitment of many individuals and institutions along the way.