Suhas Paranjape

"Multi-stakeholder dialogue is messy, but necessary": Presentations made at the workshop on "Understanding and resolving water conflicts in the North East India", organised in January 2012

A workshop on ‘Understanding and resolving water conflicts in the North East India', was organized by Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India (Forum), in collaboration with Aaranyak (Guwahati), Centre for the Environment, IIT (Guwahati), Arghyam (Bangalore), SaciWATERs-CapNet Network (SCaN) and Cap-Net to discuss emerging issues related to water conflicts and their resolution in the region. This workshop was held in Guwahati on January 23-26, 2012. It aimed at presenting concepts and theory related water conflicts as well as issues especially relevant to the North East Region.

Conflict flow chart

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Guwahati, AS, India
Latitude: 26.147129, Longitude: 91.735551

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Content Type: Case Studies, Courses, Maps
Media Type: Presentations
Category: Arbitration, Conflicts, Dams, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms, Stakeholder Dialogue, Water Conflicts, Water Negotiations, Water-Induced Hazards
Associated People / Organizations: Aaranyak, Arghyam, Cap-Net, Centre for the Environment - IIT Guwahati, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, SaciWATERs-CapNet Network (SCaN)
Author: Chandan Mahanta, KJ Joy, Partha Das, Rushabh Hemani, Suhas Paranjape
Source: Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, Raju Mimi
Location / Time: Assam, Guwahati, 2012
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

"It is necessary to move away from a project-based approach towards a holistic perspective": Report of the dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning held from 9 to 11 August 2011 (New Delhi)

This three day dialogue workshop on 'Mainstreaming river basin planning' held from 9th to 11th August 2011 in New Delhi intended to bring together activists involved in dam movements and other social and environmental movements, civil society groups, experts in water resources management, environment, river basin planning, officials from all the relevant ministries and departments and others concerned. Selected invitees from South Asian countries were also invited for sharing their views on transboundary issues.

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Difficulties in adopting the IWRM and integrated basin planning concepts in India - AD Mohile - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	43.59 KB
Ganga river basin environment management plan - IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	1.56 MB
From micro-watershed to river basin - Issues and prospects of upscaling - KJ Joy and Suhas Paranjpye - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	754.64 KB
Master plan for integrated development & management of water resources of Godavari basin - DM More - Dialogue on river basin planning (2011)	1.22 MB
Cumulative impact assessments in river basins - Neeraj Wagholikar - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	6.33 MB
Some issues for trans-boundary river basin management and planning - Gopal Siwakoti - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	240.38 KB
Pollution management at a basin level - Vishwanath Srikantaiah - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	6.69 MB
India's tryst with the big dams: The performance and future perspectives of large dams in the river basin context - Himanshu Thakkar - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	1.91 MB
Are river flows to the sea a waste ? - A Latha - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	5.93 MB
Environmental flows and its assessment for upper stretch of river Ganga - Nitin Kaushal - Dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning (2011)	398.95 KB

Location

New Delhi, DL, India
Latitude: 28.635308, Longitude: 77.224960

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Content Type: Media
Media Type: Presentations
Category: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Dams, Drinking Water, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Flows, Farming, Fishing Communities, Forests, Hydrology, Hydropower, Irrigation, LIvelihoods, Marginalisation, Mining, River Basins, River Pollution, Rivers, Tribal Communities, Water Bodies, Water Privatisation
Associated People / Organizations: Biome Environmental Solutions Private Limited, Gomukh Environmental Trust for Sustainable Development, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), International Rivers, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment, Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, River Research Centre, SOPPECOM, South Asian Network for Dams Rivers and People (SANDRP)
Author: DM More, Gopal Siwakoti, Himanshu Thakkar, KJ Joy, Latha Anantha, Neeraj Vagholikar, Nitin Kaushal, Ramaswamy Iyer, Suhas Paranjape, Vinod Tare, Vishwanath S
Source: Gomukh Environmental Trust for Sustainable Development Pune, International Rivers, Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, River Research Centre
Location / Time: Brahmaputra, Chalukudy, Ganga, Godavari, Kerala, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Teesta, 2011
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Water: Policy and performance for sustainable development - India Infrastructure Report 2011

The India Infrastructure Report (2011) brought out by the Infrastructure Development Finance Company focuses on 'water' and seeks to 'evolve an appropriate policy framework from the perspective of rights, entitlements, and conflict resolution mechanisms'. The report aims to answer the following questions:

How clear is the strategic vision for water resource management and sustainable development?
How effective and equitable is the legal framework?
Given that only the supply-side approach will not help in meeting future demand, what legal, regulatory, institutional, and pricing mechanisms will be necessary to efficiently manage and restrain demand?

This information-rich report has data on various topics such as water resources in India (present and projections), irrigation, groundwater, rainfall, urbanization, water institutions, water infrastructure(urban and rural), water economics, and waste water.

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Water: Policy and performance for sustainable development- India infrastructure report 2011	6.38 MB

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Robust watershed modeling options for participative governance - A Water Governance Project review paper

This technical review paper puts forward robust watershed modeling options as an instrument of participative governance in the water sector, where there is common agreement among stakeholders on assessment of resource and on the manner in which it is to be utilized. Reasonably validated estimates are developed based on existing data and different scenarios are explored. The models offer a scope of assessing the potential changes in watershed hydrology and water availability due to watershed development projects, and can be used as a basis for planning and monitoring.Read More

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Robust Watershed Hydrology - Modelling Options by Suhas Paranjape for WGP (2009)	208.33 KB

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Content Type: Research
Category: Hydrology, River Basin Modeling, River Basins, Water Governance, Watershed Development, Watersheds
Author: Suhas Paranjape
Source: Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD)
Location / Time: India, 2009
Difficulty Level: Expert

Reorienting the watershed development programme in India – An Occasional Paper by CISED, GIDR and SOPPECOM

This report by FoRWARD deals with the reorientation of the watershed development programme in India. Watershed development is increasingly seen as the lynchpin of rural development in dryland areas – one that integrates sectors and provides the foundation for subsequent development.Read More

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Reorienting the watershed development programme in India – A Occasional paper by CISED, GIDR and SOPPECOM (2006)	217.05 KB

Watershed development review: Issues and prospects - A CISED Technical Report

The present review, undertaken by CISED, hopes to contribute to the process of ensuring that the experiences from the first generation of watershed development are fully understood and internalized. The normative framework underlying the review “Understanding watershed development” requires a “normative framework” embracing the notions of “watershed” and “watershed development’, and how they are translated into practice. Such translation may also be based upon additional assumption about what is possible and desirable, and how to bring these changes about.Read More

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Watershed development review: Issues and prospects - A CISED Technical Report (Executive Summary)	37.2 KB
Watershed development review: Issues and prospects - A CISED Technical Report (Full Report)	1.26 MB

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Content Type: Research
Category: Agriculture, Ecosystems, Forests, Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, Groundwater Usage, Land Cover, River Basins, Soils, Surface Water, Watershed Development, Watersheds
Author: Suhas Paranjape, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), K. J. Joy, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED)
Source: Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED)
Location / Time: India
Difficulty Level: Expert

Watershed development in Maharashtra: Present scenario and issues for restructuring the programme

The report on “Watershed Development in Maharashtra” by Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM) ), on behalf of the Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue (ForWaRD), deals with the present scenario and issues for restructuring the programme. The concept of integrated and participatory watershed development and management has emerged as the cornerstone of rural development in the dry and semi-arid regions of India. Over the years the country has been making increasing investments in this area with the objective of enhancing the production potential of rainfed agriculture.

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Watershed development in Maharashtra: Present scenario and issues for restructuring the programme	1.45 MB

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Content Type: Research
Category: Agriculture, Erosion, Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, Irrigation, Land Cover, Land Use, Soils, Sustainable Agriculture, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Watersheds, Wells
Author: Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Seema Kulkarni, Prafull Deshpande, Raju Adagale, Sowjanya Peddi, Suhas Paranjape, K J Joy, Abraham Samuel
Source: Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)
Location / Time: India, Maharashtra
Difficulty Level: Expert

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Suhas Paranjape

"Multi-stakeholder dialogue is messy, but necessary": Presentations made at the workshop on "Understanding and resolving water conflicts in the North East India", organised in January 2012

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"It is necessary to move away from a project-based approach towards a holistic perspective": Report of the dialogue on mainstreaming river basin planning held from 9 to 11 August 2011 (New Delhi)

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Water: Policy and performance for sustainable development - India Infrastructure Report 2011

Robust watershed modeling options for participative governance - A Water Governance Project review paper

Reorienting the watershed development programme in India – An Occasional Paper by CISED, GIDR and SOPPECOM

Watershed development review: Issues and prospects - A CISED Technical Report

Watershed development in Maharashtra: Present scenario and issues for restructuring the programme

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