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Indian secondary cities face persistent water governance challenges due to rapid urbanization, infrastructural deficits, and socio-political inequities. These issues result in water scarcity, contamination, and flooding, exacerbated by governance structures that prioritize technocratic, top-down solutions over systemic, inclusive transformation. De...
Addressing water challenges in resource-constrained ‘Southern’ cities requires ‘reparation’, a transformative governance approach rooted in restorative justice. In India, formal governance often struggles to tackle social stratification and colonial legacies effectively, sometimes even reinforcing them. This study compares how informality can foste...
Addressing the persistent challenges of water management in India necessitates innovative approaches that transcend traditional methods. The concept of the Water Sensitive City (WSC), hereinafter referred to as water sensitivity, is advanced as an approach to combat these enduring issues.
To facilitate the transition to water sensitivity, we emplo...
Cities of India find it challenging to address the complex water crises in the form of scarcity, pollution, floods and unequal access. The current technology-heavy approach needs a multi-disciplinary perspective to read wicked problems. The prevalence of these problems has obstructed cross-agency cooperation, transparent implementation and maintena...
Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo, change the dominant structures, and support just sustainability transitions by working collaboratively with society. When engaging in such science-practice collaborati...
The Actors of Urban Change (ACT) program empowers urban change makers to make their cities a better place. Over eight years, the program has attracted over 120 participants from 37 cities all over Europe, including Turkey, Georgia and Russia. But how did the program actually empower all these local projects? DRIFT evaluated the impact of the progra...
Access to water is understood as the ability to derive benefits from water for a given condition and in a particular situation. However, the benefits (or lack thereof) are reaped differently by men, women and children. The gendered norms thereby play a critical role in the division of labour. The voices which represent these issues also embody such...
The goal of the project was to prepare a graphical manual for stakeholders involved in adopting and implementing TOD, develop the understanding of the processes and provisions as defined in MPD – 2021 for facilitating TOD in Delhi and hence bring in common interpretation language for various stakeholders.
The Manual is available on the following l...
