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Activities within
the grant and expected impact:
The IWMI-Tata Water Policy Programme
was launched in 2000, with the support of
Trusts. Now under a second phase of support,
the programme presents new perspectives
and practical solutions derived from the
wealth of research done in India on water
resource management.
Its objective is to help policy makers
at the central, state and local levels address
their water challenges — in areas such
as sustainable groundwater management, water
scarcity, and rural poverty — by translating
research findings into practical policy
recommendations.
Through this program, IWMI collaborates
with a range of partners across India to
identify, analyse and document relevant
water-management approaches and current
practices. These practices are assessed
and synthesised for maximum impact on policy,
through IWMI-Tata Publications.
The key areas of focus are:
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Idea
incubation for the Trusts, wherein the
IWMI-Tata Programme generates ideas
that have far reaching positive consequences
on the poor, and thus offer important
funding opportunities to the Trusts
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Technical
backstopping for the Trusts, where the
IWMI-Tata Programme provides and arranges
technical support in project appraisal,
monitoring and evaluation in projects
that have Natural Resources Management
as a significant component, on behalf
of the Trusts |
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Retaining
emphasis on water policy issues, while
seeking to adopt a holistic approach
to comprehensively address the issues
of Natural Resources Management |
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Adopting
a multi-location research strategy by
building up a national profile on a
range of important policy issues in
the water sector, generating a detailed
profile of a dozen regions that capture
most of India’s hydro-geographic
diversities, and augmenting capacity
for research in water policy in a number
of partners in those locations |
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Expending
significant efforts at capacity building
of water sector researchers |
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Undertaking
research in organisational and institutional
processes in the agencies involved in
the water sector, whilst exploring,
understanding and incorporating the
real constraints at improving policy
formulation and implementation |
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