Participatory Local Democracy

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Water rights as women’s rights? : assessing the scope for women’s empowerment through decentralised water governance in Maharashtra and Gujarat

Abstract: The implications of decentralization of water governance in Maharashtra and Gujarat, India, for environmental democracy and gender rights are examined. The question to what extent participation in community water governance has been empowering for women representatives is addressed.

Author(s): Kulkarni, Seema

Source(s): , [230] p., ill., graphs, maps, tabs

Published: 2008 SOPPECOM [etc.], [Pune etc.] (English

ISBN/ISSN: /

Link: http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/12442185011Final_report_India_Water.pdf

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January 1, 2008

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decentralization in government, Empowerment, gender, Governance, India, Local Government, water supply, women in politics

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Water rights as women’s rights? : assessing the scope for women’s empowerment through decentralised water governance in Maharashtra and Gujarat

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