Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empo...
Leder, Stephanie
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Clement, Floriane
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Karki, Emma
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[Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in western Nepal]
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Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in western Nepal
Global discourses have advocated women's empowerment as a means to enhance food security. Our objective was to critically review the causal linkages between women's empowerment and food availability and access. We relied on mixed methods and a cross-country analysis, using household survey data f...
Clement, Floriane
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Buisson, Marie-Charlotte
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Leder, Stephanie
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Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Saikia, Panchali
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Karki, Emma
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[From women's empowerment to food security: revisiting global discourses through a cross-country analysis]
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From women's empowerment to food security: revisiting global discourses through a cross-country analysis
Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power stru...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Karki, Emma
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Bharati, Luna
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[The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal]
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The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
Leder, Stephanie
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Das, Dipika
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Reckers, Andrew
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Karki, Emma
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[Participatory gender training for community groups: a manual for critical discussions on gender norms, roles and relations]
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Participatory gender training for community groups: a manual for critical discussions on gender norms, roles and relations
This paper investigates the spatial dimension of power relations and the shaping of local alliances through a hydropower development project in Nepal. It provides a grass-roots illustration on the role of space in shaping and reshaping power relations, and how it manifests in the formation of loc...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Karki, Emma
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[Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower]
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Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower
Women’s empowerment has been a key tenet of international water security programmes. Discourses on water envision that enhanced access to water resources can transform disempowered women into successful rural entrepreneurs. However, because such programmes often rely on simplistic representations...
Clement, Floriane
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Karki, Emma
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[When water security programmes seek to empower women-a case study from western Nepal]
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When water security programmes seek to empower women-a case study from western Nepal