In Nepal, as in other South Asian countries, water resource development is often considered to be a primarily technological challenge, requiring engineered solutions. Many years of advocacy for gender equality in water management - drawing attention to the need for local institutional changes has...
Shrestha, Gitta
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Clement, Floriane
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[Gender, Social Capital and Collective Action: A gender perspective on collective sustainability of water resource governance in west Nepal]
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Gender, Social Capital and Collective Action: A gender perspective on collective sustainability of water resource governance in west Nepal
Mainstreaming gender in water governance through “how to do gender” toolkits has long been a development focus. It has been widely argued that such toolkits simplify the complex, nuanced realities of inequalities by gender in relation to water and fail to pay attention to the fact that the propos...
Shrestha, Gitta
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Joshi, Deepa
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Clement, Floriane
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[Masculinities and hydropower in India: a feminist political ecology perspective]
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Masculinities and hydropower in India: a feminist political ecology perspective
Despite decades of gender mainstreaming in the water sector, a wide gap between policy commitments and outcomes remains. This study aims at offering a fresh perspective on such policy gaps, by analysing how gendered discourses, institutions and professional culture contribute to policy gaps. We r...
Shrestha, Gitta
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Clement, Floriane
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[Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal]
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Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal
Upreti, Bishnu Raj
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Shrestha, Gitta
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[The road to parliament: women in Nepal’s representative assemblies]
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The road to parliament: women in Nepal’s representative assemblies