IRC Associate
I am a research and policy advocacy professional specialising in water, sanitation and hygiene. I advise several industry organisations and social ventures on WASH. I led the national advocacy and research team at WaterAid India and worked as the water programme director with the Centre for Science and Environment. I have written books on India’s traditional water wisdom, rural governance, trends in rural development and an UN-sponsored publication Water Voices From Around The World. At the moment, I am Coordinator of the SuSanA India Chapter.
I have a master’s degree in mass communication and an advanced certificate in integrated water resources management.
The food and water hygiene in two Liberian communities was studied in a house-to-house diarhhoea survey. The level of contamination with... Read more...
Presented in this report are the experiences gained while evaluating the technical aspects of an international non-governmental organization project... Read more...
The Oxfam report explores how women and men experience poverty and exclusion, why, and how their experience is changing in 90s Britain. It concludes... Read more...
The incidences of Schistosoma mansoni infection and reinfection were investigated in an endemic area of Brazil, Peri-Peri, State of Minas Gerais,... Read more...
Community-based studies of diarrhoea etiology and epidemiology were carried out from July 1982 - June 1984 in 153 infants living in a poor peri-urban... Read more...
This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research. The aim of the book is to connect theory and practice, and to... Read more...
This document aims to make more water sector staff aware of the value of using learning in a systematic and analytical way. It provides the basic... Read more...
The book seeks to raise awareness of people's innovation by presenting 17 cases of locally developed technologies from 14 countries in Asia, Africa,... Read more...