1. 5th November,2012
Ms. Nafisa Barot

2. Bhal Region
Initiation of Utthan - Mahiti

4. Issues of
the most
vulnerable
Transport of water from long
distances:
problems of theft, breakage,
maintenance, corruption,
equity & lack of local control

5. •Indiscriminate use of ground
water resources
•Indiscriminate agricultural &
industrial practices

6. Government response:
centralised programmes
• Large dam construction, irrigation canals
• River-linking project
• Kalpasar dam
• Privatization of water services
• Unviable water pricing
• adhoc rain water harvesting, recharging & conservation efforts

7. Impact on the most vulnerable
• Health
• Conflict / violence
• Strong patriarchy
• Caste, class, gender,
religious discrimination
• Migration

8. Impact on the most vulnerable
•Salinity ingress & low agriculture
production
•Severe drinking water & sanitation
problems, other livelihood insecurity &
distress migration
•Decline in health status specially in
women, children & poor
•Increasing conflicts

9. Interventions
Organizing women’s groups
around major issues
Breaking barriers of caste/class
Savings & credit systems
Livelihood security
Challenging patriarchy
Evolving their own action plan
Demanding change from the
government / society

10. Interventions
Community mobilization
Protest against industrial
pollution (Amreli)
Demanding decentralised
safe drinking water
system
( Bhavnagar )

11. Negotiating &
demanding space for
equality
River basin
dialogue for
conflict resolution

12. Gender sensitive people centered
approaches in actions
Lining of the tank
Demanding decentralized
alternatives for better access &
control

13. Harvesting rain water

14. Demonstrations of
alternatives by
communities on scale
Local water resource
building
Developing norms for
common property resource
use & management

15. Demonstrations of
alternatives by
communities on scale
Ecological sanitation

16. Subsurface check dam
for salinity prevention
Roof water collection
tank

17. Control over resource and
management by water
committees

19. Addressing the issue of
health, hygiene, dignity
& privacy
Waste water management

20. Change-makers:
mobilizing children
& youth

21. Building bridges through
common gender needs to
transform conflicts
For peace & justice

22. Demonstrations for resource
protection

23. Government

24. Civil Society