Engendering community rights: women's access to water and wasteland in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
Chhaya Datar; Aseem Prakash
Livelihood and gender equity in community resource management: 137-168
2004
Document Number: 274565
This chapter analyses the successful and not so successful initiatives in watershed management in India from the standpoint of poor women and marginalized social groups. The importance of sustainability and equity at all levels is emphasized. An alternative policy regime permitting empowered livelihoods for the resource poor is then presented. It is argued that poor women can have control over productive resources if the water 'newly created' in watersheds through public money is treated as common property, and if the 'social privatization' of common land is linked to employment assistance schemes.