Past Events
Wednesday, 14 Dec 2016 - Wednesday, 14 Dec 2016
09:30 AM TO 05:30 PM
National Conference on Social Innovation for Improving Urban Sanitation: Lessons for Scaling-up
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in collaboration with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) organised a daylong national conference to highlight various social innovations by civil society organisations (CSOs) derived from the local contexts to improve access to sanitation.
The sheer magnitude of the sanitation challenge in India is so enormous that it is holding back the global sanitation
Monday, 17 Oct 2016
02:00 PM
Networking Event at the UN-HABITAT III Conference: Think Small, Go Big
A networking event at the UN-HABITAT III Conference organised by the Centre for Policy Research in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Habitat for Humanity, Southern Voice, the French National Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Slum Dwellers International, and UN-HABITAT
‘Think Small, Go Big’ seeks to bring small
Friday, 29 Jul 2016
03:00 PM
Shaping Community Engagement on Sanitation in the Urban Context: Sharing Experiences and Insights
In Delhi since 2007, with the fate of the successive elections at state and local self-governance level, being fought, won and lost over the issue of ‘pani’, toilet and garbage collection, and the readiness of the government to provide these basic services, it is evident that the patience of the residents of over 600 odd JJ slum clusters cannot be needled any longer. As long as the city is grouped into middle and
Monday, 27 Jun 2016 - Monday, 27 Jun 2016
11:30 AM TO 01:00 PM
Talk on Waste and Workers in Hyderabad
This talk looked at how the waste economy and different forms of work relating to waste interact with each other. Waste management in Indian cities is a question not only of urban governance, i.e. of how and whether the solid waste is managed, but also of urban informality, i.e. the informal actors and institutions involved in waste management. This talk attempted to shed light on the process of waste management in
Thursday, 14 Jan 2016 - Saturday, 16 Jan 2016
09:30 AM TO 05:30 PM
Water Regimes Questioned from the “Global South”: Agents, Practices and Knowledge
The workshop is being organised by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in collaboration with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi), UMI iGlobes (CNRS, University of Arizona), French Institute of Pondicherry and the support of the Indo French Water Network (Embassy of France) ANR Engind.
The main hypothesis of this workshop is that it is impossible to understand water policies without looking at the key
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015 - Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
03:30 PM TO 05:30 PM
Ganges Water Machine: Constructing a Dynamic Atlas of the Ganga River Basin
Of all the ways one might qualify the Ganges River Basin—rural, urban, suburban, landscape, drosscape, edge city, and megalopolis–none of these accurately defines such elaborately engineered spaces and infrastructures. Instead, through the construction of thousands of kilometres of canals and the sinking of millions of tubewells, the basin has been transformed into a giant water machine.
From the foothills of the
Thursday, 24 Sep 2015 - Thursday, 24 Sep 2015
09:30 AM TO 05:00 PM
Towards Swachh Bharat: Creating Demand & Building Partnerships - National Conference on Sanitation
The Conference was held against the backdrop of the first year anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission to deliberate on issues and draw out an effective course of action to make Swachh Bharat a reality. In particular, the Conference focused on engaging the private sector in sanitation service delivery to India’s cities and villages – covering both, existing initiatives and future possibilities.
The study report
Monday, 21 Sep 2015
04:00 PM
Generating Fiscal Space: A Suggested Framework
Generating Fiscal Space: A Suggested Framework
Fragile macroeconomic environment, constrained tax policy autonomy, and higher funding, needs to meet the rising needs and expectations of citizens for public amenities. This challenge also confronts the policy makers in India at Union, State, and Urban and local government levels. This has lent greater urgency to generating fiscal space while sustaining high broad-
Monday, 29 Jun 2015
03:00 PM
NITI Aayog – CPR 2nd open seminar on “Conceptualising zero-waste in India under Swachh Bharat: possibilities and challenges"
In 2011, urban India generated 62 million tonnes of solid waste per year (Census); this is slated to increase five-fold to 260 million tonnes per year by 2047 (TERI). Under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), 80% of the urban population (allowing for a 2% increase year on year) has to be covered for Solid Waste Management (SWM). It is therefore imperative that environmentally-sound, socially, and techno-economically
Friday, 22 May 2015
03:00 PM
Niti Aayog – CPR 1st Open Seminar on “Open Defecation Free (ODF) Communities: A key step towards Swachh Bharat"
It may be argued that India’s open defecation figures (both rural and urban) were the key drivers for the creation of a national-level mission on sanitation. To counter this, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) proposes to construct individual household latrines, and convert insanitary (including pit latrines) into sanitary latrines. For this, SBA offers a central government incentive of Rs. 12,000/- per targeted