The project is co-funded by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research ( NWO) and the Indian Government Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Cooperation India – the Netherlands programme. Next to developing a novel framework to assess water sensitive governance capacities, we apply an adapted Transition Management approach to co-create pathways for strengthening such capacities together with local stakeholders in the Indian case study cities.
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It requires to proactively adapt to and cope with multiple uncertainties and shocks in the short- and long-term, to take interrelations and dynamics across the full water cycle as well as other socio-economic and ecological conditions into account, and to ensure inclusive and innovative decision-making. Shifting to and maintaining water sensitive urban systems places multiple new demands on governance. When you say something is covered by water, you are focussing on the fact that the water has found its way to a particular place. The framework will be developed by synergistically connecting four realms – governance, built and natural environment, technology and infrastructure design and societal behaviours – for the delivery of transformative change.ĭRIFT leads Work Package 4 that will develop and apply a conceptual and methodological framework for co-evaluating and co-developing capacities for water sensitive governance in cities. To facilitate long-term sustainability and resilience of urban water systems, the programme will co-create and mainstream an integrative, fit-for-purpose and adaptive water sensitive design framework in close collaboration with stakeholders in three Indian cities. Water4Change embraces water as a basic necessity for life that is both an agent and catalyst of positive transformative changes that are needed to pro-actively deal with and respond to these challenges.
India is a country which is rapidly growing into urban agglomerations showing infrastructure deficits and adaptation gaps in relation to current and future climatic, societal and economic change.
The Water4Change research programme addresses the complex challenges to urban water systems faced by fast-growing cities in India.
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