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International Learning Workshop on Demand-side Management of Groundwater 30 July - 10 August 2007. Date : 06.08.2007 Time : 09.00 A.M - 09.45 AM Venue : BIRDS Training Center, Muthyalapadu Topic : Social action in establishing HMN Faculty : P. Ravi Kumar and Dr. Mishra . Looking Behind.
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International Learning Workshop on Demand-side Management of Groundwater 30 July - 10 August 2007 Date : 06.08.2007Time : 09.00 A.M - 09.45 AMVenue : BIRDS Training Center, MuthyalapaduTopic : Social action in establishing HMNFaculty : P. Ravi Kumar and Dr. Mishra
Looking Behind Revisit the earlier session–Establishment HMN • What were the key elements ? • What were the important process?
The concept • Social action – What is this ? • Why do we need it ?
The Indian Social Realities • Hierarchical social order • Top down frame of mind • Science, Technology and knowledge ‘A higher order engagement ‘ • No way – Not for the poor and Marginalized
The Indian development trajectory • Maintain the status Quo • The pedagogy of exploitation ! • The new vocabulary of the elite –subsides • The institutions san inclusion • Isolation and indifference • Poor at the fringe
APFAMGS - PHM • A paradigms shift • They can’t do to they can do it better • The bottom up • Demand driven • Knowledge based
Pre-requisites • Appropriate institutional structure • Improved knowledge to stakeholders • Access to critical information • Decentralized planning • Stakeholders participation
Social action for PHM • Reverse the stereotypes ‘they can’t do to they can do’ • It is not through sloganeering • It can not be through externally developed IEC- “Expert develop –poor have to use” • It can not be through film shows either
Social Action for PHM-RealizedEnhanced for PHM • Social Action for PHM – Ownership • This has helped in appreciating the technology • Uncontested freedom for application-Equity and justice aspects • Expanding innovation • Sustainable knowledge base • The cycle continues
Impact • Effective PHM • Evolving linkages • Panchayat • Government • CBOs • Local innovation • Rehabilitation of water bodies • Recharge • Policy support • Policy integration (world bank )
Social action for PHM Network • A well designed Socio – technical intervention • Self evolving and process based • Demand based and bottom - up