PROJECTS:
ONGOING
# Towards Brown Gold: Re-imagining off grid sanitation in rapidly urbanising areas in Asia and Africa
Funded through the GCRF Off-Grid Cities and Sustainable Energy call, “Towards Brown Gold” seeks to address the challenges of marginality, sanitation and wastewater management in five growing towns in Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Nepal.
https://medium.com/@TowardsBrownGold
# Anticipating Futures: Forecasting and Climate Preparedness for Co-located Hazards in India (ANTICIPATE)
ANTICIPATE examines how different actors forecast and prepare for co-located hazards under conditions of climatic uncertainty and whether and how these practices can be integrated into building preparedness. The project aims to contribute to cultural understandings of forecasting by exploring the scientific community’s cultures and practices alongside more place-based forecasting traditions.
# PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a research programme that aims to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. PASTRES is funded by an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant starting in 2018, and running for five years. The project is hosted by the ESRC STEPS Centre at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and the European University Institute in Florence.
https://seeingpastoralism.org/
# Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Trans-disciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY). Belmont Forum funded TAPESTRY focuses on how transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments through hybrid alliances between resource dependent communities, civil society organizations (CSOs), scientists and occasionally state agencies. The project is a part of a multi-country (United Kingdom, Norway, Japan, Bangladesh and India) consortium funded by Belmont Forum. The project is being implemented in one of the climate change hotspot-the India & Bangladesh Sundarbans, Mumbai, Kutch.
https://steps-centre.org/project/tapestry/
# Vice Chair, Asia Thematic Working Group, Health Systems Global – Climate Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems
https://healthsystemsglobal.org/thematic-groups/climate-resilient-and-sustainable-health-systems/
EARLIER PROJECTS:
# Project: Climate Change, Uncertainty and Social Transformation: The study builds on growing social science and qualitative approaches to understand the nature, discourses, impacts and responses to climate change concerning a community’s health, livelihood and shelter. Norwegian Research Council funds the project and has study sites in India-Kutch in Gujarat, Mumbai and Sundarbans in West Bengal.
https://www.ids.ac.uk/projects/climate-change-uncertainty-and-transformation/
# Future Health Systems: Future Health Systems (FHS) is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor. The project funded by Department of International Development, UK, led by Johns Hopkins, Baltimore is a partnership of leading research institutes from across the globe working in a variety of contexts to build resilient health systems for the future in Bangladesh, Uganda, China, India, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ethiopia
http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/india
# Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Trans-regional Collaborative Research Grant – “Environmental Refugees: Climate, Health and Livelihood in the India Ocean World” The study programme seeks to advance the under researched field of climate change, livelihood, migration and health issues in the India Ocean littoral by mapping the subjective experiences of migrant families and highlighting the wealth of community coping strategies that exists within supposedly vulnerable communities focusing on case studies in India, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Mozambique.
# Uncertainty from Below. To bridge the gap in the perceptions of those who theorize about climate change and uncertainty from ‘above’, those who experience it from ‘below’, as well as those in the ‘middle’ who act as intermediaries between the two. The project was funded by STEPS centre, Institute of Development studies, University of Sussex under the aegis of Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
https://steps-centre.org/project/uncertainty/
Short term assignments (Documentaries, capacity building on visual methods, evaluation):
Centre for World Environment History, Sussex University: Documentary on Science, Humanism and the making of Modern India; Child in Need Institute (CINI) – Process documentation of Strengthening Child Friendly Communities through Demonstrative Action & Building Evidences; UNICEF – Human centred stories for UNICEF global website; documentation of Child Rights Convention (Jharkhand); process documentation of POCSO capacity building; Best practices documentation – WASH (Tamil Nadu); Best case practices of coping, adaptation and mitigation 2018 kerala floods; Tubaerculosis Health Action & Learning Initiative (THALI) – Global Health Partners (Documentation of World TB Day and case study), THALI-CINI (Rapid assessment including communication of photovoice output; case studies stressing on vulnerable population and community-local polity led innovation); CINI – baseline communications need assessment of Basket of Choices in vulnerable districts of WB; CINI – Process documentation of the Couple Power project and More Than Brides Alliance project; OAK Foundation, UK – Situational analysis of civil society to inform funding strategy; Welthungerhilfe – design and manage business interface of the Green Entrepreneurs with the Industry bodies; Vital Strategies – capacity building of the anti-tobacco advocates on photovoice; oversight of the photovoice process, data analysis and outputs for presentation in the NCTOH 2019; Population Services International – process documentation of the SafeWat initiative in the arsenic prone areas of West Bengal; WBSPCS – Programme evaluation of NGOs engaged in Targeted Intervention programme; SAATHI – Technical documentation of MSM case studies; UPSAPCS – Programme Evaluator, JAT.