Blogs
Learning and unlearning through role-play
How participatory gender workshops are enabling communities in Nepal
Features
How water can boost environmental health and biodiversity
As a result of IWMI’s work in the realms of e-flow monitoring and aquifer recharge, water management for rivers and aquifers has been strengthened.
Blogs
How social accountability tools can improve water service delivery in Nepal
New IWMI report documents and analyzes the implementation of public hearings and public audits in water service delivery.
Features
Three ways water solutions restore the planet
Many of the threats the world faces involve water, but so do the climate solutions we need to restore our planet.
Blogs
Choosing the collective: Challenging conventional ideas of women’s leadership
Lessons emerging from our research shows that collectives allow bonding and connections through identities other than gender, enabling significant change in entrenched gender-power relations.
Features
Now more than ever we need women and girls in science
CGIAR and IWMI can help to show women that they too have a role to play when it comes to science, research, engineering and technology.
Blogs
Changing the way we collect data during Covid
In order to continue researching on gender and water systems, researchers from IWMI-Nepal engaged with local stakeholders through alternative means of data-collection during COVID-19.
Blogs
Why the young aspire to leave agriculture behind
Often, migration is an adaptation strategy, and a myriad of factors shape whether a person undertakes a journey to a new city in search of opportunity.
Blogs
After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of capacity by capturing value (‘CapVal’) from human waste in ways that support a circular economy.
Press releases
Grantees from South Asia awarded funds to develop innovations enhancing solar irrigation
IWMI and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have awarded five organisations with funds to develop innovations for solar irrigation.
Blogs
A wake-up call
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs.
News
In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
Despite progress, old mindsets continue to challenge gender and social inclusion in community water management.
Press releases
Project makes water from the sun for climate-smart farming
World’s largest user of groundwater for agriculture looks to solar for a more sustainable future.
In the media
DownToEarth.org: Breaking silos in disaster management
An integrated approach involving all concerned stakeholders can help farmers combat the ill-effects of climate-induced natural disasters
Blogs
Recharging Nepal’s mountain springs
A novel approach for determining where and how to intervene.
In the media
Better data can help close the global gender gap
The empowerment of rural women will be crucial to speed up the rate at which we are able to close this gap, Claudia Sadoff argues.
Blogs
Making science and knowledge inclusive for gender equality
Could women be the source of change? Advances in women’s representation in government show much promise.
Blogs
Gender solutions for sustainable water management in Western Nepal
IWMI study calls for investment in the social capital and capabilities of women and marginalized people.
Blogs
You can’t manage what you don’t measure
New information on water resources to guide development in Nepal’s Koshi Basin.
In the media
Navigating the road to socially inclusive hydropower
Asia Times opinion article reports insights from new research in Nepal.
Blogs
Groundwater and sustainable development
New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.
In the media
TheThirdPole.net: The importance of local voices in Nepal’s hydropower projects
A trip along the Karnali river, where a major hydro electric project is planned, showcases how different communities are impacted, and who can negotiate, and who cannot.
In the media
KathmanduPost.Ekantipur.com: Over and under the pond
Another World Water Day passed this week. And around the world, including here in Nepal, water scarcity is a problem that is being increasingly exacerbated due to climate change.
News
UN Chronicle: Coming to grips with water security in the face of climate change
How people in high-risk areas of Africa and Asia can come to grips with water security in the face of climate change.
Blogs
International Women’s Day
Florianne Clement, a social scientist at IWMI, explains how development projects can detect and influence the "critical consciousness" that compels and enables women to rise above the prejudice and discrimination around them.
Blogs
Maps that matter when flooding strikes
Vital support for the emergency disaster response in Northeast India and Nepal.
News
The fragility of rural cooperation
New evidence on the effects of integrating farmers with the global food chain
News
Can a Chinese turtle farmer help us understand the future of Asian migration?
Experts gather in Guangzhou, China, to discuss migration’s effect on home communities
News
Post-monsoon ecological sampling in the Karnali, Mahakali and Mohana river basins of Nepal
Environmental flows (EFs) are a means of understanding the quantity, quality and timing of water flows necessary to maintain a healthy ecosystem.
News
Dynamics of modern day landlordism in the Gangetic Plains
“Control over the means of production by a small landowning aristocracy with political, ideological and economic power over a peasant majority,” is how Karl Marx defined feudalism.
News
A new type of gender training
The activities and discussions within the manual arose from science-based learning theories, with the intent of radically flattening the prevailing top-down communication structures.