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. 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.
To facilitate long-term sustainability and resilience of urban water systems, the programme is co-creating and mainstreaming an integrative, fit-for-purpose and adaptive water sensitive design framework in close collaboration with stakeholders in three Indian cities. The framework is being developed developed by synergistically connecting four realms – governance, built and natural environment, technology and infrastructure design and societal behaviours – for the delivery of transformative change.
DRIFT leads Work Package 4 that is developing and applying a conceptual and methodological framework for co-evaluating and co-developing capacities for water sensitive governance in cities.