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Water4Change

This research programme addresses the complex challenges to urban water systems faced by fast-growing cities in India.

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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.

Duration of the project
Water4Change runs from 2019-2024.

Funding
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.

Partners
Go to the Water4Change website for a full overview.

Our role in the project

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.

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.