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IWMI -Tata Partners' Workshop to present Critical Issues in India's Water Future
  
    Besides presenting over 50 new pieces of research conducted during 2003, the Anand-based IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program will inaugurate a Citizens' Monitoring System for the Narmada Project, the lifeline of Gujarat.

A few years ago, skeptics laughed at the idea that Narmada water will ever reach Saurashtra and Kutch. But Narmada waters are already in Saurashtra and Kutch. A new monitoring system being developed will transparently report quarterly progress on the Narmada project and its far reaching social and economic impact.

    
   
     
Annual Partners' Research Workshop 2003
  
Water, Livelihoods and Environment in India:
Frontline Issues in Water and Land Management and Policy
  
         
    Since its inception in 2000, the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Program organizes an annual workshop in which the policy research carried out by the Program and its partners is presented to a group that includes partners, donors, NGOs and policy makers. The annual workshop serves as a sort of Review, helping us get useful feedback from a critical and discerning audience; but it also acts as a Strategy Workshop, helping us set the agenda for the following year's research program. We have planned our second annual partners' meet during January 27-29, 2003 at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand.    
   
     
Water Policy Research Highlights
and IWMI-Tata Comments
  
         
    IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlights and IWMI-Tata Comments are summaries, syntheses and assessments of work done by IWMI-Tata in colaboration with its partners. As their names suggest, Water Policy Research Highlights are based on specific work carried out under the program, with the aim of disseminating our work to a wider audience. IWMI-Tata Comments, on the other hand, do not restrict themselves to a specific paper or research project but go beyond and sideways to include other relevant work done in the same field outside the IWMI-Tata Program with the purpose of expanding the horizon of research and for bringing the discourse on the topic to the 'next' level.    
   
     
Central India Initiative
 
Quest for Approaches to Sustainable Livelihoods through Land and Water Interventions in the Central Indian Tribal Region
  
         
    Central India Initiative (CInI), a study launched jointly by IWMI-Tata programme, N M Sadguru Water and Development Foundation and PRADAN, plans to document experiences where tribal community has adopted irrigation-based livelihoods. The purpose is to learn what works and what does not and formulate an approach for developing this livelihood in a large tract of central India inhabited by nearly 70% of tribal population of India.    
   
     
 
First Annual Partners' Meet 2002
  
19th - 20th February 2002
 
         
   

The IWMI-Tata India Program organised its First Annual Partners' Meet in February 2002 at the Executive Training and Development Center, Institute of Rural Management, Anand. The meet was attended by representatives of several research/academic institutions and NGOs from all over the country, scientists from IWMI, potential research partners in the coming years and representatives from Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT).

The main objectives of the workshop were: [1] Getting Feedback on our work; [2] Identifying New Areas of Research; [3] Refining the Current Research Outputs; and [4] Streamlining our Research Portfolio. The workshop was phased out into seven technical sessions followed by Panel Discussions on three themes identified as thrust areas for the coming year.