The Human Right to Water From Concept to Reality
The discourse on the human right to water presents deliberations on the concept, content and rationale for the right, with little attention to the practical question of translating the right into reality. This book aims to fill this void by focusing on ‘r
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The Human Right to Water From Concept to Reality
The Human Right to Water
Nandita Singh Editor
The Human Right to Water From Concept to Reality
Editor Nandita Singh Department of Sustainable Development Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-40285-7 ISBN 978-3-319-40286-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40286-4
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Dedicated to my parents and parents-in-law
Preface
The origin of this book lies in two of my research projects that were funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), which is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. The research projects focused on the human right to water at the level of local communities. One of them looked at realization of the right from the gender perspective, while the other one considered the right of children. The novelty in both the projects lay in the argument that human right to water cannot be realized by the right holders in local communities just because rosy legal frameworks have been created. Based on an interdisciplinary research hypothesis arguing that implementation of legal frameworks is deeply embedded in the societal context where they are implemented, the projects on the whole concluded that realization of the human right to water by women and children of both genders in local communities depends on the norms prevailing in the context existing on both sides of the implementation process. This coincided with my experiences from an international evaluation of the India Country Programme of WaterAid International. This organization
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