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Scale Up: Scaling up experiential learning tools for sustainable water governance in India project funded by IFPRI-BMZ

  • Coordinator: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI
  • Partners: IFPRI, ICRISAT, Foundation for Ecological Security, MANAGE, Arizona State University, MLU
  • Researchers: Ilkhom Soliev
  • Duration: 2020 - 2023

Keywords: groundwater, experiential learning, behavioral games, institutional change


About the project

The project aims to enhance sustainable water management at scale by improving the capacities of 1,500 rural communities covering 105,000 households directly and 2,000 communities covering 140,000 indirectly in six Indian states to manage water more sustainably. This will be achieved through experiential learning from collective action games, structured community debriefings, and participatory water planning tools that contribute to greater awareness and improved governance, inducing  behavioural change toward more sustainable water management.

Related publication:

  • Falk, T., Zhang, W., Meinzen-Dick, R., Bartles, L., Sanil, R., Priyadarshini, P., Soliev, I. (2023). Games for experiential learning: Triggering collective changes in commons management. Ecology and Society 28(1): 30, doi/URL    .

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