ABSTRACT

Gendered participatory approaches have grown popular as project planners seek ways to incorporate women’s knowledge and labour into natural resource management and development projects. Often these projects seek to build on or change existing gendered relationships to natural resources. For example, the project featured in this chapter is a large-scale drinking water supply scheme in northern India.The village-level activities of the NGO that is facilitating community and women’s participation components are based on extending gendered roles around water to include management, payment and operation of the new drinking water supply.