IRC Associate
Shiny was Programme Officer for IRC's India Country Programme. She supported programme implementation and led communications for India. She also supported the Bangladesh Country Programme. Her interests lie in working towards gender transformative change and sustainability. Shiny's prior experience has been in research on gender and equity, in informal economy and evaluations, and urban governance.
Two letters in reaction to the article "Making a start with district health libraries" by Materia et al in World Health Forum, vol. 15, no. Read more...
Zimbabwe's water pollution problems, caused by mining, industry, ordinary farming, and agricultural-product processing, have not yet reached the... Read more...
Accepting the necessity for irrigation in areas where there is insufficient rainfall to sustain agricultural production and admitting the negative... Read more...
SIWIL is a pipe lifting device that is called after its developers SIbanda Zanamwe and WILlem Harderwijk. It was designed as a more practical and... Read more...
Monitoring the sustainability of new water supplies often relies on indirect indicators, aiming to show that all preconditions for sustained... Read more...
Article discusses the differences between planned project outcomes and the percieved project benefits at the level of the communities served. The... Read more...
This article provides an overview of funding sources available to small public water systems in the United States in order to comply with the Safe... Read more...
This article attempts to set out the major issues of the new integrated water resource management (WRM) policy for further debate rather than giving... Read more...
This paper describes an attempt by the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso between 1983 and 1990 to mobilize the residents of peri-urban areas... Read more...
A key lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium A.D. Read more...