Director | Asia Regional Programme
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Ruchika Shiva is the Acting Director of the IRC's South Asia Regional Programme. In her present role she has been actively involved in building IRC’s programme in the Asia region. She has been contributing to and leading programmes and assignments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India and Nepal with bilateral, multilaterals and other development organisations.
Ruchika has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi (India). Ruchika has over 19 years of experience in the development sector, with over 10 years focussed on water and sanitation. Prior to this, she worked with Plan International and other implementing organisations on issues related to women and child rights.
Ruchika is interested in strengthening institutions at administrative levels to ensure improved services in communities, with a focus on households from marginalised communities.
This book documents the successful use of information and communication technology (ICT) in rural development. Read more...
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This book analyzes the legal, regulatory, economic and institutional issues that are key to smoothing the transition to privatized infrastructure. Read more...
This report focuses on urban drinking water and sanitation in Zimbabwe. Studies were undertaken in two towns, Bulawayo and Kariba, and in the central... Read more...
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A 1995 Pacific Institute report, California Water 2020: A Sustainable Vision, offered compelling support for the argument that alternative approaches... Read more...
In 1992, the Government of Mexico initiated a new national water law which decentralised water resources management and allowed the market transfer... Read more...
This study examines developments in Sri Lanka's urban water supply sector and what these experiences imply in general for government's role in water... Read more...
