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Case Study
Good practices in water security: ideas for praxis

2010

Author(s): Jal Bhagirathi Foundation

A repository on good practices that address the challenge of water scarcity, the publication outlines how a joint project in Rajasthan has resulted in a 140 percent decline in expenditure costs per household.

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This study sought to protect community rights over TK and customary practices related to it. It was undertaken with the Yanadi community of Chittoor and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh and entailed an extensive survey and research to find ways to protect their rich TK, bio-resources and customary laws and practices that are intricately woven together.

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This study provides a preliminary analysis of boarding school policies directed at indigenous peoples globally. Because of the diversity of indigenous peoples and the nation-states in which they are situated, it is impossible to address all the myriad boarding school policies both historically and contemporary.

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This publication presents a collection of 18 indigenous practices which were developed over time in the communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The cases were chosen based on the following criteria: origin of the knowledge, its relative level of adaptation over time, its relationship to local skills and materials, its success in surviving or coping with disasters over time, and its applicability to other societies facing similar situations.

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This study presents specific and actual examples where Indigenous Australians have explored and used intellectual property laws to protect their arts and cultural expressions.

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The study examined the effective protection of folklore so as to derive directions for future work in the field and to assess the relevance of the Model Provisions already drawn up for framing legislation.