Gender and poverty sensitive community management

This paper is an output of a four-year Participatory Action Research (PAR) project on community water management. The paper is one of the multiple ways in which lessons from this research project are being disseminated and put to use. Following the research phase, the Dutch government is now also financing the dissemination phase. The paper starts by providing a description of the present conditions and the challenges in the global scenario and the relevance of action research. The other part describes how research insights are changing the working methodologies of NEWAH.