Smita Mishra Panda
Name : Prof. Smita Mishra Panda
Qualification :Ph. D. (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok)
Area : Gender & Development, Natural Resource Management, Rural-Regional Planning
E-mail : smitafem@gmail.com
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Prof. Smita was a former faculty of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). She has over 20 years of experience in research and teaching in the areas of gender and development issues, natural resource management and rural-regional planning.She has worked as a researcher at the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand and also with the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan. Prof. Smita has been a guest faculty with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim). She has published extensively in professional journals, both in India and abroad. Her current areas of interest are gender and governance, gender and water, role of NGOs in rural development and peri-urban natural resource and livelihood institutional concerns. She has done several consultancy projects in these areas as well. She has recently edited a book ‘Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society’ Sage Publications, 2008. Prof. Smita has participated in several seminars, conferences within the country and internationally. She is also the CapNet India (Capacity Building and Networking Integrated Water Resources Management) coordinator.
Research and Publication
Book
(c) Edited Book Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, ( SAGE PUBLICATIONS. New Delhi, 2008).
Papers in Journals and Proceedings
1. 'Negotiation Processes in Institutionalising Grassroots Level Water Governance: Case of Self Employed Women's Association, Gujarat, India', in International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), NEGOTIATE Toolkit: Case Studies, 2009.
2. Women, Political Parties and Decentralised Governments: Case Studies of Women Leaders in India and Cambodia, LORC Working Paper, Local Human Resources and Public Policy Development System Open Research Centre, Ryukoku University, Japan, 2008 (co-authored with Kyoko Kusakabe and Ouk Chansopheap).
3. Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Critical View, Gender, Technology and Development, 11 (3), 321-328, Sage, 2007.
4. Negotiation Processes in Institutionalising Grassroots Level Water Governance: Case of Self Employed Women’s Association, Gujarat, India, in Workshop Proceedings by the Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2007.
5. Women’s Collective Action and Sustainable Water Management: Case of SEWA’s Water Campaign in Gujarat, India, IFPRI Working Paper Series # 61, 2006.
6. Privatisation of Water: Towards an Understanding of Gender Dimensions, IRMA Working Paper # 185, Anand, Gujarat, August 2004.
7. Role of Women’s Organisations in Revitalising Communities: Case of Gujarat Earthquake, pp 149-161, in Conference Proceedings ‘The Role of Volunteering and the Nonprofit Sector in Building Stronger Communities’, TRANSART, Tokyo, March.
8. Environmental Hazards, Women’s Work and Health in Rural Kutch, Gujarat, India IRMA Working Paper #177, Anand, Gujarat, March 2003 (co-authored with Ragnhild Lund)
9. Critical View of Development Strategies for Tribals and Natural Resources: Illustrations from Orissa, Bharatiya Samajik Chintan (A Quarterly Journal of Social Sciences), Vol 1, No.2, July 2002 pp 41-58.
10. People’s Initiative: Kutchch Nav Nirman Abhiyan: An Evolving Network of NGOs in Gujarat, India, Gender Technology and Development, 6(2), 2002, pp 313-317.
11. Abhiyan’s Setu Approach to Partnership in Rehabilitation: Case of Gujarat Earthquake, IRMA Working Paper, 167, Anand, Gujarat, March 2002 (co-authored with Kameshwar Choudhary).
12. A Framework for Assessing Gender Sensitivity in Forest Management Policy and Practices, IRMA Working Paper, 158, Anand, Gujarat, March 2001.
13. Women’s Empowerment through NGO Interventions: A Framework for Assessment, Social Change, Vol.30, Nos 3&4, Sept-Dec 2000.
14. Gender Sensitive Forestry Interventions and Potential for Empowering Women: Illustration of a Framework, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, July-Sept 2000 (Conference Number).
15. The Asian Financial Crisis, Women’s Work and Forced Migration, Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol.54, No.3, Sept 2000 (co-authored with Ragnhild Lund).
16. Women’s Empowerment through NGO Interventions: A Framework for Assessment, IRMA Working Paper No. 145, Anand, Gujarat, March 2000.
17. Forest Degradation, Changing Livelihoods and Gender Relations among the Juang and Saora Tribal Communities in Orissa, India, IRMA Working Paper No. 129, Anand, Gujarat, June 1999.
18. Towards a Sustainable Natural Resources Management of Tribal Communities: Findings from a Study of Swidden and Wetland Cultivation in Remote Hill Regions of Eastern India, Environmental Management, 23(2), February, pp. 205-216, 1999.
19. Gender-Sensitive Planning in Asia: Its Status and Some Directions, in Regional Development Dialogue, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan, Vol.19, No.1, Spring 1998 (co-authored with Ragnhild Lund).
20. A Model for Analysing Gender Relations in Two Tribal Communities in Orissa, India, in the Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development, Centre for Integrated Rural Development in Asia and Pacific, No.1, Vol.VI, pp 23-46, 1996, Bangladesh (co-authored with Reidar Dale).
21. Role of Market Towns in the Delhi Metropolitan Region: A Case Study of Palwal ‘Mandi’, Haryana, India, in Comparative Study on Retail Trade Tradition and Innovation, Proceedings of the IGU Commission on Geography of Commercial Activities, Edited by A. Terasaki and S. Takahashi, Ryuteu Keizai University, Tokyo, Japan, 1994 and also published in Asian Profile, Vol..23, No.4, pp 329-348, August 1995, Hongkong (co-authored with Jayant Routray).
22. Development Strategies and Experiences with Special Reference to Women and Children in Asia, in Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, July 1995, New Delhi.
23. The Role of Gender in the Quest of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Norwegian Journal of Geography, 48 (1994), pp 113-122, Norway (co-authored with Ragnhild Lund).
24. Gender Relations and Indigenous Knowledge of Juang and Saora in Orissa, in Indigenous Women’s Knowledge in Health Care and Water Management, Workshop Report, Gender Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, 1995.
25. Women’s Indigenous Knowledge of Forest Management in Orissa, India, in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, Vol.2, No.3, pp 1-5, December 1994 (special issue), The Netherlands.
24. Women and Forests in India, in Development, Journal of the Society for International Development, 1993, No.4, pp 70-73, Italy.
26. Asian Women in Technological Careers: AIT Women Graduates Tracer Study, Bangkok, AIT, Gender Studies, Monograph 1, Asian Institute of Technology, 1992 (co-authored with Catherine Warren and Unni Rost).
27. Rural Delhi around 2001 in a Book Science, Technology and Rural Development, edited by P.S. Lamba & S.S. Solanki, Anmol Publications, New Delhi, 1989.
