SaciWATERs Drought Preparedness of Vulnerable Sections in Rural Telangana Shreya Chakraborty, Mansi Goyal, Arunima Rao, Sucharita Sen, Suchita Jain, Manoj Jatav South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies Hyderabad, India, 2018 Declaration: This report is based on a research study carried out by South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad, India and funded by UNICEF in rural Telangana region. Developers of this report are grateful to the rural communities, local governance and administration, and the field investigators in Kamareddy district for their regular and conducive support to the research team during field survey. Research team: Shreya Chakraborty, Mansi Goyal, Arunima Rao, Sucharita Sen, Suchita Jain, Manoj Jatav Cover photo: SaciWATERs. Maps: SaciWATERs. First published in January, 2018. Copyrights @ SaciWATERs. Further information about this report – Website: http://www.saciwaters.org/unicef Email:
[email protected] Contact: +91 4027116721 Funded by: Table of Contents Page No. List of Figures a List of Tables b Acronyms c Executive Summary d Salient Observations – Policy Issues from Field Insights h 1 INTRODUCTION 1-6 1.1 RATIONALE OF THE STUDY 1 1.2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 2 1.3 METHODOLOGY 2 1.3.1 Qualitative Document Analysis 2 1.3.2 Field Methods 4 1.3.3 Challenges and Limitations of the Study 6 2 THE DROUGHT POLICY ENVIRONMENT: STRUCTURE AND 7-15 EVOLUTION 2.1 THE DROUGHT POLICY ENVIRONMENT 7 2.2 COHERENCE AND DISSONANCE 9 2.2.1 Conceptualisations of