Deepa Joshi
Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead Specialist
Deepa has worked primarily in South Asia and also in Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Before Joining IWMI, she worked at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK, and earlier at Wageningen University, Netherlands, and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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Latest news for Deepa Joshi
Women’s safety is a prerequisite for water security
Violence keeps women out of vital water decisions. For stronger water governance and genuine progress on equality, women’s safety must come first ...
What’s in your cup of tea?
Tea plantations must work to increase biodiversity, while giving equal attention to securing just and dignified work conditions for plantation workers ...
Freshwater canal grabs in Bangladesh are harming local communities
IWMI's Paul Schulze and Deepa Joshi on how freshwater canals are being appropriated by leaseholders for personal gain ...
Quick gains or long-term futures?
Context matters for how young people in Ghana view aquaculture. ...
IWMI gender researchers are helping to shape “transformative agendas” in the CGIAR Science Programs
Contributions at the CGIAR Gender Science Exchange emphasized the importance of social and environmental justice ...
Ukama Ustawi: Accelerating inclusive agribusiness in East and Southern Africa
Empowerment and structural change come hand in hand – and with women agri-entrepreneurs at the center! ...
“Revive and Restore Degraded Wetlands”, what will it take?
Wise use calls for balance between maintaining key wetlands functions while not unduly restricting wetlands’ use by millions of often poor people ...
Climate crisis and water stress create a perfect storm for women
We need radical collaborations for gender-just climate solutions ...
Choosing the collective: Challenging conventional ideas of women’s leadership
Lessons emerging from our research shows that collectives allow bonding and connections through identities other than gender, enabling significant change in entrenched gender-power relations ...
Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking gender equality and inclusion
It is imperative that we realize the need for a profound and urgent rethinking on who decides, how and why, what makes for the wise use of wetlands ...
Untangling ‘knots of inequality’
IWMI’s newly launched Gender and Inclusion Strategy tackles how gender intersects with a range of social disparities ...
A wake-up call
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs ...
Latest publications by Deepa Joshi
Journal Article
A multi-dimensional framework for responsible and socially inclusive digital innovation in food, water, and land systems
Springer | September, 2025
Journal Article
Agri-Food System Governance in Bangladesh’s Coastal Regions: Why the Socio-Ecological Systems Approach Needs to Be Politicized
TU Delft OPEN | January 7th, 2025
Brief
Water-salinity dynamics and stakeholder perceptions of a polder in coastal Bangladesh: a socio-hydrological perspective
International Water Management Institute | December 30th, 2024
