Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Over the first three months of 2025, I travelled to Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. In collaboration with Prabhat Education Foundation, we discovered that the link between disability and energy was a bigger blind spot than I had imagined
This blog was originally posted on the Modern Energy Cooking Services website and is available here. By Pramila Silakari, Krishna Keshavani, Katha Bhatt and Dr Amita Bhakta This blog is part of a series which reflect on and explore […]
Our study on access to energy for people with disabilities in Ahmedabad, India, led by Prabhat Education Foundation and Dr. Amita Bhakta for the MECS programme, employed the expressive power of drawing.
In ongoing research for the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme, Prabhat Education Foundation and Dr. Amita Bhakta are using an innovative participatory method called PhotoVoice to delve deeper into the experiences of people with disabilities in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
It was with profound and deep sadness that I learned of the passing of Louisa Gosling, my long-term colleague this morning. Louisa’s influence on the early stages of my career from the days of when I was a PhD student […]
To explore the extent to which ever-expanding cities in low- and middle-income countries could adopt and adapt approaches to managing urban water supply and become sensitive to the impacts of climate change, I paid a visit to Delft and Amsterdam in the Netherlands in the summer of 2023.
I used the session to explore the theme of hiddenness and hidden geographies through my work over the last ten years working in the WASH sector
In this paper we use the example of urban India to highlight the need for water supply in shared toilets for MHM.
By Amita Bhakta In the early part of February 2024, I travelled to Ahmedabad, India, to attend the Global South Academic Conclave on WASH and Climate Linkages, hosted by the Center for Water and Sanitation and the Faculty of […]
This paper is based on previous work I have done for the Modern Energy Cooking Services programme at Loughborough University.