Director | Asia Regional Programme
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Ruchika Shiva is the Acting Director of the IRC's South Asia Regional Programme. In her present role she has been actively involved in building IRC’s programme in the Asia region. She has been contributing to and leading programmes and assignments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India and Nepal with bilateral, multilaterals and other development organisations.
Ruchika has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi (India). Ruchika has over 19 years of experience in the development sector, with over 10 years focussed on water and sanitation. Prior to this, she worked with Plan International and other implementing organisations on issues related to women and child rights.
Ruchika is interested in strengthening institutions at administrative levels to ensure improved services in communities, with a focus on households from marginalised communities.
Although a large portion of inter-governmental grants is earmarked for drinking water and sanitation, many Indian states are falling short of meeting this target in their actual spending. Read more...
Policy recommendations for the Indian union government and ministries for water, health, education, women and child development, and local government. Read more...
Policy recommendations for the Indian state government of Odisha and its departments for drinking water and local government, health, education, and... Read more...
Strengthening institutions is key to sustainable services Read more...
Recommendations to address the funding challenges of India's flagship rural water and sanitation initiatives. Read more...
Using the Life-Cycle Cost Approach to understand the rural WASH budget. Read more...
Report of an August 2020 webinar with representatives from national, state and local government and civil society. Read more...
How does understanding public finance for WASH help civil society organisations (CSOs) to enhance their work in the community, and are budget related... Read more...
How does understanding public finance for WASH help civil society organisations (CSOs) to enhance their work in the community, and are budget related... Read more...
How can the devolution of planning and budgetary processes help communities raise their issues and plan accordingly. Read more...
A roadmap for tracking and analysing district budgets for water and sanitation programmes in Bihar, India. Read more...
A roadmap for tracking and analysing district budgets for water and sanitation programmes in Odisha, India. Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households and an assessment of cost approximation by the Water... Read more...
This document presents the experiences of the Himmotthan Water Supply and Sanitation initiative in developing community-managed rural water systems... Read more...
This document presents the case of Kathirampatti Village Panchayat (VP) in Erode District, where the Panchayat successfully manages the water supply. Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households and an assessment of cost approximation by the Punjab... Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households by gravity-based piped water supply in Meghalaya. Read more...
This document assesses the community-managed rural water supply programmes in Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran. Read more...
