Building resilience to climate change: MGNREGS and drought in Jharkhand

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Building resilience to climate change: MGNREGS and drought in Jharkhand [1]

This paper is one in a series of briefings that analyse how the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) builds rural households’ resilience to different climate shocks. This paper examines how MGNREGS is helping households in West Singhbhum District, Jharkhand, India, build resilience to drought. The goal of the series is to identify options for Indian policymakers to integrate climate risk management into MGNREGS. More broadly, the findings also provide evidence for global policymakers on how to mainstream climate risk management into social protection programmes, or converge and layer social protection and climate risk management instruments to address poverty in the context of climate change.

Publication Date:

01/11/2017

Author(s): Dave Steinbach [2], Nanki Kaur [3], Celie Manuel [4], Sushil Saigal [5], Arun Agrawal [6], Anand Panjiyar [7], Aloke Barnwal [8]

Source: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) [9]

Tags:

Climate Change [10], Droughts [11], Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) [12], Jharkhand [13], Ecosystems [14], Economy [15], Climate Impacts [16]

Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/building-resilience-climate-change-mgnregs-and-drought-jharkhand

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/nanki-kaur
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/celie-manuel
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sushil-saigal
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/arun-agrawal
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/anand-panjiyar
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/aloke-barnwal
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-institute-environment-and-development-iied
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[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/droughts
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme-nregs
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jharkhand
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystems
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economy
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts