Watershed Organisation Trust
Dr. Marcella D'Souza is the Director of the WOTR Center for Resilience Studies (W-CReS) and former Executive Director of Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR). She is a medical doctor by training and a Takemi Fellow of the Harvard School of Public Health. Marcella has spent 6 years in rural communities in South Andean, Peru working in Community and Public Health. She was the Coordinator for Women’s Promotion in the bilateral Indo-German Watershed Program. As Executive Director, in 2009, she initiated the integrated project on “Climate Change Adaptation in Semi-arid Regions” that is now being implemented across 7 states where WOTR has its operations. Gaps in understanding the local needs in different agro-ecological regions led her to establish the trans-disciplinary applied research unit, W-CreS, to provide evidence-based lessons from practice to policy.
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Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is a globally recognised organisation dedicated to transforming the lives of millions of poor villagers across India through participatory watershed development and ecosystems restoration, climate resilient sustainable agriculture, integrated and efficient water management and climate change adaptation, with a special emphasis on building resilience of vulnerable communities, farmers, and women. WOTR was established in 1993 and is headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India.