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Publications

HSF's central search interface for its worldwide stocks of publications is the new online library Esearcha of the Knowledge and Information Database. This archive includes India-related publications in German or English and publications of our collaboration in India in English. You can directly access it through the integrated search function below.

2025

Reshaping India-EU Collaboration for Climate Resilience and Women's Leadership
IERF Discussion Paper

In the evolving landscape of global partnerships, the strategic collaboration between India and the EU offers a timely opportunity to advance women-led development. Both regions are ...
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2025

Building India-EU Resilience on Critical Raw Materials
IERF Policy Brief

This Policy Brief distills key insights from a closed-door roundtable on 'Critical Raw Materials' (CRM) into five policy recommendations. This roundtable, held on 28 March 2025 in New Delhi, ...
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2025

Shifting Scales: From International to Subnational
A comparative analysis of India and Germany's Federal Water Governance

This working paper serves as a useful reference for understanding the River Basin Management (RBM) trajectory of Germany vis-à-vis India through a comparative analysis. The paper further ...
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2025

From Global to Local: Climate Action on Ground
Learnings from Karnataka's State Action Plan on Climate Change

This book is intended as a key resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers alike. It encapsulates the lessons learned, the challenges faced and the success achieved in ...
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2024

Decentralized Governance in India: Issues of Functions, Functionaries, and Finance
NIAS-HSS Brief

The regions governed under the Fifth & Sixth Schedules of the Indian Constitution, often called 'states within the state,' remain marginalized in the larger federal discourse. Local ...
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2024

Ensuring Rights and Representation for Decentralized Governance in India
NIAS-HSS Brief

This brief highlights the limitations of current local governance structures, particularly Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), which often focus more on operational efficiency than on ...
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2023

Strengthening the Role of Women in Policing
Compendium of Institutional Policies, Programs and Initiatives Across the Globe

This compendium puts together a set of institutional policies and strategies drawn from countries around the world with a view to highlight different ways in which police institutions are ...
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2023

Federalism and Local Governance in the Scheduled Areas: The Case of Odisha and Assam
NIAS-HSS Brief

The Areas, covered under the Fifth and Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, are often seen as 'states within the states'. The local governance in the Scheduled Areas of India hardly ...
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2023

Agricultural Drought: Farmers' Perception and Combat Strategies
White Paper

In 2023, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), in partnership with Hanns Seidel Foundation India, developed the White Paper on combating agricultural drought through ...
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2023

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
Handbook

MANUVIKASA, with the support of Hanns Seidel Foundation, has developed a Handbook on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) for the farmers in the Indian state of Karnataka. This ...
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