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Dr. Smita Mishra Panda is educated in Delhi University and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok. Prior to joining CUTM, she was Professor at the HDF School of Management, Bhubaneswar, Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and Researcher at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Japan, and AIT, Bangkok. Dr. Smita has been a visiting faculty to Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, The Monash Asia Institute of Monash University, Melbourne (Australia) and The School of Built Environment and Planning, Curtin University, Perth (Australia). Her areas of research and consulting interests include gender issues in development, natural resource management, water, forests and livelihoods, marginalised communities, local governance, rural development and development management. She has done research projects with both national and international organisations such as UNIDO, UNICEF, UNDP, Norwegian Research Council, World Bank, European Commission, Care-India, DFID among others. Dr. Smita has travelled and published widely. |
- Gender and Development
- Natural Resource Management
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Rural Development
- Governance
- Rural/Tribal Livelihoods
- Gender Issues in Development
- Indian Society and Culture
- Natural Resource Management
- Regional Planning
- Development Paradigms
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Rural Livelihoods
- Governance
- Environment
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Gender
- Development
- Natural Resource Management
- Livelihoods
- Marginalized Communities
Research Fields
My research focused broadly on the areas of gender and development, natural resource management, rural development, marginalised communities, and local governance.
Research and Consultancy Projects (Selected)
1. GAP
2. DFID
3. UNIDO
4. CARE - India
5. World Bank
1. Assessing factors affecting Scaling up of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India and Identifying Strategies for Enhancing Adoption, funded by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (Feb-May 2013)
2. Mobile Livelihoods and Gendered Citizenship: Countergeographies of Indigenous People in India, China and Laos, supported by the Norweigian Research Council (2013)
3. Transformation and Friction in Globalising India - Environmental Insecurity and Social Friction: Rural Links in Odisha, funded by Norwegian Research Council (2012)
4. Revisiting Gender in Development: Complex Inequalities in a Changing Asia - Tribal Womens Activism in Odisha, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2015)
5. Declining Sex Ratio in Odisha: Issues, Challenges and Prospects ( completed in Dec 2011), funded by the UNICEF, India.
6. Mainstreaming Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Godavari Estuary of Andhra Pradesh (completed October 2010), funded by UNDP, India.
7. Study of Paharia Community and their Struggle for Tribal Status in Odisha (completed in May 2008), funded by the UNDP, India.
8. Strategic Financing Possibilities of Water Sector Funding in South Asia (India Study), (Completed in Feb 2008), funded by ICCO & Kerke in Actie (The Netherlands).
9. Womens Political Participation and Decentralised Governance (in collaboration with the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand), (completed in Nov 2007), funded by Ryukoku University, Japan.
10. Crossing Boundaries: Regional Capacity Building in IWRM, Gender and Water (South Asia), (completed in 2006), funded by the Royal Netherlands Government.
11. Sustainable Settlements in Peri-Urban Areas with Special Reference to Natural Resource Management (Forests, Land, Water, Energy), (completed in 2006), funded by the European Commission
12. Decentralised Planning in Kerala: Issues and Areas of Action for the Future (completed in October 2002), funded the Royal Netherlands Government.
Recent Publications (International Journals)
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Academic Honors & Awards
"(a) Books
1. Smita Mishra Panda (Ed) Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, (Sage Publications. Los Angeles/New Delhi, 2008).
2. Ragnhild Lund, Kyoko Kusakabe, Smita Mishra Panda and Wang Yunxian (Eds) Gender, Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations: Comparing Indigenous People in China, India and Laos, Routledge, London (2013).
(b) Papers in Refereed Journals
1. Lund, R; K. Kusakabe, Smita Mishra Panda, Yunxian Wang (2016), Building Bridges Across Transnational Boundaries: Collaboration and Friendship in Research, Emotion, Space and Society, 20, pp 18-24, Elsevier.
2. Lund, R; Smita Mishra Panda and Manju Dhal (2015), “Narrating Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Research Collaboration – researcher-gatekeeper-dialogueâ€Â, Qualitative Research (Special Issue: Feminist Participatory Methodologies), pp 1-13.
3. Kusakabe, K.; Lund, R.; Smita Mishra Panda.; W. Yunxian (2015), Resettlement in Lao PDR: Mobility, Resistance and Gendered Impacts, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Routledge.
4. Panda, H.,Smita Mishra Panda and Lund, R. (2013), Environmental Insecurity and Social Friction in Rural Odisha, International Journal of Rural Management, 9 (1): 17-45, Sage.
5. Panda, Smita Mishra.; Lund, R.; Kusakabe, K.; Wang, Y. (2013). Gender, Mobility and Citizenship Rights among Tribals of Khurda and Sundargarh, Odisha. Gender Technology and Development, 17(2), 105-129, Sage.
6. Wang, Y.; Kusakabe, K.; Lund, R.; Smita Mishra Panda. & Qun, Z. (2013). Mobile livelihoods among ethnic minorities in China: insights from Yunnan. Norwegian Journal of Geography.
7. Lund, Ragnhild and Smita Mishra Panda (2011), New Activism for Political Recognition:Creation and Expansion of Spaces by Tribal Women in Odisha (India), Vol.15, No.1 Gender,Technology and Development, 2011, pp 75-99. Sage.
8. Panda, Smita Mishra (2007), Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Critical View,Gender, Technology and Development, 11 (3), 321-328, Sage Publications.
9. Panda, Smita Mishra (2002) Critical View of Development Strategies for Tribals and Natural Resources: Illustrations from Orissa, Bharatiya Samajik Chintan (A Quarterly Journal of Social Sciences), Vol 1, No.2, pp 41-58.
10. Panda, Smita Mishra (2002) People's Initiative: Kutchch Nav Nirman Abhiyan: An Evolving Network of NGOs in Gujarat, India, Gender Technology and Development, 6(2), pp 313-317. Sage.
11. Panda, Smita Mishra (2000) Women’s Empowerment through NGO Interventions: A Framework for Assessment, Social Change, Vol.30, Nos 3&4, Sept-Dec 2000.
12. Panda, Smita Mishra (2000) Gender Sensitive Forestry Interventions and Potential for Empowering Women: Illustration of a Framework, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, July-Sept (Conference Number).
13. Lund, Ragnhild and Smita Mishra Panda (2000) The Asian Financial Crisis, Women’s Work and Forced Migration, Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol.54, No.3.
14. Panda, Smita Mishra (1999) Towards a Sustainable Natural Resources Management of Tribal Communities: Findings from a Study of Swidden and Wetland Cultivation in Remote Hill Regions of Eastern India, Environmental Management, 23(2), February, pp. 205-216.
15. Panda, Smita Mishra and Lund Ragnhild (1998) Gender-Sensitive Planning in Asia: Its Status and Some Directions, in Regional Development Dialogue, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan, Vol.19, No.1, Spring.
16. Panda, Smita Mishra and Dale, Reidar (1996) A Model for Analysing Gender Relations in Two Tribal Communities in Orissa, India, in the Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development, Centre for Integrated Rural Development in Asia and Pacific, No.1, Vol.VI, pp 23-46, 1996.
17. Panda, Smita Mishra and Routray Jayant, Role of Market Towns in the Delhi Metropolitan Region: A Case Study of Palwal 'Mandi', Haryana, India, in Comparative Study on Retail Trade Tradition and Innovation, Asian Profile, Vol..23, No.4, pp 329-348, August 1995, Hongkong.
18. Panda, Smita Mishra and Lund Ragnhild (1994) The Role of Gender in the Quest of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Norwegian Journal of Geography, 48, pp 113-122, Norway.
19. Panda, Smita Mishra (1994) Women's Indigenous Knowledge of Forest Management in Orissa, India, in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, Vol.2, No.3, pp 1-5, December 1994 (special issue), The Netherlands.
20. Panda, Smita Mishra (1993) Women and Forests in India, in Development, Journal of the Society for International Development, 1993, No.4, pp 70-73, Italy.
(c) Book Chapters
1. Panda, Smita Mishra (2015) “ Neo-liberalist Policies and Cultural Rights of Tribals: Mismatched Domains in Odishaâ€Â in Chandrabhanu Pattanayak (Ed), Repositioning Folklore and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Centurion University, pp 109-121.
2. Panda, Smita Mishra (2015) “Women's Collective Action and Sustainable Water Management: SEWA's Water Campaign in Gujaratâ€Â in Subhadra M. Channa and Marilyn Porter (Eds), Gender, Livelihood and Environment: How Women Manage Resources, Orient Blackswan: New Delhi, pp141-165.
3. Lund, Ragnhild and Smita Mishra Panda (2015), “Struggling Bodies and Spaces of Resistance - Adivasi Women Activists in Odisha, Indiaâ€Â in R. Lund, P. Doneys and B.P. Resurreccion (Eds), Gendered Entanglements: Re-visiting gender in a rapidly changing Asia, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press: Copenhagen, pp 147-176.
4. Panda, Smita Mishra (2015), “Water Related Conflicts and Gender Equity: Beyond Rhetoricâ€Â in N. Shanta Mohan and Sailen Routray (Eds), Sharing Blue Gold: Locating Water Conflicts in India, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore (India), pp 199-214.
5. Panda, Smita Mishra (2014). ""Exploring Mobile Livelihoods among Tribal Communities in Odisha: Gendered Insights and Outcomes"", pp 93-117, in Ranghild Lund, Kyoko Kusakabe, Smita Mishra Panda, Wang Yunxian (Eds), Gender, Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations: Comparing Indigenous People in China, India and Laos, Routledge, London.
6. Panda, Smita Mishra (2014). “Right to Rights: Adivasi Women in the Context of Not-So-Silent Revolution in Odisha, Indiaâ€Â, pp 191-206, in C. Brun, P. Blakie & M. Jones (Eds), Unravelling Marginalisation, Voicing Change, Alternative Visions and Paths of Development. Ashgate Publishing Ltd: England (UK).
7. Panda, Smita Mishra and Sannabhadti, R.( 2012). “Improving Processes of Natural Resource Management at the Grassroots: The Case of Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)â€Â, pp 522-525, in Engendering Integrated Water Management in South Asia: Policy, Practice and Institutions, Edited by M. Zwarteveen, S. Ahmed and S.R. Gautam, Zubaan Publications, New Delhi.
8. Panda, Smita Mishra (2009) “Negotiation Processes in Institutionalising Grassroots Level Water Governance: Case of Self Employed Women's Association, Gujarat, Indiaâ€Â NEGOTIATE Toolkit: Case Studies. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
9. Panda, Smita Mishra (2007) 'â€ÂMainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Critical Viewâ€Â, in Water for Livelihoods: Gender Perspective, Women and Water Network and CapNet, 2007.
10. Panda, Smita Mishra (2004) “Role of Women's Organisations in Revitalizing Communities: Case of Gujarat Earthquakeâ€Â, pp 149-161, in The Role of Volunteering and the Nonprofit Sector in Building Stronger Communities, TRANSART, Tokyo.
11. Panda, Smita Mishra (2001) ""Rural Delhi around 2001"" in Lamba, P.S and Solanki, S.S (Eds) Science, Technology and Rural Development, Anmol Publications, New Delhi.
(d) Working Papers, Monographs and Conference Proceedings (Selected)
1. Panda, Smita Mishra (2011) ""Current Gender Issues in Forest Management: Insights from Odisha"" in Proceedings of the Odisha Environment Congress (Forest Resources of Odisha), Dec 2011, Organised by the Human Development Foundation and Centre for Environment and Development, Bhubaneswar.
2. Panda, Smita Mishra (2010) ""Gender, Water and Culture: Interweaving Connections and Development Outcomes"" in Proceedings of the Odisha Environment Congress (Water Resources of Odisha: Reflections for the 21st Century), Dec 2010, Organised by the Human Development Foundation and Centre for Environment and Development, Bhubaneswar.
3. Kusakabe, K, Panda, Smita Mishra and Chansopheap Ouk (2008) 'Women, Political Parties and Decentralised Governments: Case Studies of Women Leaders in India and Cambodia', LORC Working Paper, Local Human Resources and Public Policy Development System Open Research Centre, Ryukoku University, Japan.
4. Panda, Smita Mishra (2007) 'Negotiation Processes in Institutionalising Grassroots Level Water Governance: Case of Self Employed Women's Association, Gujarat, India', in Workshop Proceedings by the Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2007.
5. Panda, Smita Mishra (2006) 'Women's Collective Action and Sustainable Water Management: Case of SEWA's Water Campaign in Gujarat, India', International Food and Policy Research Institute, Washington, Working Paper Series # 61.
6. Panda, Smita Mishra (2004) 'Privatisation of Water: Towards an Understanding of Gender Dimensions', IRMA Working Paper # 185, Anand, Gujarat.
7. Panda, Smita Mishra and Lund, Ragnhild (2003) , 'Environmental Hazards, Women's Work and Health in Rural Kutch, Gujarat, India, IRMA Working Paper #177, Anand, Gujarat.
8. Panda, Smita Mishra and Choudhary Kameshswar (2002) 'Abhiyan's Setu Approach to Partnership in Rehabilitation: Case of Gujarat Earthquake', IRMA Working Paper, #167, Anand, Gujarat.
9. Panda, Smita Mishra (2001) 'A Framework for Assessing Gender Sensitivity in Forest Management Policy and Practices', IRMA Working Paper, 158, Anand, Gujarat.
10. Panda, Smita Mishra (2000) 'Women's Empowerment through NGO Interventions: A Framework for Assessment', IRMA Working Paper No. 145, Anand, Gujarat.
11. Panda, Smita Mishra (1999) 'Forest Degradation, Changing Livelihoods and Gender Relations among the Juang and Saora Tribal Communities in Orissa, India', IRMA Working Paper No.129, Anand, Gujarat.
12. Panda, Smita Mishra (1995) 'Development Strategies and Experiences with Special Reference to Women and Children in Asia', in Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi.
13. Panda, Smita Mishra (1995 ) 'Gender Relations and Indigenous Knowledge of Juang and Saora in Orissa', in Indigenous Women's Knowledge in Health Care and Water Management, Workshop Report, Gender Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
14. Warren, Cathreine, Rost, Unni and Panda, Smita Mishra (1992) Asian Women in Technological Careers: AIT Women Graduates Tracer Study, Bangkok, AIT, Gender Studies, Monograph 1, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
15. Panda, Smita Mishra and Routray Jayant, Role of Market Towns in the Delhi Metropolitan Region: A Case Study of Palwal 'Mandi', Haryana, India, in Comparative Study on Retail Trade Tradition and Innovation, Proceedings of the IGU Commission on Geography of Commercial Activities, Edited by A. Terasaki and S. Takahashi, Ryuteu Keizai University, Tokyo, Japan, 1994.
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