Governance and Development

Systems and Design Thinking

Sustainablity planning and climate-change adaptation for urban and rural settlements

Participatory Planning and Local Governance

Gender, Equity, Diversity

Philosophies and Methodologies of Research

Qualitative Research Methodologies

Selected Publications

Misra, Kajri and Neema Kudva. 2024: State, Community and Private Interests in Local Governance: A Review and Research Agenda, Chapter 4 in D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula (eds.), Women Leadership, Decentralised Governance and Development, Springer Nature - India Studies in Business and Economics. DoI 10.1007/978-981-97-3709-3_4; ISBN 978-981-97-3708-6

Misra, Kajri. 2023: Smart Cities in the Global Imaginary: how does Bhubaneswar Smart City measure up? Journal of the Institute of Town Planners of India, Vol 20, No 2, April-June. ISSN : 0537 - 9679

Misra, Kajri. 2022: Enhancing Urban Planning Capacities: Are we Planners missing the forest for the trees?” Journal of the Institute of Town Planners of India, Volume : 19, Number : 2, April - June, ISSN: L0537-9679

Ray, S.S. and Kajri Misra, 2016: Odisha – An Architectural Odyssey (book), Bloomsbury, ISBN - 9789385936036

Misra, Kajri. 2014: From formal-informal to emergent formalisation: Fluidities in the production of urban waterscapes, Water Alternatives 7(1):15, 

Kudva, Neema and Kajri Misra. 2008: Gender Quotas, the Politics of Presence, and the Feminist Project: What does the Indian Experience Tell Us? in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,34,1: 49-73. DOI 10.1086/589239

Misra, Kajri and Neema Kudva. 2008: En(Gendering) Effective Decentralization, The Experience of Women in Panchayati Raj in India” in Victoria Beard, Faranak Miraftab and Christopher Silver (eds.), Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South, London and New York: Routledge. DOI 10.4324/9780203928264

Benjamin, Lehn and Kajri Misra. 2006: Doing Good Work: Implications of Performance Accountability for Practice in the Nonprofit Sector, International Journal of Rural Management, 2006, 2: 147-162. (with Lehn Benjamin) DOI -10.1177/097300520600200202

Misra, Kajri and Debiprasad Mishra, 2002: Gram Panchayats and Participatory Micro-planning: Towards a Process Model”, in S.P.Jain (ed) Emerging Institutions for Decentralised Rural Development, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India.

Misra, Kajri: Whose House Is It? Examining User Participation in Architectural Firms in India, in Special Issue on Participatory Planning and Design, Systems Research and Behavioural Science. DOI 10.1002/sres.460

 

Selected Research Projects

2024: Impact of Smart City Mission on the Capacity of Municipal Bodies, for the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, GoI (under the SAAR Sameeksksa Project)

2024: Sustaining & Scaling Safe, Continuous Water Supply across Odisha: Distilling and Disseminating Lessons from Recent Drink from Tap Successes, with David Meyer (University of Toronto), funded by University of Toronto India Foundation Fund

2021: Assessment of the Structure & Efficacy of Social Protection Programmes for Women through SHGs, for Pradan & UNICEF

2020: Assessment of PPP Programme for Health, Nutrition and Well-being of Adolescents in Tribal Residential Schools of Odisha, for UNFPA and Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI)

2018-19: Review of Rural Sanitation Practices in Odisha, for Rural Sanitation Policy development, UNICEF & Government of Odisha

2017-18: Smart-Wise Sustainable Cities in India (part of the ‘Smart Cities in the Global South’ project) funded by E.P.R.S.C. (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), UK, with Manchester University, UK.

2013-15: Study of the Architectural Heritage of Odisha: Typologies and Trajectories, funded by Vastukar Foundation, Bhubaneswar

2012-13: Water Provision in Bhubaneswar: A study of formal and informal systems, funded by Vastukar Foundation, Bhubaneswar

2011-12: Study of Decentralized Planning for Preparation of Village Planning Manual for local governance and decentralized planning functionaries, for UNDP-GoI (Mimistry of Panchayati Raj), New Delhi

2009-10: Status of Panchayats 2009-2010 - Principal Investigator & Theme Leader for (1) Decentralized Planning and Resources, and (2) Representation and Participation, for Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GoI

2004-08: Democracy and Efficacy in Service Provision: A Comparison of Post-Reform Domestic Water Supply in Three Indian States, Doctoral Thesis research funded by the Sage Felowship and Mario-Einaudi Fellowship of Cornell University and the IWMI-Tata Partnership, Anand.

 

Research Interests

Governance and institutional reform for public service delivery;

Strengthening local governance and planning systems 

Sustainablity planning and climate-change adaptation for urban and rural settlements

Capacity Building for Urban Planning and Development

Issues of gender and other marginalizations;

Migration and urban development - patterns, issues and policy gaps.

 

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