Wildlife Research and Conservation Society

Mr. Joy has a M.S degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He is one of the founding members of Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune, India and is presently a Senior Fellow with SOPPECOM (www.soppecom.org). Mr. Joy has been an activist-researcher for more than 25 years and for eight years he was a full time activist with MuktiSangharsh Movement in South Maharashtra. He has a special interest in people's institutions for natural resource management both at the grassroots and policy levels. Mr. Joy’s other areas of interests include drought and drought proofing, participatory irrigation management, river basin management and multi-stakeholder processes, watershed based development, biodiversity, water conflicts and people’s movements. He has worked with Bharat GyanVigyanSamithi (BGVS), New Delhi in its watershed development and resource literacy programme. Mr. Joy was a Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED), Bangalore (now part of ATREE) for a year and was a Fulbright Fellow with University of California at Berkeley. Presently he coordinates the national level initiative, “Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India (www.waterconflictforum.org; www.conflicts.indiawaterportal.org). Mr. Joy has published extensively especially on water issues.  For his outstanding and commendable work on water conservation, KJ Joy has been awarded the prestigious T.N. Khoshoo memorial award (http://waterethics.org/k-j-joy-awarded-the-t-n-khoshoo-memorial-award-for-2016/ )