With an objective of disseminating knowledge and good practices for sustainable water management, the particular case study can be explored on C-GINS on the basis of:

1. Geographic location with the interactive map
2. Scale of intervention
3. Water management objectives

Further you can discover in detail with the help of filters provided. In case you are confused between the meanings of the terms use the glossary, in case you are not, you can move on to search.

Landing page of the aggregator: https://www.cseindia.org/c-gins/home

To find a case study on the platform there are three distinct ways explained as follows:

Explore with Map

• Under this option of searching a case study, an interactive map is provided.
• The user can Zoom in (ctrl+scroll) and drag the locations in the map.
• The filters on the left as per the descriptions provided to help the user to find their specific case studies.
• The location markers are colour coded as per their scale.
  Regional City/ Zonal Neighbourhood Individual

• Upon selecting the desired filters, the location markers on the map will be filtered and all the available case studies under that categorization pop up in form of location markers on the map.
• Upon moving the cursor on a location marker the user can see the tag of the location marker with the name of the case study and location.

• Upon clicking on the tag, the user is redirected to the landing page of the selected case study.

The above main case study webpage is a dynamic webpage with an understandable interface which gives the overall summary of the case study in brief. There is provision for the users to download the detailed case studies easily and can also again additional knowledge about the case by visiting the links provided in the resources. Also the users can contribute by uploading their updated version of the particular case study.

• Upon clicking on the ‘Download pdf’, the PDF will open in a new tab with a download option.

Explore by Scale

• The case studies have been divided as per the scale of the interventions based on their landuse and the impact of the intervention. So if the case study is of an institutional site, it is categorized under the neighbourhood scale. Interventions like the city master plan will come into city/ zonal scale. Similarly if the treatment technology treats wastewater treated close to a residential site, it is categorized under the individual scale.

• There are fourscale categories. Upon moving the cursor on any of these scale, the scale box highlights in yellow colour and the graphic of the particular scale changes

• On clicking upon any of these four scales categories a new web page with case studies opens up. The case studies are shown by the thumbnail view into the gridand filters are provided on the left side pops up to help the users. The users can also use the ‘sort’ tab to sort out the case studies alphabetically, the newest ones and to Indian case studies only.

• Upon clicking on the case study image or ‘read more’, the user is redirected to the landing page of the selected case study.

The above main case study webpage is a dynamic webpage with an understandable interface which gives the overall summary of the case study in brief. There is provision for the users to download the detailed case studies easily and can also again additional knowledge about the case by visiting the links provided in the resources. Also the users can contribute by uploading their updated version of the particular case study.

Explore by Objectives

• Under this option, the case studies are categorised based on their objectives.
• There are total three options for this theme: Water Conservation, Pollution Abatement &Urban Flood Mitigation.

• On clicking upon any of these three objectives category a new web page with case studies opens up. The case studies are shown by the thumbnail view into the grid and filters are provided on the left side pops up to help the users. The users can also use the ‘sort’ tab to sort out the case studies alphabetically, the newest ones and to Indian case studies only.

• Clicking on the name of the case study, the user will be led to the case study page.

The above main case study webpage is a dynamic webpage with an understandable interface which gives the overall summary of the case study in brief. There is provision for the users to download the detailed case studies easily and can also again additional knowledge about the case by visiting the links provided in the resources. Also the users can contribute by uploading their updated version of the particular case study.

What else in store for you to explore?

Resources and Knowledge sharing

To keep the website interesting and interactive the website offers a lot of knowledge sharing and resource materials like, latest documents, manuals and practitioner’s guides, publications, action learning tools, success stories, videos, related blogs for better understanding of green infrastructure/ nature based solutions concepts and the overall resourcefulness of the userto inspire and facilitate the delivery of world-class projects and developments. Also the ‘News and Events’ section of the website keep up the users updated with subject related upcoming training and capacity building programmes, webinars, online courses etc.

• Check out our one stop resource library for CSE's practitioner's guide, latest publications, recommended readings and so much more.

• Explore Videos, concepts, inspiring success stories, Manuals for better understanding of implementation of such systems.

• Stay Updated with all the latest case studies, upcoming online and residential training programmes and latest related blogs.

Participate

C-GINS (Compendium of Green Infrastructure network) is an attempt towards resourcefulness with an aim towards building a community of practice on Green Infrastructure and building a global south centre for Green Infrastructure, advocacy and research. The users can contact us directly to ask a question, provide feedback or to report a problem via “Contact Us” section on the Home page.



To enhance the user’s engagement and participation with the website there’s a special section named ‘Participate’ has been created on the website featuring “Tell us your Story” and “Community of Practitioners FORUM” section.

Tell us your Story

This enables the users to contribute in our website by submitting their stories and additional case studies.

• To guide the users a word file template to prepare a case study has been provided for the users to download. Users can edit the same and upload in the portal.

• The users will get the upload case study window. To upload a case study users will just have to click on the browse tab and select the case study file they want to upload from any device and finally click on ‘save’ the case study. We’ll receive this database in our mail (sww-aaeti@cseindia.org).

Glossary

To help the users understand these concepts better another section of Glossary has been provided in the ‘Resources’ section.