This paper describes one approach - the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP) - which has explicitly attempted to make participatory watershed development replicable over wide areas.
Title | Scaling up participatory watershed development in India : lessons from the Indo-German watershed development programme |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1997 |
Authors | Farrington, J, Lobo, C |
Secondary Title | Natural resource perspectives / ODI |
Volume | no. 17 |
Pagination | 6 p. : 5 boxes |
Date Published | 1997-02-01 |
Publisher | Overseas Development Institute (ODI) |
Place Published | London, UK |
Keywords | cab97/3, catchment areas, community participation, franchising, government organizations, india maharashtra, indo-german watershed development programme (igwdp) (india), non-governmental organizations, replicability, rural areas, sdiasi, sdipar, sdiwrm, selection criteria, water resources management |
Abstract | This paper describes one approach - the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP) - which has explicitly attempted to make participatory watershed development replicable over wide areas. Achievements It has also generated a technically sound but participatory watershed planning methodology, a coherent transition from capacity building to full-scale implementation within watersheds, and a practical framework for field-level collaboration among NGOs, community-based organisations and government departments. The Programme currently covers 92,000 hectares of private and other land in 20 districts in Maharashtra, involving 50 NGOs working in 74 watersheds. It is set to expand within Maharashtra as new NGOs register themselves some growing from village groups in successful watersheds and to other States through a system of franchising. Implications Cases of participatory micro-watershed management especially those managed by NGOs are becoming abundant. Yet, almost without exception, they are very small in scale and can be expanded only by repeating the same slow, costly, in- depth techniques in successive villages. By contrast, many government-sponsored approaches have expanded rapidly, but often lack the local ownership and group coherence necessary for sustainable management of the common pool components of watersheds. Preconditions
If approaches to micro-watershed rehabilitation are to be participatory and rapidly replicable, then the preconditions for scaling up have to be identified and introduced into the design of projects and programmes. These preconditions include: |
Notes | 3 ref. |
Custom 1 | 205.1, 210, 822 |