MoA-GTZ-ICRISAT-MANAGE Project Consortium on Capacity Building for Watershed Management in India Proceedings on Project Launching Workshop 29-30 April 2008 ICRISAT-Patancheru

    Wani, S P and Marimuthu, S and Sreedevi, T K and Singh, R, eds. (2008) MoA-GTZ-ICRISAT-MANAGE Project Consortium on Capacity Building for Watershed Management in India Proceedings on Project Launching Workshop 29-30 April 2008 ICRISAT-Patancheru. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. ISBN 978-92-9066-513-7

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    Abstract

    Watershed approach has been recognized as a growth engine for sustainable development of rain-fed areas in India with the aim to improve the capacities and networking of public institutions involved. Watershed development programs in India are silently revolutionalizing dryland areas. Number of impact assessment studies of watershed projects in India showed that the accrued benefits of watershed projects are not at the desired level and concurrent with the investments. Meta-analysis of 311 case studies and the recent comprehensive assessment of watershed programs showed that 68 per cent of watershed projects performed below average for the economic, efficiency and sustainability parameters. The assessment also identified the capacity building as the weakest link for scaling-up the benefits of watershed programs. The Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and the GTZ have sponsored a project on capacity building for decentralized watershed management in India. The national consortium-led by ICRISAT conducted a project launching workshop to initiate the process of capacity building consortium formation in three pilot states of Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand in India. The participants discussed consortium modalities in pilot states - Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand - and criteria and challenges for selecting nodal agency for the state consortium. The workshop identified support services that would be rendered by state consortium that includes needs assessment, identifying resource persons, demonstrations, networking, and platform for knowledge management. ICRISAT’s consortium approach for technical backstopping and the APRLP’s experience in the area of decentralized capacity building were discussed.

    Item Type: Book
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    Subjects: Others > Watershed Management
    Depositing User: Mr Sanat Kumar Behera
    Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2011 14:03
    Last Modified: 09 Nov 2011 14:03
    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3866
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