Author: Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906006
Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This report draws on a survey and case study evidence from 28 watershed management groups in Haryana to argue that participatory watershed management projects need not necessarily safeguard the interests of poorer rural households.
How pro-poor are participatory watershed management projects?: An Indian case study
Author: Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906006
Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This report draws on a survey and case study evidence from 28 watershed management groups in Haryana to argue that participatory watershed management projects need not necessarily safeguard the interests of poorer rural households.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906006
Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This report draws on a survey and case study evidence from 28 watershed management groups in Haryana to argue that participatory watershed management projects need not necessarily safeguard the interests of poorer rural households.
People, Policy, Participation
Author: Farhad Vania
Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843695391
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843695391
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Participatory Watershed Development
Author: John Farrington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Efforts have long been made in India to improve the management of major watersheds for ecological reasons - such as reducing the siltation of reservoirs. The management of micro-watersheds (of around 500 hectares) is a more recent focus of policy and has both ecology and livelihoods as itsobjectives. Experiments have shown that, in some areas, more than a doubling of resource productivity can be achieved by careful rehablitation. Many watersheds contain both private and common land. It is already clear from a number a efforts led by NGOs that, to be equitable and institutionally sustainable, the rehabilitation of both common and private lands needs action rooted in strong resource user-groups capable of taking decisions ina participatory way and resolving conflict. To build up groups in this way requires both time and skills, both of which have proved elusive in government projects and programmes. The key question addressed in this book is how far the approaches developed by NGOs can be adopted (or adapted) by the public sector and applied on a wide scale,for, without such approaches, neither the ecological nor the livelihood benefits of watershed rehabilitation will be achieved.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Efforts have long been made in India to improve the management of major watersheds for ecological reasons - such as reducing the siltation of reservoirs. The management of micro-watersheds (of around 500 hectares) is a more recent focus of policy and has both ecology and livelihoods as itsobjectives. Experiments have shown that, in some areas, more than a doubling of resource productivity can be achieved by careful rehablitation. Many watersheds contain both private and common land. It is already clear from a number a efforts led by NGOs that, to be equitable and institutionally sustainable, the rehabilitation of both common and private lands needs action rooted in strong resource user-groups capable of taking decisions ina participatory way and resolving conflict. To build up groups in this way requires both time and skills, both of which have proved elusive in government projects and programmes. The key question addressed in this book is how far the approaches developed by NGOs can be adopted (or adapted) by the public sector and applied on a wide scale,for, without such approaches, neither the ecological nor the livelihood benefits of watershed rehabilitation will be achieved.
Participatory Water Management for Poverty Alleviation
Author: Aimee S. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgaon Dhaga (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgaon Dhaga (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Biophysical and institutional factors in watershed management: A comparative analysis of four pilot watershed projects in India’s tribal belt
Author: R. Sakthivadivel
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290905824
Category : Watershed management
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Social aspects / Institutions / Development projects / Watershed management
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290905824
Category : Watershed management
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Social aspects / Institutions / Development projects / Watershed management
Balancing irrigation and hydropower: Case study from Southern Sri Lanka
Author: Molle, François, Jayakody, Priyantha, Ariyaratne, Ranjith, Somatilake, H. S.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906073
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This report analyzes a case from southern Sri Lanka, where the Samanalawewa dam and the Kaltota Irrigation Scheme (KIS) compete for the water of the Walawe river. At the catchment level, it is shown that dam releases are well attuned to the needs of KIS and to the occurrences of natural runoff, and that little of the dam water is "lost" to the river.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906073
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This report analyzes a case from southern Sri Lanka, where the Samanalawewa dam and the Kaltota Irrigation Scheme (KIS) compete for the water of the Walawe river. At the catchment level, it is shown that dam releases are well attuned to the needs of KIS and to the occurrences of natural runoff, and that little of the dam water is "lost" to the river.
Fertile Ground
Author: Fiona Hinchcliffe
Publisher: Impacts of Participatory Water
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The studies present a complex picture of the achievements and continuing challenges faced by conservation professionals and farmers, provide evidence of the importance of local people's involvement in natural resource planning and management, and reveal how difficult it is to scale-up and participatory approaches in large sector-based programmes.
Publisher: Impacts of Participatory Water
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The studies present a complex picture of the achievements and continuing challenges faced by conservation professionals and farmers, provide evidence of the importance of local people's involvement in natural resource planning and management, and reveal how difficult it is to scale-up and participatory approaches in large sector-based programmes.
In the Hands of the People
Author: Anil C. Shah
Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843690276
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843690276
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Watershed Development Projects in India
Author: J. M. Kerr
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896291294
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Green Revolution that transformed irrigated agriculture elsewhere in India had little effect in the rainfed, semi-arid regions. Agricultural productivity remained low, natural resources were degrading, and the people were poor. In the 1980s and 1990s, planners turned to watershed management to develop rainfed agriculture while conserving natural resources. By the late 1990s, India was spending US$500 million a year on watershed development projects. Strategies ranged from the purely technical to those that emphasized social organization. Little systematic analysis exists, however, on the success of the different approaches. This study, based on a survey of 86 villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states, attempts to fill that information gap by evaluating the projects' relative success in raising agricultural productivity, improving natural resource management, and reducing poverty. In looking at the question of what approaches enable a project to succeed, it uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to compare project and nonproject villages before and after the projects were implemented. The authors find that projects involving the villagers in planning and decisionmaking performed better than their technocratic, top-down counterparts, but projects that combined participation with sound technical input performed best of all. All projects faced difficulties in ensuring that poor people shared the benefits of watershed development.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896291294
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Green Revolution that transformed irrigated agriculture elsewhere in India had little effect in the rainfed, semi-arid regions. Agricultural productivity remained low, natural resources were degrading, and the people were poor. In the 1980s and 1990s, planners turned to watershed management to develop rainfed agriculture while conserving natural resources. By the late 1990s, India was spending US$500 million a year on watershed development projects. Strategies ranged from the purely technical to those that emphasized social organization. Little systematic analysis exists, however, on the success of the different approaches. This study, based on a survey of 86 villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states, attempts to fill that information gap by evaluating the projects' relative success in raising agricultural productivity, improving natural resource management, and reducing poverty. In looking at the question of what approaches enable a project to succeed, it uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to compare project and nonproject villages before and after the projects were implemented. The authors find that projects involving the villagers in planning and decisionmaking performed better than their technocratic, top-down counterparts, but projects that combined participation with sound technical input performed best of all. All projects faced difficulties in ensuring that poor people shared the benefits of watershed development.
AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger
Author: Stuart Gillespie
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896297586
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
"The global AIDS epidemic has caused over 25 million deaths since 1981, and there is no end in sight. It is a multidimensional, phased, long-wave crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come. Attempts to defeat the epidemic are conventionally grounded in the three core pillars of AIDS policy: prevention, treatment and care, and mitigation. But there is also an urgent need for a deeper understanding of the integral role that food and nutrition can and should play, and a corresponding urgency to use that understanding to improve responses at all levels.The 18 essays in AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses contribute to such an understanding by examining the impacts of HIV and AIDS on labor markets and wages, household income and consumption dynamics, and the agricultural sector as a whole; by studying the ways in which households respond to prime-age illness, death, and food insecurity; and by exploring the implications of local responses for the roles that national and international actors must play in addressing the AIDS-hunger nexus.This book creates an opportunity for development professionals to build the conceptual links lacking in current multisectoral frameworks, assess impacts and costs, propose indicators and monitoring systems, and design appropriate food- and nutrition-related interventions and policies."
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896297586
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
"The global AIDS epidemic has caused over 25 million deaths since 1981, and there is no end in sight. It is a multidimensional, phased, long-wave crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come. Attempts to defeat the epidemic are conventionally grounded in the three core pillars of AIDS policy: prevention, treatment and care, and mitigation. But there is also an urgent need for a deeper understanding of the integral role that food and nutrition can and should play, and a corresponding urgency to use that understanding to improve responses at all levels.The 18 essays in AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses contribute to such an understanding by examining the impacts of HIV and AIDS on labor markets and wages, household income and consumption dynamics, and the agricultural sector as a whole; by studying the ways in which households respond to prime-age illness, death, and food insecurity; and by exploring the implications of local responses for the roles that national and international actors must play in addressing the AIDS-hunger nexus.This book creates an opportunity for development professionals to build the conceptual links lacking in current multisectoral frameworks, assess impacts and costs, propose indicators and monitoring systems, and design appropriate food- and nutrition-related interventions and policies."