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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

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Title 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
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Contributor Wani, S P
Marimuthu, S
Sreedevi, T K
Singh, R
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3866/1/J397_2008_GTZ_Report_screen.pdf
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