Policies and Possibilities: Compilation of Good Practices

Each village is a bundle of stories. Each person could add a new dimension to the watershed experiences. While conducting the field work, study teams gathered some interesting stories, anecdotes and experiences. They establish the possibility of an idea, an approach, and a new way of looking at the same old project. This volume consists of all such interesting experiences from several watersheds. These stories try to fill the gaps in the process analysis of previous chapters. This volume adds life to the entire set by bringing human dimension to the watershed projects and its processes. Initial idea was to integrate these experiences in to the previous volumes itself. But this gives very little space for narrating the basic idea and does not justify the inclusion in other volumes. This volume is a bunch of flowers, exhibiting the color of watershed processes and their successes. There are also few thorns, which indicate the future challenges. Each story is an independent experience and allows the reader to start anywhere. However, it is important to note that the main purpose of these stories is to briefly narrate the possibility and establish the evidence of the experience. The stories do not give an exhaustive picture or a 'complete' picture of the experience. This feature of this volume could be interpreted as both strength as well as weakness of the volume.

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