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Understanding Processes of Watershed Development Projects in
India - From Process Studies to Policy Advocacy - A
culmination workshop of Process Study in seven states -
workshop proceedings
Venue: Alankrita
Resorts, Hyderabad Date:
26-27, September, 2007,
Though a set of consolidated reports (seven volumes and
posters) was produced by the end of the process study, which
put together the data from all states, the need for
publishing state specific reports was realized during the
national level sharing workshop at Hyderabad on 26th and
27th Sep 2006. To fulfill this need, WASSAN team and the
state nodal agencies put together a consolidated report for
each state in which process study was conducted. Each state
report consists of the recommendations of the state level
sharing workshop; recommendations from the process study
report and process study report itself. These state reports
are expected to trigger a process of policy reforms of
watershed development projects in the state and set the
agenda for the same. The state governments; civil society
organizations and academic institutions could equip
themselves with the feed back from these reports and
contribute to the formulation of new generation watershed
development projects in the state.
ICEF
National Workshop Proceedings
 LEAD
Advocacy Network - Andhra Pradesh (2006)
LEAD Advocacy Network (LAN) is an inclusive group (open
network) of institutions and individuals, interested in
enhancing the knowledge base related to sustainable
livestock and environment interactions and contributing to
informed debates and policy options. The goal is to
enhancement of pro-poor livestock related livelihoods by
strengthening practices of sustainable NRM particularly in
watersheds and the promotion of an enabling policy
environment. (See
www.indialead.org)
As a
part of the LEAD Advocacy Network (LAN), WASSAN has anchored
the consultations in Andhra Pradesh. Consistent with the
overall thematic focus of the LAN across states, two
specific programs viz. watershed development and Indira
Kranthi Patham (IKP) are taken for wide ranging
consultations and advocacy. The thematic focus is on
‘Processing Lessons for evolving program strategies and
policy options’. The focus of the consultations was
to identify the issues and appropriate experiences and to
derive lessons for developing program strategies and to
evolve policy options. The basic premise is that the main
bottleneck in taking up the ‘livestock-livelihoods-natural
resource’ agenda in watersheds and IKP is the lack of know
ledge about appropriate activities to take up and processes
to follow . Deriving processes and popularizing good
examples would therefore, help in mainstreaming the agenda.
Program Components:
The
LAN-AP program has mainly three components:
LAN-AP
Program Report
Regional Consultation Meeting -
North Coastal Region
- Livestock Livelihoods and NRM - Proceeding Lessons for
evolving programme strategies and Policy options...
28th March, 2006
 The
main objective of these regional consultations was to
develop an inventory of experiences/ best practices and
identify issues related to livestock based livelihoods. As
part of this, the first regional consultation meeting was
held in Pendurthi, near Vishakapatman on 28th March, 2006,
for North coastal region. Representatives of several NGOs,
line departments, Field level activists have participated in
this meeting.
Report
Regional Consultation Meeting -
Rayalaseema Region
on "Livestock, Livelihoods and NRM - Processing Lessons for
Evolving Programme Strategies and Policy Options"....
4th
April 2006
The
consultation meeting was at Conference Hall, Punnami
Resorts,
Horsely Hills, Madanapalle. Around 100 participants
belonging to 5 districts (Chittoor, Anantapur, Cuddapah,
Kurnool and Nellore) participated the workshop. Participants
included representatives from NGOs and government
functionaries and primary stakeholders from community. The
objective of the consultative meeting was to identify issues
and region specific variations in livestock related
interventions so as to synthesize the lessons that give
future direction for necessary policy advocacy.
Report
People's Review Meeting of CLDP in Kosigi, Daultabad
and Bommaraspet,
5th April 2006
To orient the assignees on the process and also to provide a
platform for sharing
 and
addressing their problems, a review meeting with assignees
was organised. Assignees, Para workers, Mandal technical
assistants (MTA), Multi Disciplinary Team leader (MDT) and
Project Director attended the meeting along with PMC
representatives. Around 200 members participated in the
meeting from 12 villages of three mandals along with
representatives of Dalit Samkhya, Dalit Bahujan Shramik
Union (DBSU).
Report
National Workshop on Process Monitoring - Consolidating
Lessons from Experiences of Monitoring Large Scale
Development Initiatives......7th-8th,
February 2006
 A
National workshop was organized by WASSAN with the support
of DFID-I and CRD, Government of Andhra Pradesh at St Ann’s Generalate, Hyderabad to
discuss and get new directions for strengthening ongoing
process monitoring practices at APRLP. In this connection
various organizations involved in large-scale developmental
initiatives were invited to share their experiences in the
workshop. And the main purpose of the workshop is to derive
inputs from different organizations in involved similar kind
of interventions. This was specifically organized to
substantiate the work done by WASSAN and with a special
intention to tailor independent process monitoring
strategies for APRLP.
Report
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