Area of interventions

• Management of natural resources with an emphasis on community level (ground) water management and management of common land; and creating endowments for surviving droughts

• Strengthening of production systems with an emphasis on diversification and intensification in agriculture, horticulture, livestock, fisheries and technology innovation;

• Facilitating Marketing, institutional and economic instruments with special emphasis on improved access to marketing systems and financial services, and on designing and testing innovative drought adaptation risk financing schemes; and

• Institutional support and capacity building that includes community mobilization and awareness and knowledge sharing.

Focal Activities

• Identifying gaps and missing links in the on-going drought-related programs and activities in the select areas/rural communities of AP chosen for participating in the pilot;

• Facilitating integration and greater alignment of different programs and institutional mechanisms for delivering drought-related assistance to these communities;

• Designing and testing innovative methods, institutional mechanisms and instruments for helping selected communities to adapt to drought, targeting different groups within these communities (e.g. medium farmers, marginal/small farmers, landless and poorest);

• Improving awareness on drought adaptation options and approaches

• Disseminating the results of the pilots' efforts and build support for wider demand generation and replication.

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