The Process Guidelines of CLDP have a provision for special stream of innovative projects, which are expected to be exemplary in several ways. It was also envisaged that this special stream would be exclusively in the domain of well-established resource organizations from voluntary sector. As part of this, WASSAN facilitated the discussions among selected Resource Organizations from NGOs and also interactions with senior government officers. The main purpose of these deliberations was to conceptualize the role of NGO Resource Organizations in the special stream of innovative projects in the CLDP. These deliberations helped to define the role of NGO Resource Organizations and their contribution. Based on these consultation meetings, the need for formalization of the partnership between Go.AP and these resource organizations was also identified. In the light of these discussions, an MOU was also conceptualized and agreed upon to formalize the partnerships.

In this process, very limited number of selected NGO resource organizations participated. All these organizations have strong field presence and have long experiences of working with dalit families and natural resource management related themes. These 16 NGO Resource Organizations come from the following districts - Ranga reddy, Nalgonda, Warangal, Kadapa, Chittoor, Ananthapur and Visakhapatnam.

Goal and Objectives

The main goal was to create model projects under CLDP by invoking the provision made in Process Guidelines (Chapter 13) and forging partnerships between NGOs and GoAP in the context of CLDP.  The specific objectives of this were ;

• Creating a stream of innovative projects under Comprehensive Land Development Project (CLDP) and develop them into a demonstration and model projects.

• Ensuring   the productivity enhancement and livelihoods diversification of the families in the selected CLDP blocks, as a result of developing the assigned lands.

• Providing feed back to the concerned officers at district and state levels based on the field experiences, for improving over all quality of the project.

Expected End Results

1. The spirit of the Guidelines is transferred on to the ground and poor families improve the productivity of their lands and diversify their livelihoods options.

2. An innovative stream of CLDP projects would be created at field level as demonstration projects and as sources of inspiration and learning centers to the district and neighboring mandals.

3. Members of NGO Resource Organizations would be recognized as resource organizations/ persons for all the capacity building needs of the district on CLDP.

4. An autonomous flexible system would be evolved within the mainstream projects with the support of all parties.

As part of this arrangement the resource organizations took up the responsibility of facilitating and implementing CLDP in the selected villages/blocks of land and they were given 10% of the total project cost towards administration and field level training expenses.

WASSAN is one of the four parties involved in this arrangement that played a coordinating role. i.e taking up the emerging issues from time to time in the implementation process and playing an active role in resolving those issues. Also support the capacity building needs of these organizations along with Centre for Natural Resource managements, APARD.

Apart from this WASSAN also took responsibility of implementation of this project in Ranga Reddy districts in 8 blocks along with two local NGOs, VIKASAM and JANVIKAS.   Efforts were put in realizing the objectives and end result of this initiative. Accordingly WASSAN and these NGOs entered an MOU detailing the tasks of each organisation
 

WASSAN actively facilitated the deliberations, drafting and finalizing MOU and for the proposal to take a concrete shape.  Along with CNRM-APARD  two training programmes and review meetings were conducted with the staff of the selected NGOS. The training themes were Formation and orientation of Common interest groups of assignees (November 8th and 9th) and Planning process in CLDP( December 7th to 10th ) . Though the MOU was signed on 15th September, it two took nearly three months for all the 16 NGOs to get formal allocation of villages/blocks from respective Project Directors.  And still there are issues on the nature of collaboration and roles of each agency involved, which needs to be constantly reviewed and resolved.

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  Towards Making a Difference.

Experiences from a special stream in
the Comprehensive Land Development Project (CLDP)

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