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Decentralized capacities
Institutionalization
Participatory methods
Resource material |
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:: VISION :: |
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A centre
for providing quality training services to various
stakeholders in strengthening participatory learning
processes by promoting and nurturing decentralized
institutional mechanisms. |
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As an approach, WASSAN
is focusing on building decentralized training capacities and
innovate on the institutional systems of capacity building
delivery. The journey started with the concept of developing Pool
of Resource Persons and traversed a long way to the establishment
of Cluster level Livelihood Resource Centers (CLRCs) by the
Government of Andhra Pradesh. As a support organization, WASSAN
was able to influence the system/ policy for establishing such
institutional mechanism, in the form of CLRCs, for capacity
building service delivery for different NRM projects in the state
(see Box 1: Evolution of LRCs). As a result, there was large
number of Livelihood Resource Centers established in the state by
2005. This created a new paradigm and WASSAN had to re-position
itself to this new context with;
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Functioning as a
Secretariat to Consortium of Resource Organizations
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Anchoring Livelihoods
Resource Centre at Parigi in Ranga Reddy District
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Extending Professional
Support Services to Strengthen LRCs in three districts
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Networking of LRCs,
anchored by NGOs
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Box No. 1 Evolution of LRCs
During
the final stages of AP Rural Livelihoods Projects (APRLP),
Commissionerate of Rural Development, Government of Andhra
Pradesh initiated 55 Cluster Livelihoods Resource Centres
(CLRCs) in Andhra Pradesh (2005-07). The main purpose of
these CLRCs is to provide capacity building support to
various village level institutions established under
watershed development projects, NREGS, Comprehensive Land
Development Project (CLDP) and other rural development
projects. This initiative was triggered during the Annual
Network Meeting of WASSAN in 2004, where WASSAN shared
various good practices in capacity building service
delivery in the context of watershed development projects
in the state. The Capacity Building Network in Ranga Reddy
District, which was established and nurtured by WASSAN
during 2001-04, was one of such initiatives. Shri K Raju,
then Commissioner of Rural Development (2004) constituted
a working group to evolve a strategy for up-scaling such
good practices in capacity building service delivery. This
working group consisted of three institutions –
Commissionerate of Rural Development, APARD and WASSAN,
gave a concrete shape to the concept of Cluster
Livelihoods Resource Centres and by 2005, 55 Cluster
Livelihoods Resource Centres and 17 District Livelihoods
Resource Centres (DLRC) were established in the state by
Commissionerate of Rural Development. Since then, these
CLRCs symbolized the institutionalized and decentralized
systems for effective delivery of capacity building
services on a large scale. |
WASSAN played a crucial role in all these processes.
 Meanwhile, several
participatory training tools and methods were developed to address
different levels of stakeholders. Capacity Building needs were
integrated into the Project Management Cycle so as to cater the
project requirements and action on the ground.
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