Q1

How poor families recognized?

Q2

Whether women dependent families / poor women are recognized or not?

Q3

Whether families of wage laborers are recognized or not?

APRLP has clear focus on equity and institution development. Identification of resource poor families, women dependent families and wage seekers is an important first step in this direction. Without this, their opportunities in the project can not be ensured.

• It is interesting to note that all categories of watersheds have recognized poor families. The influence of Indira Kranti Pathakam (VELUGU) is seen in the process of identification of poor families. As indicated in the previous sections, who played a key role in this process is an important consideration.

• In majority of watersheds (all types of projects), single women and women headed families are recognized. Though they are mainly meant for Watershed + activities, this process created an entry point for women in the project.

• Majority of the projects (75% total - all types) recognized wage dependent families. It is interesting to see that NGO PIAs (in watershed + projects), the wage dependent families are not recognized.

Q4

Are there any poor person, who are not members of any group?

ARPLP has clear approach for institutional arrangements that believe in plurality and coexistence of institutions. Each institution has a functional role in the project. It is important to create such institutional space at the village level also. Serious efforts are made to enroll all individuals (mainly women) in any form institution, particularly SHGs.

• Several new types of institutions are established by the PFAs. It is very interesting to see that both types of PFAs in APRLP have formed 24 types of institutions each, while both types PFAs in Non APRLP formed 10 types of institutions each.

• Some of the interesting institutional forms are the following:

• Formation of Sub Committees for the project is an interesting innovation to further decentralize the project decisions within the village: Examples in this direction are Sub Committee for 50 Hect; Sub Committees within Village Organizations for watershed project and Drainage Block Committees (In Kurnool, where the size of village is very large and several projects are sanctioned in the same village).

• It is observed that as many 75% watersheds could not achieve 100% enrollment of members (particularly women members in SHGs). This phenomenon is observed in all types of watersheds. There seems to be several reasons for this mainly, the practical difficulties in the process of enrollment of new members.