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Sustainability
of watershed interventions, assets and benefits depend on
the strength of its institutions. User groups are an
important component of institutional arrangements of
Watershed Based Livelihoods Projects. The processes that
focus on user groups are consolidated in the table here. It
is very obvious that the user groups are not adequately
supported and strengthened in the project. At every stage of
project phase, the role of user groups is undermined - weak
inputs to form and nurture them, cursory or negligible role
in action planning, external domination in action planning
(supply driven rather than demand driven), contractor
oriented execution, no/ negligible contribution, no rights
to user groups and some of the strong and quantified
observations from the bench marking study of processes. A
completely neglected User Group is least interested in
maintaining and managing watershed assets. The
sustainability of watershed assets, investments and benefits
is strongly connected to the willingness of these non
existent and disempowered institutions. |
