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WASSAN has been working with community based
organisations (CBOs) of the poor, to enhance their
capacities to conserve the natural resource base of
their members and their community and enhance its
productivity. WASSAN’s interest in CBOs arises from
its understanding that ;
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The government invests substantially in watershed
development.
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The poor should benefit from such investment, and they
can do so only by being fully involved with related
programmes;
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Self-help groups (SHGs), Village Organisations (VOs)
and their Mandal Mahila Samakhyas (MMSs) have an
active and large membership, drawn from the poorer
sections, and, therefore, their engagement with
natural resource management will benefit the poor;
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Wherein watershed development (WSD) and
natural resource management (NRM) programmes are
managed by VOs and MFs, they could effectively impact
the livelihoods of large sections of the poor in the
area.
WASSAN has already begun work with CBOs helping build
their capacities to design and manage WSD and NRM
projects. Although these experiences are of recent
origin, WASSAN wished to step back and study closely
the potential that CBOs have in undertaking WSD and
NRM programmes, the conditions under which this
potential can be enhanced and the role that WASSAN
and others may have to play to enhance the potential.
Keeping all these in mind, WASSAN has initiated a
study to determine :
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The potential for CBOs to act as facilitators of NRM/WSD
programmes / projects
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The roles that others, in particular, voluntary
development organisations (VDOs), known also as
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and
governmental organisations (GOs), could perform in
strengthening VOs and MMSs for NRM/WSD work without
corrupting their organisational integrity or
subverting their agenda
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The support (policy, financial, capacity building,
other) that VOs and MMSs might need, to facilitate NRM/WSD
work
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Key processes that need to be adopted at each level
for the NRM/WSD work to be effective
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set of conditions (in the form of a check list) that
must exist in a VO/MMS, for WASSAN to choose to work
with it.
A Study Report on
Potential of Community Based Organisations to
undertake Watershed Development and Natural Resource Management
Programs
For details ....
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