Amita Shah

Reorienting watershed development programme in India – an occasional paper

Watershed development is increasingly seen as the lynchpin of rural development in dryland areas – one that integates sectors and provides the foundation for subsequent development.

K. J. Joy

Suhas Paranjape

Shrinivas Badiger

Sharachchandra Lele

Posted on 12 May, 2009 01:17 PM

This report by FoRWARD deals with the reorientation of the watershed development programme in India. The government is apparently committing larger resources for watershed development and plans to bring most of the dryland, degraded lands under the coverage of the programme over the next 25 years or so.

Watershed development programmes in Madhya Pradesh: present scenario and issues for convergence

This report reviews the present status of watershed development in Madhya Pradesh for better convergence by carrying out a stock taking exercise and learning from the past

Sucharita Sen

Animesh Kumar

Posted on 12 May, 2009 12:40 PM

This report by Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue (FoRWARD) attempts to look at the present status of watershed development in the State of Madhya Pradesh so as to be able move towards a vision of better convergence across developmental objectives (including equity), synergy between natural resource regeneration, administrative co- ordination, institutional coherence, and resource mobilization. It is in this larger context, the review focuses is on (a) spatial spread, prioritization, and complementarity across projects; (b) comparison across modes/ approaches and cross learning; and, (c) issues for future policies.

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