Participatory Water Harvesting Technologies Promoting Land Development
The project mainly focused on creating awareness on need of water conservation and building water harvesting stuctures through people participation and involvement. This aimed at creating empowerment, promote skills and benefit the local communities. Priority was also given to the preservation of the quality of water resources, incluiding the supporting eco-systems.
The major purpose of constructing new water harvesting stuctures and reviving old stuctures was for improving water availabili and combating drought and flood problems and in turn leading to:
? Recharge ground water and water level in the wells.
? Make drinking water available to community during summer months in their own villages.
? Check the distress sale of milk animals.
? Revive the traditional water harvesting system by using folk wisdom and indigeneous techniques and to make it community based with greater community participation.
? Assure irrigation in summer months and green grass in the pasture and the grazing lands for a longer duration.
? Local employment generation for below poverty line people through execution of these water harvesting projects.
The major purpose of constructing new water harvesting stuctures and reviving old stuctures was for improving water availabili and combating drought and flood problems and in turn leading to:
? Recharge ground water and water level in the wells.
? Make drinking water available to community during summer months in their own villages.
? Check the distress sale of milk animals.
? Revive the traditional water harvesting system by using folk wisdom and indigeneous techniques and to make it community based with greater community participation.
? Assure irrigation in summer months and green grass in the pasture and the grazing lands for a longer duration.
? Local employment generation for below poverty line people through execution of these water harvesting projects.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
PHD Rural Development Foundation
Country:
India
Area Of Work:
Land Degradation
Grant Amount:
US$ 32,942.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 44,578.39
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 5,309.00
Project Number:
SGP/GEF/IND/OP2/03/RJ13
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Notable Community Participation
An innovative approach adopted in the project was that the community developers selected from within the local community with assistance from local volunteers has conducted all the project activities. They have been involved from the very conception such as mobilization of the community and involving the CBOs, identification of the project sites, prepration of design and drawing, survey and need assessment of the area, to the construction of dams, formation of SHGs, co-ordination with banks for loan for women towards livelihood promotion, construction of toilets and so on.
Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples
Project involved mainly two communities: the Gujjars and the Meena tribes. The former live on the hilly range and their main occupation is animal husbandry and later live on the plains and practice subsistence agriculture.
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SGP Country office contact
Mr Manish Kumar Pandey
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Ms Aradhana Goyal
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New Delhi, Delhi, 110003
New Delhi, Delhi, 110003
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