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Annual Report2011-2012
UNDER THE CLIMATE LENS...
Watershed Organisation Trust
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CoNTENTSSectin I 5Philosophy, Vision, Mission 6
Board of Trustees 7
Foreword 8
List of Abbreviaons 11
About WOTR 12
Consultancy Services and Products Oered 13
WOTR Involvements 14
Area of Operaon 16
Training Outreach 17
Overview of Acvies (Cumulave upto March 2012) 18
Sectin II 23
Acvies 2011-2012 24
Capacity Building Support for Watershed Development and Rainfed Natural
Resources Management 24
Direct Implementaon of Projects 25
Climate Change Adaptaon Project 28
Drinking Water and Sanitaon 41
Renewable Energy 43
Womens Empowerment 44
Health & Nutrion 45
Community Managed Rural Tourism 47
Knowledge Management 47
Communicaons & Outreach 50
The School of Sustainable Living and Livelihood (SSLL) 50
Sectin III 53
Networking and Linkages 54
Highlights 55
What Visitors Say 57
Financial Statement 59
Our Donors and Enablers 60
Contact Details 61
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Sectin I
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Missin
To provide commied development support that
movates, energizes and empowers individuals,groups, communies and other organizaons to
undertake integrated ecosystems development for
enhancement of well-being on a sustainable basis.
Philsphy
WOTR believes that land degradaon and water
scarcity are the most intense and commonly felt
needs of a village community that can bring dierent
groups of people together to begin their development
process. Community restoraon of the natural
environment makes sustainability happen. Such
community-led eorts help combat challenges and
adapt to climate change and migate its impacts.
Visin
Communies, especially the poor within, are empowered
to live in dignity and secure their livelihood in sustainable
eco-systems.
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Fr. Hermann Bacher
Founder Chairman
He is known as the father of watershed
development movement in Maharashtra and the
reason is obvious enough. Born in Switzerland, Fr.
Bacher made Maharashtra his home early in life.
Having come into close contact with villagers whose
lives had been turned upside down for lack of water
resources, he iniated watershed development
acvies and subsequently co-founded WOTR. His
favourite lines have been: Without watershed
development, there is no soluon to drought and
Water is the problem; WOTR, the soluon.
Bard f Trustees
Mr. Crispino Lobo
Co-Founder & Managing Trustee
An alumnus of the Gokhale Instute of Polics
and Economics, India, and the Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, USA, Crispino
has ve academic degrees covering the elds
of philosophy, theology, psychology, economics
and public administraon. He is well known
in development circles for his knowledge and
achievements in the elds of natural resource
management, parcipatory watershed development
and integrated water resources management. He
co-founded WOTR, together with Fr. Bacher. He
now heads the Sampada Trust, a micronance and
entrepreneurship development centre.
Members:
Mr. Asoke Basak
IAS (Rered)
When it comes to an understanding of the funconing
of government agencies, there is none beer than
Asoke Basak, now a rered IAS ocer who served
as the Addional Chief Secretary of the government
of Maharashtra, Chairman of the Maharashtra State
Electricity Board, Chief Execuve Ocer of the
Zilla Parishad-Bhir, Collector of Nasik and Nanded,
Dairy Development Commissioner and has worked
with the Maharashtra government in various other
posions. He has two Masters degrees in Geology and
Business Administraon and a Diploma in Systems
Management to his credit. His diverse experience in
various elds of development administraon is whathas proved to be of immense benet to WOTR.
Dr. G.G. Parikh
Chairman (Yusuf Meherally Centre)
A well known freedom ghter and champion of the
poor, G G as he is known to his friends, Dr. Parikh
is one of the mainstays of the Yusuf Meherally
Centre, a centre for rural re-empowerment, located
in Tara village, Panvel. At 84, he travels the 90 or so
kilometres to Tara in Raigad district, near Mumbai,
on a weekly, and somemes bi-weekly, basis and
connues his medical work at his clinic in Mumbai
for the rest of the week. Dr. Parikh is also working
on a Khadi Gramodyog Andolan. He has been on the
Board of Trustees of WOTR since 1996.
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Frewrd
WOTR has historically had a systems-based approach to Watershed Development
aware of the increasing fragility of ecosystems and strengthening these through
people-centric, parcipatory intervenons.
Since 2008, WOTR has been reorienng, re-organising and equipping itself with
respect to strategy, approach, focus, intervenons and measurable indicators in
order to specically address the challenges (and opportunies) posed by climate
change to vulnerable rural communies. In the process, it has introduced new
approaches and intervenons bringing Adaptaon into the focus-forefront.
We have introduced several new concepts and intervenons:
Ecosystems-based Watershed Development - which is a means to reduce risks,
migate the impact of extreme meteorological events, increase producvity,
conserve biodiversity, improve quality of life, and stabilise and enhance nature based
livelihoods.
Adapve Sustainable Agriculture promotes low external inputs and use of
indigenous seeds to increase land producvity and reduce cost of culvaon. This
is combined with agro-meteorology and water budgeng to make agriculture
sustainable, ecient and adapve keeping in mind food security, nutrion security
and market demands.
Agro-meteorology uniquely combines locale-specic Met-advisories (weather
forecasts) and Agro-advisories that provide mely informaon to farmers so that
they can plan their agricultural acvies accordingly. This is supported by a Content
Management System that electronically archives crop related informaon, weather
condions aecng major pest and disease incidences, and cultural pracces of crop
management supported by crop-calendars.
Water Budgeng helps communies visualize and plan their crops based on their
exisng needs and requirements of water and water availability, ensuring opmum
and ecient use of water by opmizing irrigaon, equitable sharing of excess water,
and considered decisions on groundwater withdrawals.
Integraon ofBiodiversity concerns builds awareness in the community about the
importance of promong, conserving and protecng the local biodiversity, helps
them keep a record of it through parcipatory mapping, idenfy and sustainably
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promote biodiversity-based economic acvies, and address likely adverse
biodiversity-related impacts of decisions taken by local bodies.
This process of change has been a long-drawn out one and has crystallized over the
last 4 years from our own ground-level experiences of successes and failures.
We have been rethinking convenonal development and have introduced
approaches like Systems Thinking and Complexity in analysis and programming and
are developing strategies to incorporate these.
Keeping the above Complexity and its ramicaons in mind we have been
developing tools and frameworks while adapng exisng ones. These help us move
from acvity based project design & management to framework based project
design, management, and monitoring & evaluaon that are indicaons based rather
than indicators based, especially of impacts that may not be visible in the short-termbut will emerge in the long-term.
We have simultaneously redesigned and adapted our research methods where
members of local communies become researchers observing, measuring, and
assessing for themselves not only problems but also the improvements that a project
brings about. We have also been taking up new researches at the ground to assess
climate related impacts.
Since these are new areas of thinking and approaches, our own eld and
research teams have undergone a series oftrainings over the last 3 years. Similar
capacity building sessions have also been carried out with key people from the
local communies. We are now designing and conducng training modules
on implicaons of Climate Change, vulnerability assessment, climate-smart
project planning, implementaon, and monitoring, for other implementers and
development praconers.
We have also ramped up our communicaons to put together informaon quickly,
in dierent formats that highlight indicaons and experiences at the local level and
the causal relaonships for these in a non-linear fashion. For this WOTR uses all theavailable web media and technologies to publicise issues as well as experiences.
Since ecosystems and communies are interlinked, WOTR has adopted a cluster
based approach in which regenerated and sustainably managed ecosystems provide
the bedrock onto which all other intervenons are anchored.
In order to increase the producvity and eciency of the farmer, land and water
available amidst changing local weather condions, we are developing integrated
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crop-water-nutrient-pest management schedules for specic crops. An iniave
to provide weather related crop advisories regularly is also underway. A Content
Management System called Agrimate which aims to electronically archive crop
related management pracces and automate disseminaon tailored to farmer needs
is ready now.
Local Biodiversity mapping using modied Peoples Biodiversity approach is being
undertaken so as to idenfy, describe, and conserve local seeds, ora and fauna with
a view to building resilience of local communies and ecosystems to extreme climate
events. Such resources can also become sources of alternave green livelihoods
and sustenance especially in mes when tradional resources fail.
We have developed various community-centred, IT enabled tools to map
vulnerability and its drivers, and idenfy migave and adapve responses: CASDAAT
- Climate Adapve Sustainable Development Assessment & Adjustment Tool andLM3 - Local Money Mulplier; Vulnerability Assessment Tool (VAT), Parcipatory 3D
Modeling for Climate Change Adaptaon, Modied Peoples Biodiversity Register,
AgriMate, and Water Budgeng are in the works.
We are grateful for the immense support of the Embassy of Switzerland in India, the
Swiss Agency for Development Co-operaon and NABARD who have partnered us in
our eorts.
Dr. Marcella DSouza Crispino Lobo
Execuve Director Managing Trustee
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List f Abbreviatins
AHB AndheriHilfe, Bonn
BMZ German Ministry for Economic Cooperaon
CASDAAT Climate Adapve Sustainable Development Assessment &
Adjustment Tool
CBOs Community Based Organizaons
CBP Capacity Building Phase
CCA Climate Change Adaptaon
DTC Darewadi Training Centre
ECOs Ecological Community Organisers
GoM Government of Maharashtra
GP Gram Panchayat
GTZ German Agency for Technical Cooperaon
IGWDP lndo-German Watershed Development Programme
IRHA Internaonal Rainwater Harvesng Alliance
ILRI Internaonal Livestock Research Instute
IT Informaon Technology
KfW German Development Bank
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
MPs Mahila Pravartaks
MREGS Maharashtra Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MREGS)
NABARD Naonal Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
NGO Non-Governmental Organisaon
NHWDP NABARD supported Holisc Watershed Development Program
NREGS Naonal Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
NRM Natural Resources Management
PIAs Project Implemenng Agencies
PPCP Public Private Civil Society Partnership
PRIs Panchaya Raj Instuons
RSO Resource Support Organisaon
SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperaon
SHGs Self-Help Groups
SIED Sanjeevani Instute for Empowerment and Development
SMS Samyukta Mahila Sami
SPS School of Public Service
SRTT Sir Ratan Tata Trust
SSLL School for Sustainable Living and Livelihoods
ST Sampada Trust
UNCCD United Naons Convenon to Combat Desercaon
VDC Village Development Commiee
VPM Vidarbha Panlot Mission
VSHGs Village Self-Help GroupsVWCs Village Watershed Commiees
WASUNDHARA WOTR Aenve to Social Unity for Nature,
Development and Humanity in Rural Areas
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Abut WoTR
Watershed Organisaon Trust (WOTR) is one
of the premier NGOs tackling water scarcity,
rural poverty, and food insecurity in the dry
lands of India today.
WOTRs specic objecves are to regenerate
the natural ecosystem with a strong
parcipatory, people-centric approach that
will simultaneously repair the torn social-
fabric of communies; address severe water-
scarcity, recurring drought, low-agricultural
producvity, resulng in chronic hunger and
mal-nutrion, maladaptaon; alternave,
diversied livelihood opportunies through
partnerships between diverse groups: villages,
NGOs, Government within India and across countries.
In the current climate of a changing Climate, WOTRs endeavour is to now see
development through a Climate lens that focuses on a development paradigm that
strengthens the adapve capacies of the Ecosystems and the communies living
within them. The eort is to build resilience in communies that can take growthparadigms towards compassionate and eco-system based ones. The perspecve
is now broadened to address resource-scarcies that usually leave communies
spiraling in economic and climate vulnerabilies.
In all, WOTR has worked in 2,531 villages in 33 districts of the ve states of
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand. In its 19
years it has organized 1,145 watershed development and (currently) climate change
adaptaon projects 53 villages, covering over 695,226 hectares and impacng 988,465
people. Its womens SHG promoon, micro-nance, trainings and other iniaves
5,045 self-help groups, which use micro-nancing to empower villagers with a desire
to work but no resources to get started. Over 65,783 women have improved their lives
through these ground-level organizaons. This is either by direct implementaon or by
handholding NGOs and village commiees in implementaon. WOTR has 184 NGOs
and government Project Implemenng Agencies (PIAs), which are vital partners in
WOTRs extensive development network.
WOTRs CCA project is specically implemented in 53 villages of Maharashtra,
Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh covering an area of 33,242 ha (332 sq.kms),
directly beneng 52,000 people from 9,800 households. The learnings crystallized
from these will be taken forward in all our future intervenons.
WOTR does:
Capacity Building and
Implementation Support
Direct Project
Implementation
Expertise and Service
Provisioning
Knowledge Management
Action research Networking and Policy
Dialogue
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Cnsultancy Services and Prducts offered
With competencies in Watershed Development and Natural Resource Management,
Integrated Water Resources Management, Rural Development, Community
Mobilizaon, Gender and Womens Empowerment, Systems Development and
Capacity Building, WOTR oers a variety of consultancy services to various
stakeholders such as forest departments, corporate houses, government
departments and NGOs.
Trainings and Exposure Dialogue:Designing and conducng need and demand-
based trainings in natural resource management, parcipatory and integrated
watershed development, community mobilizaon, applicaon of IT to project
management and entrepreneurship development.
Capacity Building and Instuonal Development: Upgrading the nancial,managerial, technical, social, organizaonal, team building and communicaon
skills of developmental agencies and primary stakeholders through custom- made,
systems- based and outcome- oriented pedagogies, with hand-holding and on- site
accompaniment.
Project Proposal Preparaon and Advisory: Project design, proposal formulaon,
feasibility studies and project proposal preparaon.
Project Supervision, monitoring & evaluaons:Supervision, monitoring, review and
evaluaons studies.
Programme Management: Management of projects and funds on behalf of donors
involving mul-stakeholders such as civil society actors, NGOs, corporate and
government agencies.
Informaon Technology and Soware Development Support
Development Communicaon and Documentaon such as audio, video and
photographic documentaon of the process and project works, as well as
preparaon of themac documentaries. Learning Systems: Development of processes, instruments and mechanisms
that help individuals and organisaons to capture, archive and process data
and informaon in a manner that promotes and facilitates learning, insight,
adaptaon and behavior change, increasing eciency, eecveness and
sustainability and makes the organisaon into a learning and knowledge enty.
Corporate Consultancy: Designing of survey and esmates, project formulaon,
soil and water conservaon measures, supervision and monitoring. The local
communies, NGOs and corporate team are capacitated to promote the
development process in their area.
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WoTR Invlvements
Programme Support
1. Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), Maharashtra
2. Resource Support Organisaon for Vidarbha Distress Development Program inMaharashtra (PM/NABARD)
3. Resource Support Agency for Rural Development Intervenons in South-East
Madhya Pradesh
4. Resource Support Agency in Tribal Belt of South Rajasthan
5. State Resource Organisaon and District Resource Organisaon for IWMP
Projects in Maharashtra
6. Support Training Instute for Hariyali Programme (GoM) in Dhule and Amrava
District
Direct Project Implementaon
Projects directly implemented by WOTR
1. Integrated Watershed Development projects in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan
2. Water Harvesng and parcipatory Water Budgeng
3. Adapve Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihoods
4. Health, Water and Sanitaon Promoon
5. Womens Empowerment6. Micro-Finance (taken over by Sampada Trust a sister instuon)
7. Informaon Technology and Management Informaon Systems (IT-MIS)
8. GIS and Remote Sensing -based, MIS-linked Analycal and Decision Support
Systems
9. Renewable Energy
10. Community Based Rural Tourism
Services Provided
1. Capacity Building/Trainings provided to local partners, naonal and internaonal
parcipants
2. IT based Services (Applied Informaon Technology)
3. Program and Project Management (including Feasibility Studies and Proposal
Formulaon)
4. Research and Knowledge Management
5. Training support on Lean Management (Kaizen Methodology) for producvity
enhancement
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6. Consultancy services.
7. Policy Dialogue, Networking and Linkage Building.
Networking and Advocacy
WOTR is/has
1. Supported a network of 184 NGOs/Govt. PIAs
2. Supported over 400 NGOs across India and 200,897 persons from 35 countries in
training/capacity building
3. Co-founder and member IRHA (Internaonal Rainwater Harvesng Alliance,
Geneva)
4. Accredited observer status to the UNCCD as CSO.
5. Close cooperave arrangement with the Govt. of India, Govt. of Maharashtra,
Govt. of Rajasthan,Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.
New Partnerships
WOTR has entered into new partnerships with several organisaons that bring in
their experse for the Climate Change Adaptaon project. WOTR has signed MoUs
with:
(i) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)
(ii) Central Research Instute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA)
(iii) Internaonal Centre for Research on Agriculture and Forestry (ICRAF)
(iv) Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV)
(v) Bhara Vidyapeeth Instute of Environment Educaon and Research (BVIEER)
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Area f operatin
Rajasthan
Madhya
Padesh
Jharkhand
Orissa
Head Ofce
Project Ofce
Regional Resource Centres (10)
Implementation Units (16)
Training Centres (2)
Maharashtra
Andhra
Pradesh
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Training outreach
Legend
No. of Paricipatns
NA
1 - 20
21 - 125
125 - 400
400 - 1000
1000 - 13000
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
KarnatakaGoa
Kerala
Maharashtra
Orissa
Rajasthan
Gujarat Madhya Pradesh
Bihar
Jharkhand
Sikkim
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam Nagaland
Manipur
MizoramTripura
Meghalaya
Chhattisgarh
WestBengal
Delhi
Haryana
Jammu & Kashmir
HimachalPradesh
Punjab
Uttaranchal
Uttar Pradesh
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overview f Activities (Cumulative upt March 2012)
Activities Cumulative up t 31st Mar 2012
Sr. No. Acvies Cumulave up to 31st Mar 2012
Total Operaons 1121 villages
148 NGOs / Govt. PIAs
30 districts (25 dist. Maharashtra, 3 in
Madhya Pradesh& Rajasthan & 2 in Andhra
Pradesh )
674,096 hectares
956,936 people beneed
1. Capacity Building Support (Community management of natural and other resources)
i. IGWDP, Maharashtra / Other Funding 407 villages
25 districts
88 NGOs
220,022 ha. beneng
277,722 people
ii. Resource Support Organisaon (RSO) for Vidarbha Distress
Development Program in Maharashtra (PM/NABARD)
106 villages (24 clusters)
2 districts
11 NGOs
59,337 ha. beneng
70,631 people
iii. Govt. of Maharashtra
DPAP, Hariyali, IWDP, VPM
279 villages
4 districts
46 NGOs / PIAs
173,903 ha. beneng
262,837 people
iv. Resource Organisaon for Rural Development
Intervenons in South-East Madhya Pradesh
8 villages
3 districts
4 NGOs / PIAs
5,027 ha. beneng
4,281 people
v. Resource Support Agency in Tribal Belt of South Rajasthan 6 villages2 districts
3 NGOs / PIAs
3,282 ha. Beneng
9,105 people
Total Capacity Building Support 806 villages
30 districts (25 Maharashtra, 3 Madhya
Pradesh and 2 Rajasthan)
461,582 ha.
623,706 people beneed
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Sr. No. Acvies Cumulave up to 31st Mar 2012
2 Direct Implementaon of Projects
2.1 Watershed Development & Natural Resource Management
Maharashtra
IGWDP, WOTR-WASUNDHARA
110 villages
11 districts
64,418 ha. beneng
78,885 people
PPCP - MREGS-NREGA 109 villages
4 districts / 5 blocks
90,834 ha.
131,071 people beneed
Andhra Pradesh
APRLP, IWMP and NABARD-WDF
38 villages
2 districts
29,254 ha. beneng
77,633 people
Madhya Pradesh 11 villages
1 district
2,881 ha. beneng
5,029 people
Rajasthan
WOTR WASUNDHARA(AHB)
PPCP-MGNREGA
8 villages
2 districts
4,076 ha., beneng
11,393 people
13 villages
1 district
4,647 ha. beneng
5,261 people
2.2 Promoon Of Climate Change Adaptaon
Maharashtra 39 villages
26,062 ha.
31,852 people
Madhya Pradesh 8 villages
2,859 ha.
4,866 people
Andhra Pradesh 6 villages
4,331 ha.
14,642 people
Total Climate Change Adaptaon 53 villages
33,252 ha.
51,360 people
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Sr. No. Acvies Cumulave up to 31st Mar 2012
2.3 Drinking Water & Sanitaon
2.3.1 Drinking Water provisioning 119 villages / hamlets. Beneng over 45,000
villagers
2.3.2 School Environment and Sanitaon Projects Toilet and drinking water system in 119villages / 168 schools
2.4 Renewable Energy for Rural Development Solar Home-lighng systems in 3,478
households
Solar Street Light units at 31 places in 13
villages
Agni biomass stove for 3,563 households
Hot water/smokeless chullahs for 2,658
households
Solar Parabolic Cookers in 19 rural schools
2.5 Womens Self-Help Promoon and Developmental acvies 5,045 savings and credit groups promoted for
65,783 women members
2.6 Health & Nutrion
2.6.1 Health promoon 42 villages
83 MahilaPravartaks (Women Health
Promoters) trained
2.6.2 Child care and Growth Monitoring 2
(0 5 age group)
130 villages
3 districts
7,087 children beneted
2.7 Bio Village Acvity: To build awareness among the communiesabout the problems in current agricultural pracces and
implement organic farming through bio-dynamic methods of
culvaon
Acvies:
Baseline data collecon
Exposure visits to bio-dynamic villages
Trainings on Bio-dynamic farming and cercaon
Demonstraon on biodynamic preparaons
Farmers eld schools
7 villages/ 7 districts from 4 dierent regionsof Maharashtra
3. Consultancies
Consultancies undertaken
Watershed development
Natural Resources Management
Monitoring & Evaluaon
Project Evaluaon
India (in 7 States)
7 Govt. Instuons
7 Non Govt. Instuons
10 Corporate Sectors
Other than India
Somaliland, Kenya , Tanzania , Malavi, Bhutan,
Sudan
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Sr. No. Acvies Cumulave up to 31st Mar 2012
4. Trainings & Educaon
4.1 Trainings
For Implemenng Partners
Naonal Level Programs
Internaonal Level Programs
5,988 programs / 194,270 parcipants
755 programs / 21,467 parcipants
39 programs / 530 parcipants
Total Trainings 6,782 programs /
216,209 parcipants
4.2 The School for Sustainable Living and Livelihoods
WOTR has started the School for Sustainable Living & Livelihoods
since year 2007. Candidates from project villages in rural areas of
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are being trained
as ECOs (Ecological Community Organisers) and Rural Chroniclers
(RC).
69 (19 females) candidates have successfully
completed their course
38 (7 female) candidates are being trained
Total of 107 (26 female) rural youth are
beneng from this iniave.
4.3 School Strengthening Programme (SSP)
Objecve
To make Teaching and Learning Interesng and Meaningful
(Connecon Between Educaon & Childs Life)
2 clusters / 9 villages in Sangamner and Akole
talukas, Ahmednagar district.
5. Community Managed Rural Tourism It is being carried out in 3 villages of Akole
taluka, Ahmednagar District
6. Research and Knowledge Management Socio-economic Baseline Studies of several
Watershed Villages and
58 Research Studies on various topics have
been completed
7. Communicaon & Documentaon 37 books
60 lms
on various topics have been published/
produced
8. Informaon Technology Soware systems:
DSS
Parcipatory Net Planning
GPS enabled muster data collecon and
reporng system,
Web based GIS soware,
HR Admin System and Weather data
analysis systems
2 mulmedia games (Water Budgeng
and Rural Transformaons) developed for
community mobilisaon
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Activities 2011-2012
Capacity Building Supprt fr WatershedDevelpment and Rainfed Natural ResurcesManagement
WOTRs primary focus, since its inception in 1993, has been capacity building of
and support to NGOs and CBOs in Watershed Management. The objective is to
mobilise the self-help capacities of individuals and communities to regenerate
the eco-spaces or watersheds they live in, harvest rainwater wherever it falls,
use it productively and undertake sustainable livelihoods which takes them out
of poverty. This has been done through enhancing capabilities of NGOs, and
other implementing agencies for rural communities to regenerate and managethe watersheds they live in.
Capacity Building Support (community management of natural and other resources)
i. IGWDP, Maharashtra/Other Funding 67 villages
5 districts
13 NGOs
39,090 ha. beneng 60,631 people
ii. Resource Support Organisaon (RSO) forVidarbha Distress Development Program in
Maharashtra (PM/NABARD)
106 villages (24 clusters)
2 districts
11 NGOs
59,337 ha. beneng 70,631 people
iii. Resource Organisaon for Rural Development
Intervenons in South-East Madhya Pradesh
8 villages
3 districts
4 NGOs / PIAs
5,027 ha. beneng 4281 people
iv. Resource Support Agency in Tribal Belt of South
Rajasthan
6 villages
2 districts
3 NGOs / PIAs
3,282 ha. beneng 9105 people
Total 187 villages
11 districts (Maharashtra-6, MP-3 and
Rajasthan-1)
106,748 ha. beneng 143,778 people
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Program Management and Resource Organisaon for large-scaleprojects in Watershed Development
NGOs and Village Self-Help Groups (VSHGs) are guided by WOTR to
undertake environmental regeneration through trainings and handholding
support. During the year, 42 NGOs and Govt. PIAs of Maharashtra, MadhyaPradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan were accompanied in bilateral,
government and other donor funded projects, with the objective of increasing
capacities of NGOs and of the local communities, especially vulnerable
groups, to adapt to climate change and to undertake adaptive measures
that mitigate vulnerabilities.
Direct Implementatin f Prjects
Watersheds & Ecosystem Management
While WOTR has carried out a staggering extent of Capacity Building for Watershed
Development for various agencies, the knowledge has come from large-scale WSD
intervenons of its own at the ground. WOTRs Wasundhara Approach, developed
over a decade of implemenng WSD is uniquely parcipatory.The Wasundhara
approach has been implemented in over 287 villages since 2005 with far-reaching
impacts. The process connues beyond the project period. These guidelines are
also followed in all the 270 villages that WOTR and SIED jointly and individually
implement, across funding lines.WOTR connues to improve on these guidelines to
make it more eecve.
Percoluaon Tank - Khama (Jabalpur)
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Direct Implementaon of Watersheds by WOTR
Maharashtra
IGWDP, WOTR-WASUNDHARA
110 villages
11 districts
64,418 ha. beneng 78,885
people
30 villages
4 districts
16,185 ha. beneng
19,152 people
PPCP - MREGS-NREGA
109 villages
4 districts / 5 blocks
90,834 total area ha.
131,071 people beneted
87 villages
4 Districts / 5 blocks
75,425 ha. beneng
105,762 people
Andhra Pradesh
APRLP, IWMP and NABARD-
WDF
38 villages
2 districts
29,254 ha. beneng
77,633 people
22 villages
2 districts
20,825 ha beneng
46,289 people
Madhya Pradesh 11 villages
1 district
2,881 ha. beneng
5,029 people
11 villages
1 district
2,881 ha. beneng
5,029 people
Rajasthan
WOTR WASUNDHARA(AHB)
8 villages
2 districts
4,076 ha., beneng
11,393 people
7 villages
1 district
3,397 ha., beneng
10,238 people
PPCP-MGNREGA 13 villages
1 District
4,647 ha. beneng
5,261 people
13 Villages
1 District
4,647 ha. beneng
5,261 people
New Challenges Watershed Development in the context ofClimate Change
Watershed Development (WSD), classically understood, is basically a porolio of
measures designed to conserve soil, harvest rainwater, and increase vegetaon
and biomass. But since this can only be eecvely and sustainably achieved though
the acve involvement and parcipaon of people living in them, WSD must also
address the sustenance, quality of life and livelihoods needs of resident communies
and other stakeholders.
The challenge however, today, is not only to implement watershed projects
eciently in a parcipatory, comprehensive and integrated manner but to do so
adopng an eco-systems approach that includes viable climate-smart livelihoods.
This is necessary because human wellbeing today is crically dependent upon our
ability to reduce GHGs emissions (migaon), build resilience, reduce risk, manage
change (adaptaon), and drascally reduce poverty (development) in a manner that
is sustainable and widely adoptable, since the crises facing us is intergeneraonal
and universal. Regenerang, enhancing, conserving and sustainably managing
ecosystems (which includes low impact but producve livelihoods) can make a huge
contribuon to migaon, adapon and development.
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Harnessing the water cycle in a watershed has been the primary focus of watershed
intervenons; hence the emphasis on engineering and mechanical structures of soil and
water conservaon. However, the amount and ming of eecve rainfall we receive, the
magnitude of runo and the period of water retenon and availability are itself services
provided by ecosystems. Hence, a climate smart approach to WSD:
adopts systems approach that looks at the watershed as a whole;
takes into consideraon all the key ecosystems subsisng therein;
examines them in terms of their constuents;
assesses their current status and potenal to (i) conserve, sequester and abate
GHGs (migaon), (ii) reduce risk, build resilience and enhance capacies
(adaptaon) and, (iii) generate posive values and economic surpluses;
and traces out the nature of interrelaons between the various subsisng
ecosystems.
This holisc, system-wide analysis would then enable us to idenfy those least-
cost and most benet intervenons that would promote migaon, adaptaon
and sustainable development.
Operaonally, standard WSD pracces follow a ridge to valley approach as the
focus is to harvest as much rain water as possible. However, when one adopts an
ecosystems approach, one would have to complement this approach with that of
a Landscape Approach because ecosystems are embedded within idenable
geographical boundaries or land spaces in a watershed catchment. The landscape
or ecosystems approach would allow for integrated and comprehensive planning
of land, water, agriculture, forests, livestock, grasslands, sheries to ensure that
synergies are properly captured and dysfunconalies idened. The landscape
approach provides a framework for the beer management of ecosystem services
and is useful for addressing the issues of food, water and livelihood security;
responding to the impacts of climate change and contribung to its migaon.
WOTRs Watershed and Ecosystems Management aempts to build both hard as
well so resilience within communies against disasters of slow and sudden onset
such as droughts, moisture stress, infrequent and highly variable rainfall, intense
precipitaon, and pests and disease aacks. It is a mul-sectoral, muldisciplinaryapproach that involves connual interacon and exchange between and amongst
the various sectors and disciplines.
For this, WOTR has brought about the following changes in its WSD pracces:
Redesigning WSD structures to withstand errac and highly variable rainfall
Placing structures with biodiversity in mind
Biodiversity introduced in aorestaon acvity
VDCs role extended to include biodiversity commiees
Wasundhara Sevaks trained in CCA , biodiversity, DRR perspecve
Introducing Parcipatory 3D Modelling (P3DM)for DRR
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Climate Change Adaptatin Prject
WOTR started its Climate Change Adaptaon project with the support from Embassy
of Switzerland and Naonal Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
in the year 2009.
The project aims at developing capacies of the local communies to beer handle
the eects of climac changes. It seeks to develop the knowledge, strategies,
approaches, measures and processes that would help vulnerable communies to
cope with and if possible, adapt to the impending climac changes and which are
also adoptable, replicable and scalable.
The project acvies are designed such
that they help to achieve specic outcomes
like enhanced ecosystems, increasedproducvity of natural resources,
increased awareness about climate change
amongst people, and eecve governance
mechanism; all of which in turn enhance
communitys capacies to sustainably
manage their ecosystems and address
the climate change issues eecvely in
future. The complexity of the projects
makes it mandatory to follow progressive
elaboraon techniques for some ofthe acvies.
a. Soil and Water Conservaon
Soil and water conservaon acvies were carried out for 2,148 ha., and
aorestaon acvies on 300 ha of land. Social fencing for protecon of trees was
iniated in 29 villages. We completed 409 loose boulder structures and a further 9
gabion structures.
b. Biodiversity Documentaon and Conservaon
Peoples Biodiversity Register (PBR) were iniated in the 3 villages of Khadki
Budruk, Malegaon Pathar, and Khandgedara to address the biodiversity concerns in
WSD and other developmental acvies; to create an awareness in the community
about the importance of promong, conserving and protecng local biodiversity;
to keep a record of the local biodiversity through parcipatory mapping and
recording of the biodiversity, and to capacitate the community to address the
biodiversity concerns in the decisions taken by the local bodies.
Promoon of Climate Change Adaptaon
Maharashtra 39 villages26,062 ha.
31,852 people
Madhya Pradesh 8 villages
2,859 ha.
4,866 people
Andhra Pradesh 6 villages
4,331 ha.
14,642 people
Total 53 villages
33,252 ha.
51,360 people
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Biodiversity Teams were formed in each village and trained in maintaining PBRs and
addressing the biodiversity concerns of the village. Preliminary data was collected
and entered into the registers.
A three day Teachers Training Workshop was organized for Zilla Parishad teachers
with Bhara Vidyapeeth Instute of Environment Educaon and Research, Pune. 19
teachers from various project villages were imparted with concepts such as Climate
Science, Biodiversity Conservaon, impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity and its
consequences, need and how-to document, protect and conserve biodiversity as an
adaptaon approach to CC. These learnings enabled teachers integrate these aspects
in the day-t-day teaching in the classes and engage their students in appropriate
acon projects.
A two-day Biodiversity festival was organized in Shiswad village where more
than 15,000 people participated in the festival from the entire cluster. About17 stalls covering various aspects of climate science and adaptation to climate
Biodiversity Fesval, Shiswad village, Akole Taluka, Maharashtra
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change were established. Additionally more than 50 persons including several
SHGs also set up stalls to show their traditional wares, and exchange and trade
local goods. Local healers and artisans also set up their stalls. Local Bharudgroups and groups of Adiwasis also performed during the festival. An animal
fair of local breeds was also held. There were also extensive exhibits for various
innovations and techniques in agriculture. Several experts held sessions with
farmers and villagers on different aspects of agriculture with special emphasis on
Climate Change. During the preparatory phase various trainings were imparted
to youth groups on biodiversity, DRR concerns, Eco-tourism and climate change.
More than 45 youth from different villages actively participated in preparation
and conduct of the festival.
Balu Bhangre is a young man, who got introduced to WOTR and
its ECO course for the village youth sometime back. There he gained
exposure to issues of Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change and
soon got more and more involved in working for his village.
Most young people his age are now totally disconnected with
traditional knowledge sources of the village- like knowledge of
traditional agriculture, the jungle and traditional arts and crafts.
But Balu has gone the extra mile and collected traditional seeds of
food grains and other crops, wild vegetables and fruits and medicinal
plants; many extra miles, in fact. Due of deforestation and most people
turning to hybrid seeds and cash crops these plants have become very
rare. At times he had to travel 40 km from the village and convince
people from some really remote hamlets, who still practiced traditionalagricultural practices, to give him a sample of their seeds! As Balu
says, People thought we were quite mad, at our age, to be collecting
seeds like little children.
Balu is a meticulous collector and record keeper. He has a neat, detailed
register with records of 300-350 different ora- fauna and also of the
communitys customs and way of life. There is also a herbarium of about
30 medicinal herbs- leaves pressed into a book, with the local names and
uses of the plant. They have craft work done by local artisans, snake skins
and local sh breeds. We realised right at the beginning that there isno point only collecting samples. Social Awareness needs to be created.
This is our attempt to reconnect with our roots. Climate Change is a
reality and in order to cope with that, we need to preserve traditional
knowledge, he says wisely.
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A similar Biodiversity Fesval was celebrated in Partala village, Madhya Pradesh to
show case all aspects of CCA. Over 200 persons visited the fesval.
Clearly the impact was far-reaching: farmers, village elders, womens SHGs, NGOs,
school kids, rural youth and government ocials visited from across the state. And
clearly the message got through: that biodiversity is vital to survival; that biodiversity
embraces everything.
A capacity building programme on Climate Change Science, DRR, Biodiversity, PBR,
Eco-system Services, CASDAAT, LM3 was organized for Jabalpur RRC in Partala village
in February. A 10 day comprehensive workshop cum training for youth of 8 project
villages and Jabalpur WOTR sta was organized.
A Biodiversity Special newsleer was brought out and widely disseminated
highlighng issues, acvies, peoples stories and the Fesval.
c. Alternate and renewable energy
The objecve of the intervenon is to promote alternate and cleanenergy soluons
in the villages, and meet individual and community level cooking and lighng needs.
Solar home-lighng soluons, cooking with solar parabolic cookers, solar& wind
hybrid systems, community biogas plants, etc. are being implemented.
Field evaluaon and post implementaon product assessment were carried out for
all the Alternate Energy installaons. Short case studies based on eld assessmentswere prepared for publicaon.
Demonstraons and experiments with new models of cooking stoves and energy
ecient chullahs were conducted with encouraging response from the community
and SHGs.
WOTR is in connuous search for economically viable stove models for rural
households. Bio char briqueng systems have also been eld tested and are being
evaluated for their livelihood potenal.
Two research reports on the experiences of deploying AE were brought out:
Hot water chullahs: ndings from an assessment
Deployment of parabolic community solar cookers for mid-day-meal scheme in
rural schools
A Renewable Energy Special newsleer was brought out to highlight the issues
involved, acvies and peoples experiences.
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I am telling you from my own experience, anyone can learn how to use the solar
cooker in 15 minutes. Its that easy. I can get all my other work done while the solar
cooker does the cooking. Now I even get some me to rest in the day.- Sangita
Kadale, Pimpaldari, Akoletaluka, Ahmednagar District- Anganwaadi worker
Fuel was a big problem. We had to travel some distance for gas or kerosene
and geng it was also uncertain because of the raoning system... or we had
to go and bring wood from the forest. Now with the solar cooker, we dont need
to destroy the forest and also save on fuel costs. Food gets cooked in half the
me.- Sunita Gandhe, Pimpaldari, Ahmednagar District- Anganwaadi worker
Before, we had to light up 2 stoves to nish the cooking somemes. Now we
can nish all the cooking in me, with just one headload of rewood and getready hot water too. My kitchen is also almost smoke-free. - Vimalbai Ubale,
Kothajahagir, Jalna District
Solar parabolic cookers were installed in 19 ZP schools
solar home lights were installed in 250 households,
31 street lights were put up in hamlets and remote locations,
2 household bio gas plants
A decentralized solar-wind hybrid system was implemented at Darewadi
Training Center powering the entire electricity needs of the center.
d. Sustainable Adapve Agriculture
The year 2011-12 saw a major focus on providing inputs on organic farming. 147
demonstraons of organic pracces were taken up for farmers in all the 7 clusters.
Farmers were trained on preparaon and use of organic inputs like amrutpani,
dash parniarka,jiwamrutand dierent composng and vermi-composng
techniques.
Several lms have also been made in English and Marathi and are available on
WOTRs YouTube channel.
Parabolic Solar Cooker Promo (Marathi; 3.16mins) hp://youtu.be/EKTaDhyHyVI
Parabolic Solar Cooker Demo (Marathi; 5.52mins) hp://youtu.be/F5KT2Vk2Hjk
Hot Water Chullah (1.29mins) hp://youtu.be/wVMl8xwGQ
Greened to GO! (English; 4.08mins) hp://youtu.be/s3fuOwLmRkI
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Field demonstraons were implemented for rice, maize, sunower, onion, tomato,
wheat and groundnut in kharif, rabi and summer seasons. A package of 6 booklets on
best pracces has been prepared on various crops in 3 languages.
58 vermi-compost beds are in place covering all villages in CCA Project area.
WOTR sta was also trained in handling the demonstraon and control plots and
maintaining records for the same.
Exposure visits specically focused on agriculture acvies were organized where
farmers got inputs on how to control pest / disease within their eld, low cost
irrigaon techniques, maintain soil health by changing crop rotaon, etc. Along with
this, farmers also got insights on how to undertake farming acvies using scienc
techniques.
Farmers Field Schools (FFS) have been iniated where farmers from several villagesparcipate regularly. The eort is bring technological advances in organic and
sustainable agricultural pracces to the grassroots. It aims at achieving maximum
yield at the least cost to farmers, while also keeping in mind the long term
sustainability of their lands.
Through FFS, the community has been able to increase the producvity of their
agricultural land, signicantly reduce their expenditure on chemical ferlizers and
increase income from agriculture. A key aspect of FFS is a move towards informed
sustainability - stressing on organic ferlisers and soil health aer soil tesng with
use of appropriate soil nutrients.
Drip irrigaon for water conservaon
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A Village Service Centres/Agri Equipment Banks is established in Khadki Khurd
village of Akole cluster. This Centre provides farming equipment to farmers within
nearby villages for use at nominal charges. The Village Development Commiee
maintains the equipment and its records.
Sciensts from agriculture university (MPKV) visited CCA Project villages to
understand project area specic details to plan future collaboraon. During the visit,
sciensts resolved various queries raised by farmers in villages itself (details given in
agro-meteorology note).
Following the successful implementaon of System of Rice Intensicaon (SRI)
(http://youtu.be/sFsaN8V1WkY) - a method of culvang rice using scienc
but sustainable methods WOTR has gone on to introduce this modied method
for other crops too. Crops like maize, vegetables, groundnut, sunower etc. are
producvely grown by this method, called System of Crop Intensicaon (SCI).This is a move to promote low external inputs, increase land producvity, use of
indigenous seeds, and reduce cost of culvaon. It involves promoon of agricultural
demonstraon plots, vermi-compost pits, training farmers on beer pracces of
transplantaon, crop geometry (spaced planng), soil and manure preparaon,
correct llage operaons, seed treatment, beer sowing methods etc.
CropWAT study was conducted in Sarole Pathar village, Sangamner cluster on
onion and wheat. CropWAT is soware for the calculang water and irrigaon
requirements from exisng or new climac and crop data.
The main objecve was to study dierent irrigaon methods and ferlizer
requirements and compare their water usage and respecve yield achieved from
them. Tensiometers were installed to measure the soil moisture at root depth which
can help in deciding the frequency and extent of irrigaon required.
Constraints/challenges faced and learnings from CropWAT study:
One of the biggest challenges was the mindset of farmers who have a simple equaon
in mind, more water + ferlizers=more producon. They also tend to use all the water
they can spare. Preliminary results and experience showed that, CropWAT would be
more useful when water is really scarce and a farmer has to buy water and has access
to reliable electricity. Pracces for precision farming/water usage will then be easily
adopted. Presently, CropWAT might be more useful for planning.
e. Localized Meteorological informaon
Telemetry transfer of Automated Weather Staon (AWS) data:
Telemetry transfer from 5 AWS staons has been started. AWS data is transferred
by GPRS modems installed at respecve AWS. Currently 2 telemetry units are
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installed in Akole cluster, 3 telemetry units are installed in Pathar II cluster and 1
unit in Pathar I cluster.
Collaboraon with IMD:
WOTR and India Meteorology Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
have entered into a collaboraon wherein IMD will extend support by providing
weather forecasts (using WRF model) for WOTRs project areas, technical guidance
on installing and maintaining AWSs, train WOTR sta, and experse in relaon to
agro-meteorology. At present, NWP Centre, IMD, New Delhi has started providing
short range 3-day predicons for cluster villages of Sangamner and Akole talukas.
At present, IMD is developing a generic methodology for automac data validaon
and correcons. Once this methodology is nalized, data from all AWSs can be
transmied to IMD for making village level weather forecasts.
Collaboraon with Agriculture University:15 Agriculture Sciensts, Heads of Departments, from Mahatma Phule Krishi
Vidyapeeth (MPKV Agriculture University) visited CCA project villages in September
2011. They responded to various quesons farmers asked during the visit and invited
them for one week residenal trainings on water management and irrigaon
techniques organized by MPKV. More than 50 farmers availed this training at MPKV.
Agro-meteorology bullen:
WOTR began providing and disseminang Crop Advisories for all major crops grown
in the CCA project area from November 2011. The advisories are currently in the
form of wall-paper and are pasted in 4-5 commonly frequented, public spaces in allthe villages. The eld sta discusses the advisory contents with farmers and collects
feedback on previous advisory.
Soware development:
Software modules are currently being developed for preparing crop calendars,
detailed activities carried out at the farm, and for preparing agro-advisory
bulletins.
The module to receive and store telemetry weather data is up and running and
will eventually be linked to the WOTR website. Besides this, the module to update
o-line data received from other AWS staons is also available for eld sta to use.
Module for analysis and reports generaon is in beta release phase.
In addion to these, various other soware have been developed for web-enabled
muster payments (which have enabled wage payment to villages on a weekly basis
rather than fortnightly, as previously), HR systems and web-enabled GIS tools for
planning, data analysis, tracking and monitoring.
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f. Disaster risk reducon (DRR)
Various trainings were held for the villages of Shiswad, Khadki Budruk and Khadki
Khurd to create and foster a culture of Risk Reducon within the community. Over
65 youth and Wasundhara Sevaks (Earth Carers) were sensized to basic concepts of
Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM) and Risk Reducon, empoweringthem to understand various aspects of disaster at temporal and spaal scale. Calendars
of daily and yearly acvies of people were also discussed and put into pracce.
g. Opmized use of water
A process for mapping ground water in CCA Project villages was iniated. System
Dynamics model is being developed for understanding season-wise / annual water
usage and agriculture pracces that can be implemented by individual farmers /
group of farmers.
In addion, Wasundhara Sevaks were trained in water budgeng exercises, which
they carried out in their villages. These Water Budgets were presented in the Gram
Sabhas of 15 villages.
h. Livelihoods
Informaon about exisng livelihood opportunies in the villages have been
collected and idened. Some of the potenal livelihood acvies are seed bank,
fodder bank, rural tourism, plant nursery, goatry, backyard poultry, honey harvesng
and renewable energy.
Some of the tools such as the LM3, CASDAAT have been tested for screening
livelihoods and assessing their impacts (posive or negave) on the vulnerabilies of
the communies involved. These tools will be released in 2012.
A study on Value Chain Analysis of 3 major agriculture produce in Akole and
Sangamner blocks was carried out.
Three cluster level workshops were held with VDC members and community inuencersfor understanding the potenal, resources and opportunies of livelihoods available in
their clusters. Over 230 parcipants were acvely involved in these discussions.
Specialized skill trainings for painng and fabricaon were organized. The sessions
focused on developing the skills to generate addional non-agricultural livelihoods
for the parcipants and thus increasing their resilience in dealing with issues such as
climate change.
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i. Health Promoon
Women and childrens health promoon forms an integral part of this project. The
focus is on parcipatory growth monitoring and nutrion for the children between
0-5 years of age and anaemia detecon and reducon. Wasundhara Sevikas are
trained to assess growth (height and weight of children of 0-5 years), maintainingregisters, lling up growth charts. Awareness building exercises are taken up
regularly in concept, causes, signs and symptoms, treatment and prevenon of
anaemia, importance and demonstraon of balanced diet using locally available
food items, promoon of kitchen gardens, importance of hygiene and sanitaon for
prevenon of various diseases such as vector and water borne diseases etc.. This
cadre then takes the learnings and promotes healthy pracces in the villages.
A total of 405 kitchen gardens were developed but approximately 105 could be
sustained due to scarcity of water. Growth Monitoring of children is now an on-
going acvity and eorts are being made to involve the Gram Sabhas and create
community ownership for this acvity.
Camps for checking Haemoglobin were conducted in all the CCA project villages.
j. Social mobilizaon and gender and womens development
WOTRs Parcipatory development approach essenally is geared to garner
peoples involvement in any given process and also calls for gender inclusiveness.
Frequent contact sessions, corner meengs, Kalapathak(similar to street plays) were
conducted in all the CCA villages to build awareness and mobilize communies to
Climate Change Adaptaon.
Samyukta Mahila Samitees formaon and trainings connued during the year. In
all 157 Self Help Groups with 2,114 members now are acve in the village and
trained to handle documentaon of records, record keeping, and resolving issues/
conicts. 50 training sessions and exposure visits were conducted during the course
of the year for SHGs, SMS, and Wasundhara Sevikas. Over 1,800 women and men
parcipated in these events.
k. Gender Inclusiveness and womens empowerment
A study to understand Womens development preferences, roles and constraints
vis-a-vis Panchaya Raj Instuons and Climate Change was taken up. The study
clearly brought out that womens role in PRI needed to be improved. In order to
strengthen womens role in PRI, various other intervenons and social development
acvies have been iniated and will connue in the next year. A study on food
security of women is also in progress.
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Another key insight for us was that while most of our intervenons in womens
empowerment are focussed on women, we also need to workshops for men. This
would be essenal in improving the gender sensivity of the community as a whole
and thus improve the social fabric that binds them. A framework for this has been
prepared and acvies based on this framework are expected to be implemented in
the coming year.
l. Research Studies
The following research studies were completed:
1. A Study on traditional open field burning (Raab) practice prevailing in Akole
block of Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra in the context of climate
change and finding out perceived rationale of farmers for continuance of
the practice.
2. Integrated domesc water management project: Process documentaon and
evaluaon
3. Study on test applicaon of CROPWAT soware under eld condions of
semiarid Maharashtra (study done in Sarole Pathar village).
4. Three years project compleon report on Responsible Parenthood II submied
to Becker Cordes Foundaon
5. Assessment of Health and Responsible Parenthood Programme from
Villagers Perspective in 21 villages from Ahmednagar, Nasik and Aurangabad
region
6. Outcome Evaluaon of Haemoglobin and Growth Monitoring Intervenons of
WOTR
7. Study on womens percepon about their own hysterectomies conducted in
21 villages from Ahmednagar, Nasik and Aurangabad region.
8. Hot water chullahs: ndings from an assessment
9. Deployment of parabolic community solar cookers for mid-day-meal scheme in
rural schools
10. Checklist of ora and fauna in Akole
11. Impact Assessment Study of the Project Poverty Reducon through Community
Based Natural Resource Management for Livelihood Opportunies in Rural
Areas.
12. Study of Current Pracces of Rabi Onion Culvaon in Sarole Pathar Village,
Sangamner, Maharashtra.
13. Impact assessment study of Tyma watershed development project in Jharkhand
for NABARD (Final report submied and approved)
14. Impact Assessment study of Lolo watershed development project in Jharkhand
for NABARD (Final report submied and approved)
15. Inseron of Exogenous Development Measures on an Endogenous System: A
Case Study of the Gangewadi Water Resources Management
16. The Carbon Climax: End of Hydrocarbon Legacy- a decade of metamorphosis and
rapid change
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17. Agriculture market price uctuaons, changing livestock systems and
vulnerability connect- a case study of Mhaswandi watershed, Ahmednagar
district, Maharashtra.
18. Gender dimension of climate change adaptaon: an exploraon into the
percepons of women and the community
Research studies/papers underway:
1. Position papers on eleven thematic areas3
2. Women Role in Panchaya Raj Instuons for Climate Change Adaptaon
3. Revising impacts of completed watershed development (from data of IGWDP)
in the context of climate change adaptaon
4. Study on Eects of Climate Change on Exisng Status of Food Security
5. Understanding the implicaons of governments farm pond strategy in climate
change scenario in semi-arid regions in Maharashtra
6. Situaon analysis of mental health care services in its relaon to climate change7. Changing cropping pracces ofkharifand rabicrops in Akole
8. Possible uses for lantana in Akole
9. Indicaons of climate change with regard to ora and fauna
10. Baseline Reports of CCA extension project: 10 villages in Maharashtra, 9 in
Madhya Pradesh and 6 in Andhra Pradesh
Research study published
Watershed development and Livestock rearing Experiences and Learnings from
the Watershed Organisaon Trust , Maharashtra , India - in collaboraon with SouthAsia Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Programme (www.sapplpp.org)
m. Knowledge Management and Disseminaon
In addion to the above research studies, 20 short lms were produced as part of
our eorts to increase audio-visual documentaon and disseminaon. Some of the
key ones are:
Seminars and Workshops
Conducng of seminars / workshops
Four sponsored training events covering 92 parcipants and one internaonal
training event covering about 16 parcipants were conducted during the course of
3 1. Climate Change, Eco-Systems and Watershed Development 2. Biodiversity and Adaptaon to Climate Change3. Food and Nutrional Security and Climate Change: Strategies for a Sustainable Future 4. Energy, Developmentand Climate Change: Striking a Balance 5. Livestock Systems, Vulnerability and Adaptaon to Climate Change:Evidence from Grassroots 6. Localised Economies A Response to Globalizaon and Climate Change 7. Revising
Water and Watershed Approach to Adapt to Climate Change 8. Disaster Risk Reducon: A Response for Adaptaonto Climate Change 9. Gendering Climate Change 10. Local Governance, Communies and Climate Change11. Agriculture in Changing Climate Scenario.
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the year. This South-South knowledge exchange workshop had parcipants from
Cuba, Madagascar and Nepal leading to some very useful exchanges of insights in
carrying out natural resource management/watershed development across dierent
agro-climac zones.
n. Workshops and Trainings
With regard to sta training and capacity building, employees of the organizaon
took part in 9 events covering topics such as Backyard poultry, Vulnerability
Assessment, Kaizen methodology, soware usage for muster entry, weather data
handling and transformaon training, and other technical training sessions.
Work with policy implicaons:
Grass roots to policy conferences on Climate Change Adaptaon conducted by
WOTR in 2010, 2011, and 2012
Parcipated in Naonal Policy Dialogue on Climate Change organized by theSwaminathan Foundaon
Parcipated in Pre-Budget Consultaons at the invitaon of the Finance Minister
of the Govt. of India
Appointed Member of the Working Group on Minor Irrigaon and Watershed
Management for the formulaon of the Twelh Five Year Plan
Member of group advising government of Maharashtra regarding formulang
policy on farm ponds
Title of lm Language Duraon Youtube link
Parabolic Solar Cooker Promo Marathi 3.16 hp://youtube/EKTaDhyHyVI
Parabolic Solar Cooker Demo Marathi 5.52 hp://youtube/F5KT2Vk2Hjk
Hot Water chullha - 1.29 hp://youtube/wVMl8xwGQ
Nature RestoredLives Renewed - 3.24 hp://youtube/Qbd5cqAOXWEGreened to GO English 4.08 hp://youtube/s3fuOwLmRkI
Adapve Sustainable Agriculture SRI English 7.06 hp://youtube/sFsaN8V1WkY
Does it ever rain at this me? English 4.27 hp://youtube/oix3rXQyHO4
Saechiwad A village transformed English 5.38 hp://youtube/FKY0LnsahiI
Saechiwadi Prashan Sutala E & M 5.40 hp://youtube/iAWvmrMRhmU
Shiswad Nisarg Utsav Prep - 1.07 hp://youtube/CpxtGiw1aNU
Shiswad Nisarg Utsav Stalls - 1.25 hp://youtube/tJDQ4ERM_mI
Birds of Akole - 4.03 hp://youtube/MHCh1KPB09k
Sounds of Shiswad Marathi 12 min hp://youtube/8GO8fWhm0n4
Climate Change: Challenges English hp://youtube/f83xVhXHRl4
Climate Change: Soluons English hp://youtube/qNwDzg3thaE
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Member of the Expert Group set up by the Ministry of Rural Development,
Govt. of India to design suitable convergence models for implementaon of the
Naonal Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on a watershed
basis.
This has been a crucial phase for the project because it was in this year that weactually began grounding the project. We moved from the conceptualizaon and
planning phase to implementaon. There have been plenty of insights from even
these early experiences of implementaon. Some of these are being shared in a
Naonal Colloquium being organized in Pune on the 5th and 6th of June, 2012. The
discussions from this Colloquium and comments of experts in the eld who will be
parcipang will be of great value for us in sharpening our strategies to make our
iniave more successful.
Drinking Water and Sanitatin
WOTRs involvement with Water has always focused on its scarcity and so it is with
our Drinking Water projects. They focus on availability of good quality Water for all,
drudgery reducon for women and children, addressing water contaminaon that
leads to ill-health, etc. It also connects with the sanitaon program as the sanitary
condions in a village impact water quality directly.
The projects include acvies such as construcon of new wells, repairs of exisng
drinking water schemes, laying pipelines, hand pump installaons, tap connecons,
and trainings and capacity building ofPani Sami(water commiee).
Drinking Water provisioning has been carried out in 7 villages/hamlets.
The School Water and Sanitaon Project, carried out in 23 villages/66 schools,
addresses the core need as well the issues of drinking water, sanitaon and
hygiene in primary and the Pre-primary schools. Pre-primary and primary
schools have been selected and the students of these schools are imbibed with
the messages of importance and pracces of health and hygiene, which they in
turn disseminate to their homes and communies. The school children are also
taught to get involved in the acvies like regular cleaning toilet units, watering
the plants/trees and school garden, cleaning of the school campus etc. This has
developed a sense of ownership among the students. The schools authories
have appreciated the coordinated eorts of WOTR, involving the schools, Gram
Panchayat, Village Development Commiees, Village Educaon Commiees,
parents and community as a whole.
The other acvies conducted under the project were construcon of water supply
system to the school, drainage of waste water, solid waste management (vermi and
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organic composng), construcon of sanitaon
blocks, water management and sanitaon
educaon, awareness campaigns and workshops
for all the villages and schools / anganwadis
(kindergartens), and cluster level workshops for
school teachers and community members.
While our drinking water projects do intervene
in distribuon, water use and quality, they
also simultaneously and primarily address the
strengthening its availability at the source.
Under the Climate Change Adaptaon lens,
Water Meters-Drinking Water & Sanitaon Project - Chivadipada
addressing water scarcity is one of the major issues, more so going beyond its
availability for agricultural use, contaminaon, and sanitaon. One of the major
eorts is to consciousness building about the visible and invisible, overt and non-
overt links and connecons between dierent issues, and addressing adapve
capacity of communies.
Impacts
Since the enre village community, especially all the women from each family
were acvely involved in the drinking water and construcon of toilet acvies,
there has been a great impact on the judicious use of water, drinking water
puricaon at house level, good pracces of health and hygiene, and cleanliness
in the house and surroundings.
The construcon of water supply system and drainage of wastewater has made
the schools self-sucient. The stress and drudgery to fetch water for drinking
purpose has been reduced. Provision of potable water has greatly reduced water
borne diseases. The waste water is ulized for watering of plants/ gardening
purpose.
Due to construcon of the vermi and organic composng pits, the cleanliness of
the school campus and surroundings has improved. The school children collect
waste, garbage, bio-mass from the surroundings and school campus as a part
of their curriculum and deposit it in the vermi compost and organic composng
units. The manure from these units is used for the school garden.
The surplus manure was sold with a view to generate money for the school
maintenance fund. The praccal experience of recycling the waste biomass
into the producve purpose has encouraged the students to replicate the same
at their homes. Thus, this has created a learning plaorm to maintain clean
surroundings and environment.
Since the children use the toilets during the school mings, this has resulted
to keep the surroundings clean. Intesnal infecons are reduced and privacy
aorded to girl students.
The overall impact is that the students have learnt and developed hygienic habits
and use the same at home too.
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Water management & sanitaon educaon:The structures created in projects
are well operated and maintained by the school children and school authories.
The school children are promong best sanitaon pracces at home too. The
students have now become the change agents through the awareness acvies like
explanaon of posters, sensizaon meengs etc.
The concept of water budgeng is now well understood by the community and
is successfully applied in their villages. The water budgeng chart is prepared
by Jal Sevaks and displayed in the oce of the VDC. It informs about the total
water availability, water required for the domesc and drinking purpose including
livestock, water required for crops, and available balance of the ground water.
The coordinaon with the primary school teachers in all villages has helped
increase their support. In four villages the school teacher with the support of the
local Gram Panchayat and Village Educaon Commiees have taken pro-acve
role to get the Govt. funds for the construcon of school toilet units and urinals.
The high water consuming crops such as sugarcane, banana, grapes etc. are not
grown in the village. The ban on irrigaon bore wells is strictly observed by the
community, and no new bore wells are drilled in the village. The drip/sprinkler
irrigaon systems are installed by the farmers through their iniaves.
Renewable Energy
Based on our arguments in favour of reducing our reliance on mainstream energy,
as well the cauon with which we approach renewable energy technology, we, at
WOTR, have taken a two-pronged stand that our priority would be (i) decentralizedsteps to meet energy needs, and (ii) to increase eciencies of exisng systems
where possible.
We also believe that unless there is a signicant immediate, tangible benet for
all the extra eorts or costs that the rural communies might have to incur, rural
communies would (and rightly so) see no reason to make any change. Keeping this
in mind, WOTR has taken up several intervenons with dierent movaons and
dierent pay-os:
Intervenon Movaon for people to adopt Climate Change/Energy Impact
Biogas Indoor air quality, Womens health GHG (methane) reducon
Hot Water Chulhas Indoor air quality, Womens
health, Drudgery Reducon
Forest protecon, GHG reducon
Solar Parabolics Fuelwood savings leading to fewer
trees being cut
Forest protecon, GHG reducon
Solar homelights Unreliable state electricity supply Much more energy ecient;GHG
reducon
Solar street lights Safer and beer quality of life Lower carbon foot-print over life of
product;GHG reducon
Watershed development,Sustainable Agricultural
services
Sustainable eco-systems Lower ferlizer usage, water andenergy for irrigaon, GHG reducon
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Yet, there are many cases where there is an urgent demand for improving
efficiencies or introducing cleaner fuels. The motivation for these changes may
not necessarily be related to CO2
levels in the atmosphere. However, the
climate change angle is definitely an added benefit. Approaching our project
with this slightly altered lens has been our strategy and we call it adaptation
through mitigation.
We also believe that long term adaptaon is not possible without migaon, but it
is important to realize that along with basic developmental work, there is bound to
be a short term increase in the communitys ecological footprint before longer term
migaon can happen. From the beginning our movaons besides migaon,
also had other immediate and tangible benets for the rural people: Womens
health, reduced drudgery, fuelwood savings leading to fewer trees being cut, reliable
supply for homes, as well as for irrigaon, improved quality of life, livelihoods, and
decreased dependency.
WOTR has installed 19 Solar Parabolic Cookers in rural schools, 547 home-lighng
systems, 31 street lighng systems, and 476 Hot Water chullahs in the year 2010-
2011, has been also been involved in idenfying issues, maintenance of these
systems and in training and capacity building of local communies in maintaining
these systems.
A 5KW Solar Wind Hybrid System installed at Darewadi Training Center for
electricity supply along with use of LEDs which have reduced the lighting load by
up to 90%.
Wmens Empwerment
Drudgery Reducon and Addressing Basic Amenies, and improving Quality of Life
Women being an important stakeholder in any natural resource management
project are one of WOTRs priority focus areas. WOTR has a clear focus on and
gives emphasis to building up their social capital and management capabilies.
WOTR facilitates their empowerment by organising them into solidarity groups
(SHGs), building capacity to address their and their childrens concerns through
health services and providing personal care advisories, and literacy, numeracy and
personality development training. It also acvely engages men in assisng women
to secure their entlements as well as creang avenues for eecve representaon
in the decision-making bodies of the village. Addionally, sister instuons of WOTR
help them acquire livelihood and life skills. This is done by providing them with
nancial and business development support to start and successfully manage micro-
enterprises, creang avenues of access to micro-insurance and providing ecient
green cooking and home lighng systems and provisioning drinking water and
sanitaon that address womens concerns.
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WOTR iniates and implements various development acvies that not only
enhance their economic status but also reduces drudgery and burden. The Samyukta
Mahila Sami (SMS), the federaon of all SHGs at the village level, gives them a
space and voice at the village level. The Village Development Commiees (VDCs)
have an acve representaon of women (40-45%).
In most of the project villages, the SMS utilize the womens development
funds allotted to the project and use it for the womens development activities
especially for group and individual income generation or livelihood activities
through revolving funds. Similarly, in most of the project villages, financial
support is provided for livelihood and income generation activities through VDCs
under the separate revolving fund. In all villages the utilization and operation/
functioning of the activity is monitored by the VDC and SMS on regular basis.
Gender under Climate lensSince the impacts of Climate Change are not the same and diers from developed to
developing countries, from rich to poor, from man to woman, men and women face
their social, economic and environmental reality dierently. How they parcipate is
also dierent and is closely related to age, socio-economic class, caste and culture.
Men and women, because of their gender, face dierent situaons that oblige them
to acquire dierent capacies and knowledge while they also have dierent needs
and interests. An approach that considers onlythe situaon of women, thus we
believe, will not bring about the desired transformaon.
The disadvantages of women, who have historically had limited access to resources,
restricted rights and lile voice in decision-making, make them extremely vulnerable
to climate change. Women are also vulnerable not because they are naturally
weaker, but because they face dierent condions of vulnerability than men. They
oen live in condions of social exclusion, with cultural limitaons to mobility
outside their immediate environment; have less access to informaon of early
warning systems in mes of disasters, and to forecasts of climate variability.
Under these condions it is important to recognise that women are more vulnerable
in climate change driven scenarios; understand and address gender-specic naturalresource use paern; idenfy womens parcular skills and capacies that lend
themselves to migaon and adaptaon; increase womens parcipaon in decision
making at all levels in climate change migaon and adaptaon.
Health & Nutritin
WOTRs intervenons in Health have been in several areas:
1. Taking 2 indicators - Childrens Growth and Haemoglobin levels - to understand
the nutrional status of the community and communicate it to them so they can
take the required measures
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2. Seng up a cadre of Health workers and their capacity building to intervene in
the community
3. Facilitang intervenons that address Nutrional security in community at the
family level as well as at individual levels with women and children
4. Awareness building on nutrion, sex educaon with adolescents
5. Connecng with local instuons -Anganwadis (for children under 5 years
of age) and Primary Health Centre to carry out health intervenons at an
instuonal level
6. Research & Studies that provide insights into health and nutrion issues
Highlights of annual achievements
The acvity is being carried out in all on-going WOTR-SIED implemented watershed
projects in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
The overall experience of this iniave has been a posive one and posive changes
have taken place and results are there to see. An important impact is in the change
in peoples atude as shown by a greater concern for health, especially women and
children. Villagers, especially poor women, men and adolescents now have access
to informaon on health issues and take special care of their families with respect
to nutrion and hygiene. The people have a beer understanding and have realized
that health informaon and care is a lasng asset.
Soware on Growth Monitoring has been developed based on the World Health
Organizaon Growth Monitoring Charts.
Informaon, Educaon and Communicaon (IEC) material (books and posters) has
been published in Marathi and wrien in simple text which can be easily understood
by the villagers. This has been disseminated in the project villages and is used as
training modules too. 13 booklets on dierent health issues (aboron, Family Planning,
registraon of birth and death child care, pre and post natal care, etc.) have been
published. 10 educave posters (anaemia, use of toilets, personal hygiene, girl child,
safe drinking water, and importance of kitchen gardens, cleanliness of surrounding
environment, healthy baby and adolescents) have been made.
Taking a Climate perspecve
Climate variability combined with economic volality and depleng ecosystem
are expected to put tremendous stresses on the community. WOTRs watershed
intervenons ll date have addressed stabilizing and strengthening the ecosystem
which communies live in. Under the climate lens WOTR seeks to understand the
adapve capacity of the communies to the combined overt and insidious stresses
and intervene at the Household level where necessary. This has meant looking at
food and nutrion security that looks at the food grown and eaten, in agriculture to
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encourage growing and consumpon of local foods and tradional, locally adapted
hardy grains that are highly nutrive, and new vector-borne diseases that are likely
to emerge due to rising temperatures.
WOTR has in the last year begun to involve itself in Mental Health - understanding
the issues, stresses, and triggers and addressing these by going beyond mere
psychiatric help to strengthening the social fabric and relaonships by stabilising
the resource base. The intervenons promote key livelihoods that can decrease the
pressures and stresses of agriculture dependent local economies.
Cmmunity Managed Rural Turism
This venture has been iniated with an idea of making the regenerated watersheds
a source of livelihoods for the people in the community. The once barren areas now
regenerated become excellent and interesng places to visit for enjoyment as well
as developing an understanding of the rural areas and their issues. At the same me,
it also becomes a means for local people to earn a livelihood by managing tourism
while protecng and preserving their culture, tradion, and environment.
The uniqueness about this iniave is that this is a community driven enterprise and
the tribal and other rural