Fundamental of Watershed Management

Fundamental of Watershed Management

1 Introduction to Watershed Management

  1. Definition of Watershed
  2. Watershed Management
  3. Need of Watershed Management
  4. Focus of Watershed Management
  5. Concept of Watershed Management
  6. Benefits of Watershed Management
  7. Objectives of Watershed Management
  8. Principles of Watershed Management
  9. History and Evolution of Watershed Management
  10. Watershed Development in India
  11. Guidelines for Watershed Programmes
  12. Watershed Management Action Plan

2 Concept, Scope and Importance of Watershed Management

  1. Why Watershed?
  2. Components of Watershed Management
  3. Watershed Characteristics
  4. Criteria for Selection of Watersheds
  5. Integrated Watershed Management
  6. Institutional Arrangement

3 Design of Watershed Projects

  1. Role of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS)
  2. Selection of Watershed
  3. Watershed Prioritization
  4. Coding of Watersheds
  5. Administrative Support
  6. Sharing of Common Property Resources for Equitable Distribution of Benefits
  7. Development of Watershed Management Work Plan
  8. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) Exercise
  9. People’s Participation
  10. Role of Women in Watershed Management
  11. Self Help Groups (SHGs)

4 Operational Guidelines

  1. Guiding Principles
  2. Organisational Support
  3. Institutional Arrangements at National Level
  4. Institutional Arrangements at State Level
  5. Institutional Arrangements at District Level
  6. Institutional Arrangements at Project Level
  7. Institutional Arrangements at Village Level and People’s Participation

5 Community Organization

  1. Social Mobilization
  2. Importance of Social Mobilization in a Watershed
  3. Community Mobilization
  4. Process of Community Organization
  5. Organizing the Activities
  6. Mutual Trust
  7. Role of NGOs in Community Organization
  8. Why Community Organization Fails?
  9. Entry Point Work
  10. Training of Stakeholders
  11. Gender and Equity
  12. Income Generating Activities
  13. Social Development
  14. Benchmark Survey for Watershed Management
  15. Role of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in Community Organization

6 Indicators of Success

  1. Importance of Indicators
  2. Quality of Good Indicators
  3. Cause and Effect Relationship
  4. Resource Constraints for Selection of Indicators
  5. Physical Indicators
  6. Natural Resource Indicators
  7. Socio-Economic Indicators
  8. Human Indicators
  9. Economic and Financial Indicators

7 Watershed Management Activities

  1. Year Wise Activities to be Undertaken
  2. Low Cost and Easily Adoptable Activities in Various Government Programmes
  3. Convergence of Other Government Programmes
  4. Exit Protocol
  5. Use of Information Technology in Watershed Management