Operationalize the Project
Activities into Action
PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES
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Preliminary activities are those which are required to
be accomplished for launching the watershed project.
PRILIMINARY ACTIVITIES
PROJECT INITIATION
• Publicity
• Selection of villages
Appointment of PIA WDT
Awareness building
Community Organization
PREPARATORY ACTIVITY
To build report and gain the confidence of people
and community, initiate EPA with consensus of
community.
PREPARTORY ACTIVITIES
Placement of staff
•Appointment of WDT
Funding
•Opening of account
•Release of funds
•Maintenance of
account
Rappo building
•Establishing Relationship
•Confidence building.
•Programme awareness
Community Organization
•Formation of SHG
•Formation of U.G
•Formation of W.C
•Nomination of W.C President
•Appointing of Secretary
•Opening of W.C office
Bank account
• Project Account
• WDF account
WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT TEAM
WDT is an integrated part of PIA and will set up by PIA.WDT will carry the duties
and responsible of PIA in a particular watershed.
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Multi-disciplinary team.
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Agriculture.
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Soil Science.
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Water Management.
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Social Mobilization.
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Institutional building
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Preferably trained and experienced in respective discipline.
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Practical field experience in working of rural area.
Action
Process
Who should
do it
Appointment of WDT
Conducting interview on given date,time and given
place.
Selecting five candidates as per discipline.
Issuing offer of appointment .
Executing the contractual agreement ith WDT.
Nominating on member as team leader WDT.
Intimating date of reporting of all WDT members to
DRDA.
Deputing WDT for training.
PIA
 Opening SB account in local branch of Bank.
 Intimating SB account number to DRDA with request
to release of fund as per component wise breakup.
Releasing the fund.
Opening of Account books.
PIA
PIA
FUNDING
Rappo Building
Visiting village frequently .
 Making night halt in village for closer contact.
 Conducting regular meeting.
 Announcing in open meeting funding pattern.
 Participating in social and cultural events.
 Sharing about village problems and helping to solve
them.
PIA
PIA
PIA
DRDA
PIA
PIA,WDT
From
previous page
Confidence building
Identifying the felt need though PRA
PIA/WDT
Social mapping during PRA execution.
 Identifying most wanted activities of community forEPA through
consensus for the benefits .
 Finalizing sites, location for EPA .
 Preparing work plan & estimate.
 Getting the work of EPA executed by involving community .
Making payment of works for EPA.
Programme
Awareness
Village meeting.
Folk song & dramas.
 Awareness camp.
 Exposure visits.
 Through printed material in local
language.
 Display of poster.
Wall writing
PIA/WDT
Community
organization
 Fixing the time and date of meeting.
 Informing the community about meeting.
 Conducting the meeting.
 Listing out NLB (Non Land based livelihood) acivities.
Identifying existing/possible SHG’s.
 Discussing with existing groups of SHG about objective, origin
membership funding and functioning of the group.
 Finalizing SHG member with consensus.
 Identifying possible users group and their members with
consensus.
 Exposing SHG member with functioning of successful credit and
thrift group.
PIA/WDT
STRUCTURE OF WATERSHED COMMITTEE
Category
Member
Representative from Users group
5
Representative from SHG
4
Representative from SC/ST
1
Women Representative
1
WDT Member
1
NB: Member from SC/ST should be women or Landless person
Formation of W.C
Calling general body meeting of Gram
Sabha.
• Explaining purpose of W.C its
structure, role and responsibility to
gram sabha.
• U.G/SHG will nominate the member
of
W.C.
• Chairman of W.C.
• Registration of W.C under Society
Registration Act.
WDT
Appointment of
watershed Secretary
• Calling application from water shed
W.C
Appointment of
Volunteers
• Selecting SC/ST women and general
U.G/SHG
Leader
Gram Sabha
WDT
area.
• Appointment of deserving candidates
as watershed Secretary.
categories who know to read and write
from watershed area in consultation
with WDT.
• Appointing selected person as
volunteers
W.C
OFFICE BEARER & STAFF OF WATERSHED
COMMITTE
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Chairman
Secretary
Volunteers
Watershed Committee.
Watershed Committee.
Watershed Committee
Opening of Office of
W.C
Providing office accommodation for office to
W.C
G.P
Bank Account
Project Account
Opening S.B joint account in local in bank.
Collecting the pass book and cheque book
from bank
Chairman WC &
team leader
WDT
Secretary
WDF Account
Opening another account in the name of WDF
Sarpanch &
Member SHG
nominate by
Gram Sabha.
CAPACITY BUILDING
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HAVE YOU COMPLETED
Appointed WDT and deputed WDT for training.
Conducted awareness programme.
Conducted PRA exercise
Formed SHG,UG,WC.
Registered W.C.
Appointed watershed Secretary and Volunteers.
Opened Bank account (PIA& W.C).
Received funds
WHY TO BUILT CAPACITY BUILDING
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Watershed Project is Technical and Social in nature.
Required trained managers and workers for planning and
implementation:
Technical skill for Scientific Planning, Proper implementation and
social knowledge for community organization, as well as managerial
Capability and capacity among the managers and workers are to be
imparted successfully through training.
Capacity Building
Managers
PIA
Workers
WDT
SHG
UG
WC
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF INSTITUTION
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Fully equipped class rooms.
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Boarding and lodging facilities.
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Facilities for field study.
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Transport facilities.
Training of PIA &
WDT
Training of
SHG,UG and WC,
Secretary &
Voluntaries
• Assessing training needs.
• Identifying training institutions at State /District Level.
• Identifying faculty /resource person.
• Preparing training roster.
• Finalizing training module and contents duration and time table for different
categories of officials, keeping in view the role and responsibility.
• Preparing training material.
• Approving budget estimate for training.
• Release of funds to training institution.
• Conducting training as per approved schedule.
• Collecting opinion of trainers on training contents
DRDA/DWDU
• Assessing training needs and requirements.
• Finalizing training modules and contents keeping in view their role and
responsibility.
• Identifying training institutions .
• Preparing budget estimate and obtaining approval in DWDU meeting.
• Finalizing training schedule, resource person, reading material in local
language.
• Conducting training as per schedule.
PIA,WDT
Training institutions
Training institutions
DRDA/PIA
Training institutions
Training Methodology
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Lecture cum discussion session.
Brain storming session.
Problem solving exercise.
Group assignment and presentation.
Use of audio visual aid.
Field Visit.
Capacity Building in Watershed Development Programme Coverage
/Contents for PIA
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Concept of watershed development.
Watershed guidelines.
Need for water resource management.
Community organization.
Extension method.
Financial management.
Watershed programme and PRI.
PRA.
Formation of village level institutions.
Role & responsibilities.
M&E
Engineering survey.
Treatment measures.
Duration- One week including exposure visits.
COVERAGE & CONTENTS FOR WDT
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Watershed concept and approach.
Method, techniques of identification field verification of micro watershed.
Watershed guidelines.
N.R.M
Soil & co water conservation.
Watershed treatment measures.
Appropriate cropping pattern relevant to livelihood in watershed development .
Horticulture, Agro forestry, farm forestry relevant to livelihood in watershed development.
Dairy farming.
Sericulture.
PRA.
Planning for participatory watershed development-issue, step and techniques.
Preparation of watershed project plan and action plan.
Implementation of activities under watershed development programme, issue and techniques.
Development programme in watershed and convergence of development programme.
Extension methods.
Community organization.
- Leadership building for village development
- Group dynamic and group process.
- Conflict / problem solving.
Management Techniques.
- Administrative procedure and report writing.
- Financial Management.
- Preparation of Budget estimate.
- Accounting Procedure.
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Self help Group
Various possible activities in detail which could be operational zed.
Watershed
Committee
3 days
• Concept of watershed.
• watershed approach.
• Watershed Common Guidelines.
• Role & Responsibilities.
• Participating Approach.
• Formation of SHG UG,WC.
• NRM
• Funds under project.
• Organizational structure under watershed
Management.
• Role of Gram Panchayat in watershed
Management.
• Treatment measures in watershed development.
• Public Mobilization.
• Office Management.
• Formation of Watershed Plan and action plan.
• Plan execution.
• Budget estimate.
• Check measurement.
• Financial managers.
• Accounting procedure.
•Funding to SHG,UG.
• Improved Agriculture farming
Hsssdsdes
Watershed
one week +
Secretary
exercise
•Concept of watershed.
• watershed approach.
• Awareness ommon guidelines.
•Role and responsibility.
• Participatory approach.
• formation of SHG,UG.
•Awareness of NRM.
•Funding procedure.
• Organizational structure under watershed
Management.
• Awareness of treatment measures.
• Office management.
• Formation of watershed plan & action plan.
• Financial management.
•Accounting proedure.
• Functioning of SHG,UG.
•Improved agricultural farming
Users Group
-Concept of watershed and guidelines.
- Soil & Water conversation.
- Natural resource management & their use.
- Watershed treatment measures.
- Group work and integrated approach.
- Role, responsibility & functions of UG.
- Crop production techniques.
SHG
-Sharing of benefits.
- Management of CPR.
- Role and responsibility of SHG.
- Thrift and credit activities.
- Revolving funds.
- Marketing & Linkage.
- Maintenance of accounts.
PLANNING PROCESS
Have you trained
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WDT MEMBER.
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W.C, SHG, UG.
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Watershed Secretary.
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Volunteers
Watershed development project aim at conservation, development and optimum use of natural
resource for increasing the production and up liftmen of Socio-economic status of rural
community on sustainable basis. To realization of about call for preparation of development plan
and action plan with active participation of watershed committee
Planning Activities.
FAMILIARISTION PLAN
PREPARATION PLAN
•Meeting of Gram Sabha.
• Meeting of W.C
• Collection of information.
• Conducting of PRA.
•Resource appraisal
• Suggestion & Sollution
• Treatment Plan.
• Production Plan.
• Livelihood Plan.
• Compilation Plan.
• Annual action plan
Approval of plan .
Appraisal of project
and annual action plan]
• Submission of Plan.
• Plan approval.
• Release of fund
Familiarization of
Plan
Conducting PRA
Meeting of W.C.
• Fixing date, time and place for W.C meeting in consultation
with W.C and G.P
• Informing village community abut meeting.
• Conducting meeting of W.C to make them aware about
• Type of Plan to be prepare.
• Role in preparing Plan :
Collection of Information:
• Copy of Revenue map.
• Population with male and female SC & ST.
• Livestock Population.
• Existing Land use particulars.
• Crops and yield
• Details of Cultivators.
• Top sheet of watershed
WDT
Preparing of PRA
• Social Mapping.
• Resource Mapping.
• Time line.
• Matrix Ranking
Gram Sabha WDT
Watershed
Secretary
PIA/WDT
WDT
WDT
Resources
Appraisal
• Identifying and recording the resources and social problerm
,potential and constrains .
• Identifying and prioritizing solutions opportunities and need
related to:
-Rainfall
- Land
- Vegetarian (forest- grasses)
- Agriculture
- Horticulture & Commercial crops.
- Livestock
• Studying the existing situations of:
-Crop and production level.
- Employment level & opportunity .
- House hold industry.
-SHG and their activities
- Convergence of services with NAREGA.
Sugestion &
Sollutions
• Finding solutions for identifying problem by discussing with
Gram Sabha,SHG& U.G.
• Suggestion for harnessing the available potential and
fulfilling the felt need.
• Facilitating the technical feasibility.
• Organizing visits of SHG,U.G and W.C to research centre
and developed watershed.
• Recording all important observation
WDT/WC
WDT,W.C
WDT
WDT
Secretary
Preparation of
Plan
Treatment
Plan
Visiting Individual - Private land, common land and drainage area:
• Deciding th treatment for development of land, water, vegetation etc.
• Identifying locatin and marking on map.
• Preparing plan estimate structures and time shedule.
U.G,W.C,
WDC
UG,WC,WDT
Engineer
WDT
Production
Plan
• Identifying exiting and possible farming system.
• Deciding type of production/ cropping system.
• Deciding the package of practices.
• Preparation of production plan with cost estimate.
• Making arrangement for procurement and supply of inputs.
• Establishing community nursery on CPR through SHG for future
requirement.
UG
WDT
LH Plan
Identifying viable IGA
-Resource Based
- Skill based
- Processing
- Infrastructure and service
• Preparing detailed proposal of activities selected by SHG.
• Submitting proposal to PIA through W.C for financial assistance
• Collecting individual, group and community plan
SHG,WC,
WDT
Compilation
of plan
• Reviewing the collected plan.
• Identifying the priority of works.
• Preparing a consolidation plan of watershed including
Budget and time schedule.
WDT
Annual action
plan
• Identifying activities, work to be taken on priority for
year wise implementation as per budget.
• Work out detail and cost.
• Demarcation of works activities on watershed map
WC WDT
Approval of
Plan
• Calling meeting of Gram Sabha in consultation with
W.C
• Initinating date time and place of meeting
• Presenting plan and annual action plan
• Discussing various item and seek suggestion.
• Noting the Suggestions.
• Passing resolution for approval with accepted
suggestions.
• Preparing final plan with suggestion
WDT
W.C Secretary
WC WDT
WC WDT
Secretary
WC
WC WDT
WDT
WC WDT