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Key Supporting Studies
Complementary Studies
 Team has secured $235,000 in trust funds from Bank’s
internal forestry anchor unit (PROFOR)
 Designed to finance complementary studies to normal
preparation work
 Concept discussed and agreed by DoLR team prior to
submission
 Can be completed over next 18 months, but needs to
be done at a quicker pace to be really useful to the
Neeranchal preparation/implementation process
Three Study Components
1. Review of landscape level watershed assessment
and/or planning processes, develop draft guidelines
2. Institutional review of IWMP, convergence
3. Dissemination of watershed best practices in India
Larger Scale Assessment/Planning
 Watershed planning in India typically at scale of
micro-watershed, often around 500 ha, sometimes
clustered into a larger sub-watershed
 Starting from this scale ideal for community planning
but prevents stakeholders from seeing the bigger
picture:
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Basic hydrology, land and water uses, interactions
Guide micro-watershed selection, interventions
Guide major investments in water control
Support broader sustainable land management
 Need to explore larger scale approach in Neeranchal
Seeing The Bigger Picture
Micro-Watershed
at field level
Critical to link
micro-watershed
plans with higherlevel watershed
analyses or plans
Sub-Watershed
Sub-Basin
Basin
Proposed Outputs/Benefits
 Help stakeholders better understand options for
landscape level watershed planning based on
examples from within India and other experiences
from outside India
 Develop methodology for landscape level watershed
assessment/planning with key stakeholders
 Transform the methodology into practical guidelines
that could be used in Neeranchal
 Audience would be practitioners, policy makers
Proposed Approach
 Led by small team of national consultants, supported
by international consultants
 Work would be guided by Bank and DoLR, relevant
state watershed agencies
 Workshops at critical points, bringing in speakers
from other regions where best practices are found
 Technical report, draft guidelines, review process,
formulating final documents, dissemination
Institutional Study of IWMP
 IWMP has a number of implementation issues and
constraints
 Convergence/integration adds complexities
 Need to delve into how IMWP delivery and
convergence/integration can be improved, based on
good practices in India and similar programs in other
countries
Proposed Outputs/Benefits
 Methodology that could be replicated elsewhere
 Better understanding of IWMP institutional issues
and constraints
 Valuable information to preparation and/or
implementation of Neeranchal
 Information that could be useful in other countries
facing similar issues with national watershed
programs
Proposed Approach
 Desk study with national consultants, in collaboration
with international specialists
 Field work in selected states to study IWMP in action
 Build on study carried out in Karnataka during
preparation of new project (main focus was on
NREGA)
 Workshops drawing in national and international
experts
 Report, dissemination
Best Practices in Watershed
Management in India
 Need to improve knowledge sharing in support of
Neeranchal preparation
 Publish draft report from Bank on best practices from
three state level Bank-supported practices
 Collate best practices in key areas from non-Bank
projects in India
 Knowledge fairs, workshops
Discussion Questions
What scale would be realistic in your state for
landscape level watershed assessment and/or
planning?
2. What issues/problems could a larger scale watershed
assessment help you address?
3. For IWMP, which states would be best suited for field
studies to examine performance and convergence,
particularly with best practices, success stories?
4. What is the level of interest in knowledge sharing
fairs, workshops, community of practices, etc?
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