Uttarakhand - Department of Land Resources

financial autonomy in implementing the project. These empowered committees
would plan and implement and monitor the plan at the Gram Panchayat level.
3. Social mobilization: The project functionaries will have shift in roles from
controller and regulators to facilitators. For this purpose professional team
including voluntary organization would be selected for social mobilization,
community organization. Capacity building of communities shall be done for
planning and implementing the project.
4. Community Participation: All the stakeholders would be involved in planning,
budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the projects. To inculcate sense of
ownership amongst the stakeholder’s community contribution in the form of water
development fund would be there to ensure the sustainability after the withdrawal
of the project. The project would give special emphasis on the vulnerable groups
of the community.
The main project components would be:
a) Participatory Watershed Development and Management
b) Enhancing Livelihood Opportunities
c) Institutional Strengthening
a. Participatory Watershed Development and Management :
Promotion of Social Mobilization and Community Driven Decision Making
Natural Resource Management
b. Enhancing Livelihood Opportunities :
Farming System Improvement
Income Generating Activities for the SHGs
Value Addition and Marketing Support
c. Institutional Strengthening
Capacity Building of Gram Panchayat, Watershed Committees
Information, Education and Communication
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning System
Within these components the following activities would be undertaken: