The Western dry lands of India
Freshwater water is a key natural resource within the dry lands of western India. Watershed development projects have been numerous and have had different levels of success. However, success is a vague term and in order to understand whether or not a development project has been successful or not we first have to define what it meant by success from a biological, social and economic standpoint. Success also depends on the times of observation and therefore for a project to be truly successful it would have to have benefits above and beyond the life time of the intervention. This project therefore aims at:
1. Identifying ways in which watershed development projects can be monitored from a biological, economic and sociological standpoint
2. Identify the mechanisms by which the success of a project can be maximised
3. Identifying the role participation (along a participatory gradient) plays in the long term, post project, success of watershed development projects
4. Producing a series of best practices for long term watershed development projects
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