No 15 WIRFP Strategies and Approaches to Community Based Water Resources Development

Gramin Vikas Trust is implementing development activities with tribal communities in remote rural areas to improve there livelihoods. GVT's approach in initially to motivate villagers thorough Participatory rural Applications (PRAs) to analyse their needs and prepare a village plan to address the constrains on improving their livelihoods. GVT then facilitates villagers with small scale simple activities (For example, formation of self-help groups, on-farm testing of new crop varieties, well deepening, health camps, establishing nurseries, etc.) Particular emphasis to given to involving poor and women in the development process and to take account of the views of these and other disadvantaged groups. More complex activities that require greater community cooperation and greater use of resources (for example, planning and construction of infrastructure such as soil and water conservation works, water storage dams, implementation of joint forestry management etc,) are taken up only where the community shows keen interest to work for their own development.

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