Watershed management in India
FAO is working with the World Bank in India to assist state and federal government to design new generation watershed projects. A new project in Karnataka aims to scale up and strengthen the government schemes with new tools, approaches and means of incorporating more scientific information into watershed basin planning, and to create efficient institutional linkages with agriculture and rural employment schemes.
The project also seeks to build capacity of relevant departments and staff to monitor the performance of their services and environmental change. Based on this design, FAO was also involved in the design of the Neeranchal National Watershed Project, which aims to roll out and scale up similar support across the country for the over USD 1 billion national Integrated Watershed Management Programme.
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