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REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT : ESSAYS ON LONG TERM VILLAGE CHANGE AND RECENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN SOUTH INDIA
by Barbara Harriss-White and S.Janakarajan 
with contributions from 
Diego Colatei, Susan Erb, Lisa Gold, D.Jayraj, Paul Nillesen, 
Ruhi Saith and M.V.Srinivasan

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  • Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (APRLP)                                                                                     

The goal of the APRLP is for effective and sustainable approaches to eliminate poverty to be adopted in drought-prone areas of AP. It aims to enable the Government of AP to provide quality inputs in pro-poor watershed-based sustainable livelihood approaches in five districts (Anantapur, Kurnool, Prakasam, Mahaboobnagar and Nalgonda)......more

Project partners: Government of Andhra Pradesh
Donors: DFID-India
Timescale: July 1999 to 2006/7
Website: www.aplivelihoods.org

  • Understanding sustainable policy-livelihood relationships in South Asia                                               

 The project's goal is to develop and promote practical policy options to support rural livelihoods through a range of research, development and advocacy activities. These will together realise the stated project purpose of developing and promoting policy reform options to improve access to livelihood assets and reduce vulnerability of poor rural people......

Project partners in AP: APRLP, CESS, RDT
Donors: DFID
Timescale: April 2000 to March 2003
Contacts and further information: Team leader: John Soussan j.soussan@geog.leeds.ac.uk. Website:  www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/prp
  •   Water, households and rural livelihoods (WhiRL)                                                                                         

The WhiRL project seeks to promote appropriate integration and coordination of watershed development and rural water supply through action research focusing on Kalyandurg Mandal in Anantapur District. Studies of water use (with a component focusing on productive use of domestic supplies) and pilots for improved watershed management schemes are being carried out in coordination with APRLP...........

Project partners in AP: Accion Fraterna, Anantapur (also BAIF in India; and in UK John Soussan, Leeds University)
Donors: DFID (Infrastructure & Urban Development Department)
Timescale: Sep 2000 to Mar 2004
Contacts and further information: John Butterworth j.a.butterworth@gre.ac.uk; 
                                                            Charles Batchelor WRMLtd@aol.com; 
                                                            YV Malla Reddy (actionf@hd2.dot.net.in). 
website: http://www.nri.org/WSS-IWRM/

  • Community management of groundwater resources in rural India (ComMan)                                        

The broad aims of the ComMman project are to: assess the feasibility of applying local, user-based approaches to groundwater management as a means of addressing, or avoiding, groundwater depletion problems; provide guidance (to a range of local, regional and national stakeholders) on how implementation might be approached, and on how obstacles might be overcome.  ........

Project partners in India: UNICEF; National Geophysical Research Institute; Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur; TamilNadu Agricultural University; VIKSAT; ACWADAM; Institute for Social and Environmental Transition; [and in the UK:] ODI.

Donors: DFID
Timescale: October 2001 to March 2004
Contacts and further information: David Macdonald  dmjm@bgs.ac.uk; 
                                                            Roger Calow rcal@bgs.ac.uk. 
Website: www.bgs.ac.uk/hydrogeology/comman

  • Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods                               

 This project aims to increase understanding of the potential role of market-based approaches in promoting the provision of watershed services for improving livelihoods in developing countries.

Donors: DFID
Timescale: Inception phase October 2001 to September 2002.
Contacts and further information: Natasha Landell-Mills Natasha.landell-mills@iied.org for international project; Elaine.Morrison@iied.org for India component
  • Prajateerpu: a citizens’ jury/ scenario workshop on food futures for AP: Michel Pimbert, IIED          

In July 2001 IIED and IDS facilitated a participatory process to encourage more public debate in policy choices on food futures for AP. The ‘citizens’ jury’ was an exercise in deliberative democracy involving marginal-livelihood citizens.

Contacts and further information: Michel Pimbert, IIED
website: www.iied.org/agri/IIEDcitizenjuryAP1.html  
 
  • Institute of Development Studies                                                                                    

Institute of Development Studies is building on existing work on sustainable livelihood issues and link this to governance, participation and poverty issues. Countries included are South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 

Website: http://www.ids.ac.uk/slsa

  • Overseas Development Group                                                                                        

Overseas Development Group, University of East Anglia, is undertaking research in Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda to develop and promote practical policies to reduce the vulnerability of poor rural people.

Website :  http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/ODG/pages/cs_africa.html

  • International Institute of Environment and Development                                               

International Institute for Environment and Development is establishing an SL Policy Learning Group, initially for Ghana, to examine the impacts of innovative policies and programmes, identify policy and institutional constraints to livelihoods, best policy practice and effective coping strategies. 

Further details available from: sustag@iied.org. 
Other similar projects from http://www.iied.org/agri/projects.html#info
  • Watershed Based Livelihoods Approach: A policy Action Research Program                    
            Presenter  : V. Ratna Reddy
            Affiliation : CESS, Hyderabad
            EMail : vratnareddy@yahoo.com

The study is being carried out by CESS in collaboration with the university of Leeds, UK. The study is an attempt to address primarily the issue of lesson learning and policy influence component of A.P Rural livelihoods project (APRLP) ......more.

  • Poverty Focused Smallholder Water Management Systems: Promoting Innovation Water Harvesting and irrigation Systems to Support Sustainable Livelihoods in South Asia       
Presenter : Christopher Scott
Affiliation : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

The focus is mainly on water and other natural resources in watersheds. They are not looking at income generation activities through SHG’s in watersheds. The purpose of the project is to create an applied knowledge base of traditional systems to assess proven innovations in small holders water management and develop practical mechanism for their promotion and dissemination...more

  • Urban Waste Water Usage for Fodder, Paddy and vegetable by Poor Farmers in the peri-urban Foot Print Downstream of Hyderabad  

Stephanie Buechler of International Water Management Institute:-She informed that apart from the above projects, another project has been taken up recently. The project is “urban waste water usage for fodder, paddy and vegetable production by poor farmers in the peri-urban foot print downstream of Hyderabad”. This is to be done in the Musi water area. This is still in initial stages.

  • Micro-Diversification: Case Study on Livelihoods                                                       
Presenter:     Sourindra. B
Affiliation:      BASIX
Email:           sourindra@basixindia.com

This project was initiated in September 2001 as part of the ODI Livelihood Options Project and is likely to be completed in eight months. Case studies are being conducted in Anantapur and Medak. They are taking the family as a unit. The questions being addressed are: How have livelihoods evolved? What are the choices? Who takes decisions? How it is scaling up? The role of support agencies, including elected bodies in such changes was also looked into....more

  • Technical Support to A. P Rural Livelihoods Project                                                 
Presenter:        P. Parthasarathy Rao
Affiliation:         ICRISAT   
Email:              p.partha@cgiar.org 

ICRISAT is providing technical support for “A.P Rural livelihoods project” in Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Anantapur and also looking at livelihood options. This is tie-up with government of A.P and DFID. The watersheds are yet to be selected. They have surveyed 10 villages in 1975 and 1985. Out of these 10 villages two are from Mahbubnagar. In each village 40-50 farmers were surveyed on various aspects. These villages are resurveyed in 1999. It was observed that livelihood options increased in 2001....more

  • AP Rural Poverty Reduction Program (APRPRP)                                                        
Presenter:      S. Galab
Affiliation:       CESS, Hyderabad
Email:            galabsp@yahoo.co.in 

District poverty initiatives project (DPIP) is the first phase. It was initiated in the context of declining income poverty and continuing non-income poverty. It is built on SAPAP (South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme). DPIP was implemented in 6 districts of A.P, viz., Anantapur, Chitoor, Adilabad, Mahbubnagar, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram.....more

  • Policy Response to Poor                                                                                               
Presenter:      M. Gopinath Reddy
Affiliation:       CESS, Hyderabad
Email:            mgrjl@yahoo.com 

This project is funded by ODI and carried out by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, England with the help of local experts. It is being carried out in A.P and M.P in India. This study aims to look at the political dimension of development at the interface of panchayat raj institutions with watershed committees in villages and village tribal development agencies (VTDAs) in tribal areas...more

  • Strengthening Civil Society                                                                                          
Presenter:       K. S Revathy
Affiliation:        AP Urban Services for the Poor
Email:             mastdcel@hd2.vsnl.net.in

Management advisory support team (MAST) is an agency set up by the DFID and the Municipal Administration Department, Government of A.P to implement component 3 (c3) of the APUSP.  MAST’s primary focus is on capacity building of the stakeholders at the user, representative and also at the service provider level set the backdrop against which the poor people’s wider, non- infrastructural needs are orchestrated and ultimately managed by stakeholders. It is being implemented in 32 municipalities in A.P.  ..more

  • Young Lives: An interventional study of child hood poverty                                       
Presenter:       T. D Jose
Affiliation:        Save the Children, U. K
Email:             jose@scindia.org.uk 

It is a 15 years longitudinal project, simultaneously carried out in A.P in (India), Vietnam, Peru and Ethiopia and funded by DFID, UK. The collaboration is among government, academic institutions like Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, CESS, Hyderabad, etc.. Save the children, UK will be the NGO involved in it......more

  • Livelihoods – NRI Projects                                                                                                   
Presenter:      John Butterworth
Affiliation:       Natural Research Institute (NRI)
Email:             j.a.butterworth@gre.ac.uk              

NRI has been involved in five livelihoods focused projects..more

  • Indo-Swiss Programme on Natural Resource Management.                                            
    Presenter:   Rebecca      
    Affiliation:    Intercooperation (Swiss Organization for Development and Cooperation)
    Email:         becky@tatanova.com        

    Here the ‘rural livelihood system matrix-a tool’ was introduced. In this matrix, component of livelihoods are taken in the columns, while the technical, political and cultural views are taken in the rows policies/ strategies, structure and human resources are the components of livelihoods. Planning can be done using this test. They studied using this model taking caste and gender. They found that ST women don’t have resources and does not have autonomy. In the cooperatives women are not the members. 

    In Anantapur they formed sheep and goat rearers associations under MACS. Now they formed federations. They are also trying to do the same in other districts. They provide revolving fund to the sheep and goat rearers. Cooperatives in which all communities including women can join. 

     

  • SPWD                                                                                                                            

Presenter: G. Bhaskara Rao
Email: Spwd_hyd@satyam.net.in

 Society for Promotion of Waste Lands Development (SPWD) is taking up field based activities pertaining to rural livelihoods. They are mobilizing social capital and started a natural resources center in 1991. They have taken up a study on household livelihood and coping strategies in semi-arid India in collaboration with NRI and funded by DFID.