, . 3 2 ,-.:a . - $6, 9 0 , *-9J-t, .e 7 '," .+, THE WORLD BANK ININDIA IntegratedWatershed Development Project (Hills II) 49123 THE WORLD B A N I 1 CommitmentAmouht 1 US$135 million(IBRD 8 IDA) *.XII._-I.--L-_.^ _. ^ 1- I . Approval Date 3 ! 15 June1999 - --- --- f------<<--.-.--------.,-------,-.. Closing Date "2" -----30--..--a----" September 2005 ----- .----- ~,*--.-- ---" .----.---*--..--- 1 1 Project ObjectiveThe IntegratedWatershed Development (Hills II) Project aims to improve India's productive I I potentialin five states, using evolving watershedtreatment technologies and community participatory approaches. h i I The Project contributes significantlyto decreasing soil erosion, increasingwater availability,and alleviating poverty [ I I I uous areas of the Shivalik hills in the five project states. I Watershed Protection and Development @ Rural infrastructure development I @ Sub-watershed treatment a Buildlngfootpaths and footbridges, and ensurlngcross- 7 Repair of terraces and plantingof vegetation barriers drainageon rural roads along contours to prevent further eroslon Providingmarketing and post-harvest~nginfrastructure, * Improvement of cropping systems includingthe increased including upgradinghaats (ruralmarkets) and organizing 3 use of organic fertilizersand pesticides, and the use of f livestock fairs better quality seeds and appropriatetillage practices a lmprovingthe supply of potablewater a Introductionof high-valueplantsfor horticultureand ej Providingdrainagelinetreatment to contain soil erosion medicinal purposes, combined with training and exposure a Building water harvestingstructures visits, and assistance for grading, packaging, processing II Institutional Strengthening and marketingagriculturalproducts @ Capacitybuilding in communitiesthrough Project'facilitators' 1 B On-farm production of fodder to discouragevillagers and village-based'motivators' (allwomen), who assist in from letting out their cattle to graze indiscriminately setting up Village Development Committees,which then draw c Pasture development, by clearinghugetracts currently up Village Development Plans overrun by lantana @ Strengthening policy reforms 6; Forest regeneration +i, Formulating a ShivalikWatershed Development @ Fodder and livestock development Strategy that will span the five Project states 9 Genetic improvement using artificial insemination e Reducing subsidies by encouragingcost-sharing in a lmprovingveterinary healthby extendingthe veterinary agricultural,forestry and animal husbandry activities infrastructure,including dispensaries .; Humanresourcedevelopmentbyprovidingtraining e Encouragingfodder production programs, and field and exposure visits for communities + Encouraging improved livestock management practices @ Encouraging income-generatingactivitiesfor women, i including stall-feeding mainlythrough self-help groups i. Ensuringinstitutional support by training local technicians @ lmproving informationmanagement, monitoringandevaluation, I E (paravets)and villagers including the use of Geographic InformationSystems (GIs) I Hcnv theMountains Stopped 'Wa P ,*." ....,-.., .,-. ...,-,-.** ..,,~.~v,.~~,m.~."-,%G<*.m~"v:-*-,.~.. ...... .,.,> ...,,ze?..:.:L-. . . , /hem acquire Project. They spend the mornings collecting heaps of wild marigold (tagetes minuta), so I abundant in the hills. The aromatic oil 40-year-oldSushrna~{ni."We've come out of produced from these flowers has a strong our houses,we attend hneetings,we've commercialdemand and the women have traveled to townsfor training, and we've already been offered Rs 2,000-3,000per liter negotiated with banksfor credit." ~ Below: for the oil. One such story of womkn's empowermenthas A women's seghelp group Gathered around the press, the women are now passed into ~rojeitlore. The i n Uttaranchal vocal about the change in their lives. "The GurdaspuraVillage ~ d ~ e l o ~ mcommittee e n t celebrates with a dance Project helped us lose our hesitation," says in Nalagarh district, ~bmachal~radesh,was Right: bank was willing to entertain their request Theself-help group Zaxmi' for credit. The localwomen's self-helpgroup, of Himachal k 'Laxmi', bailed them out. As their credit- Gurdaspura village which worthiness was better -the 20 women of the helped the men group ran a series of micro-enterprises such of their village as making ropes, vermi-cornpostingand get a bank loan sewing-they took a loan from the local Below: cooperative bank and passed it on to the Project Water Users' Group. helped women set up a host of strugglingto collect a contribution of Rs The lift irrigation scheme was duly profitable enterprises 40,000for an irrigation scheme that would completed and today it waters 25 ha of including lift water from a stream to villages on the previouslyunproductive land, and has making hand woven durries hillside some 80 meters above. However,the increased the household incomesof the (rugs) and Water Users' Group,most of whom were from beneficiaries fourfold. Each beneficiary pickles and preserves the scheduled castes,were too poor to raise household is happy to contribute Rs 150 Gfarright) the money themselves and no commercial per season towards repayment of the loan. special emphasis on making communities understand the need for greater cost-sharing The Project has also supported key policy and implementing a strict cost-recovery and institutional reforms in watershed regime for certain interventions such as management. A major achievement has been artificial insemination and concentrated the formulation of the ShivalikWatershed feed. Development Strategy,which seeks to It has been successfullbdemonstrated that, harmonize guidelines for development across farmers are willing to pay for the cost of a the five Project states. useful good or service,and they will in turn There has also been a successful attempt to demand more for their money. This principle reduce unnecessary subsidies in the has now been adopted by all the five IWDP agriculture, horticulture and animal states and is being imilemented in non- husbandry sectors. The Project has placed Project areas as well. Thefive states spanning the Shivaliks worked together under the aegis of the Project to forge a common visionfor the regeneration of the mountain range For a snapshot of the difference IWDP has the village women are supplementing their made on the groundvisit Nanowal, a below- household incomesmaking ropes, indigenous poverty line village in the Nalagarh district of salt licks for cattle, and setting up forest Himachal Pradesh. Erosionhas scoured the nurseries. Septuagenarian Majid says he has faces of the hills surrounding the village and never seen his village so prosperous. "The the land has turned inhospitable. forests have got a new life and so have we," he says. Right and Today,the tops of those denuded scarps are facing page: sprouting a toupee of young trees. 'lbo large Working in tandemwith earthen dams catch the rainwater and the local irrigate the lands of the village's poorest communitg theProject families.The slipping soil has been helped change harnessed by wire-mesh bunds or bound by theface of Nanowal, a newly-plantedshrubs. Fodder and fuelwood below-poverty are abundant; the water table has been line village in recharged and drinkingwater is being Himachal Pradesh. The pumped to homes up the furthest slopes;and twopai,ntings are th,e lndia Oftice: THE WORLD BANK 70 Lodi Estate New Delhi 1 10003 Phone: (91-1 1) 2461 7241 Fax: (9 1-11) 246 1 9393 Also visit The World Bank in lndiawebsites: English: http://www.worldbank.org.in Frontandback cover iliustrations: Hindi: http://www.vishwabank.ore- Biti-chitrafolk paintings by Narmada PrasadTekarn, Telugu: http://www.prapanchabank.org a Gondtribal artist. Kannada: http://www.vishwabanku.org