Farm women in watershed activities

Watershed development programme placed a central emphasis on capacity building of the stakeholders and their active participation particularly women on planning, implementation and post project maintenance with primary goal of livelihood security. A study conducted with192 watershed women from 24 watersheds in four blocks of Sundargarh and Keonjhar districts of Odisha revealed that the watershed women had a favourable opinion for the involvement of Project personnel working at field level. But their involvement had been restricted with programme implementation and fund utilization only.

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Watershed development programme has been aimed at active involvement of the people in all the stages in the implementation process including fund utilization. The study therefore attempted to assess the extent of development of the watershed women. A sample of 192 watershed women involved in the programme were randomly selected from 24 watersheds covering two blocks each in Sundargarh and Keonjhar districts of Odisha.

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