Developing Working Partnerships

I have chose the case study "Developing Working Partnerships: The Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)". This case study is based on a concrete experience in the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), now called the "Sangamner" pattern. It evolved in a place called Sangamner of the Ahmednagar district of the State of Maharashtra, India. The IGWDP is a bilaterally assisted programme funded by the Govt. of Germany and being implemented in the State of Maharashtra by village self-help groups organised and supported by voluntary agencies (NGOs) in their efforts at regenerating the watersheds they live in. It is politically and administratively support by the Government of Maharashtra (GOM) .

The cardinal lesson learned is that nothing succeeds like success. But success in the area of natural resource management is not possible unless all stake holders (and in this case they stretch from not only the villager and his neighborhood but also through the local political, institutional milieu upto the state level administrative and political level, since land and water management on a large scale is both a social and political issue), are involved. Such an involvement becomes feasible only if the right ambiance, attitudes, legal and administrative arrangements occur. Such arrangements are necessarily of the type that respects the autonomy and freedom of the various actors, while at the same time premises success only on effective cooperation amongst them, the possibility and impetus for which arises from the confluence of primary interests of each of these actors.