Project-3

Government of Karnataka Water Resource Department

Project Title: Providing Cluster Facilitation Team Services to Tank Monitoring Committee (TMC) for tank improvement

Project Location: Bijapur

Project Period: 09 June, 2009 to 31 December, 2011

Project Objectives:The desired objectives aimed to achieve through community participation. The proposed follow-on project would address the issues through;

• Comprehensive and specialized training of farmers and tank users on technical aspects of improving agriculture productivity
• Improving farmers’ awareness and understanding about the efficient water management and improved cropping systems.

Activities completed and methodology followed:

Activities Completed

• Formation of Tank Management Institutions (TMIs) which or would be registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act or constituted under Panchayath Raj Act;
• Constitutions of Tank Users’ (TUCs) with representation from all the interest groups including vulnerable sections of the society;
• Transfer of main development, operation and maintenance responsibilities from government to the user groups through planning and implementation of integrated tank development plans;
• Cost sharing arrangements for tank development to ensure that the TMIs exhibit the sense of commitment to the proposed interventions;
• Strengthening interface between users groups and Panchayath Raj Institutions.

Methodology Followed

• Capacity building and human resource development;
• Training of JSYS, GoK line departments, CFTs and Zilla Panchayath (ZPs);
• Public awareness activities to safeguard tanks;
• Economic evaluation and community institution study; and MIS/GIS/technical consultancies (project area: State Wide), monitoring & evaluation consultancies; incremental staff, support services operating costs of the financial management system; and other administrative and expenses.

Strengthening Community Development

This component seeks to equip stakeholders with the skills needed to ensure that the local institutions developed under this project function effectively and equitably. This will entail:

• Developing human resources and forming local institutions, strengthening existing human resources in various aspects of tank system improvement and management;
• developing mechanism through which the needs of traditionally vulnerable stakeholders can be sustainably addressed;
• institutionalizing process for sustainable management of tanks and derived benefits, which can be replicated across tank development sites within and outsides of the project.

Implementation activities carried out in all 48 project villages

• Organized orientation and training on procurement
• Orientation and training for Tank Monitoring Committee
• Facilitation of preparation of comprehensive implementation plan
• Implementation of Resettlement Action Plan
• Training on accounts, book keeping
• Execution of civil works
• Skill training on civil works to women SHGs
• Implementation of Income Generating activities
• TMI implementation activities which includes adopt of command area afforestation, fishery etc.,