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· Identify and formalise relations with NGOs in each district who can be part of the
network
· Set up Steering Committee involving various major non-project stakeholders
including government agencies and independent experts
· Ensure coordination with AME Foundation, Bangalore for mutual learning
B 3
Target beneficiaries
The project is located in seven drought prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, a southern state
of Republic of India. Parts of these districts were identified based on the socio-technical
criteria and delineated into 58 Hydrological Units, in about 650 habitations. All the inhabitants,
both men and women will be targeted for project benefits, irrespective of economic status,
caste, creed and religion. Vulnerable sections of the society are also included along with
the people who control the groundwater resource on account of land ownership.
At a secondary level, the government departments at the district level would be benefited
from the data collected and maintained by the farmers in a geo-spatial database apart
from having the benefit of qualitative interaction with the population of the project area in
implementing other programmes.
At another level, the population in the neighbourhood areas of the project hydrological
units would be benefited by the interaction with the project farmers and demos provided
by the project farmers. Project Partner NGOs would also take the learning’s into their
other programs and improve their effectiveness.
B 4
Project Strategy
B 4a
Rationale for choosing the approach
It is obvious that the farmer is in a better position than anybody else to take preventive
measures and escape from consequences of the drought. In the absence of the information
with the farmer, it is proved beyond doubt that drought forecasting by scientists can only
help in documentation and will not save the farmer from misery. Further, depletion of
groundwater resource is best controlled by the users themselves. The role of scientists
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