MGNREGS - Integrated watershed management and climate resilience - Working Paper

The first is through harnessing the dedication policy review triangulated by multi-stakeholder key and commitment of state and district officials, who have informant interviews, it investigates the evolution of the discretion and authority to prioritise convergence, the policy framing and design features of MGNREGS. [...] In the face of the climate crisis, the variability and extremes, the central Government of India creation of well-planned local infrastructures is a critical (GOI) recognises the important function of MGNREGS mechanism for enhancing the resilience of communities. [...] The ‘ridge-to-valley’ approach uses infrastructure to exploit the natural hydrology of the watershed to detain, divert, store and maximise the productive use of the rainfall and runoff in the area, bringing both agricultural and livelihood opportunities. [...] The waged labour Ministry of Agriculture and the Integrated Watershed is used to construct productive assets in the local Management Programme in the Ministry of Rural community, which contribute to MGNREG’s secondary Development (MoRD, 2009a, 2009b); this would objective: to support and strengthen the livelihood eventually become a fundamental institutional resource base of the poorest and most m. [...] approaches, where the sensitisation and education of the local community, together with the use of While the government holds programme evaluations at participatory planning tools such as vulnerability sporadic times, such as the 2011 review that brought assessments, start with the help of CSOs several the Shah Committee Guidelines in 2012, there is months prior to the actual construction of asset.