guiding principles

The guiding principles for all activities are as follows.

• The local people and their institutions are the main actors in any watershed development intervention. The outside actors are basically facilitators who provide services and support.
  
  
• The pace of planning and implementation of the watershed development activities depends upon the absorption capacity of the people in the watershed areas.
  
  
• There will be a concerted effort to develop, in cooperation with the local communities, appropriate low-cost, easy-to-maintain conservation measures based on a good blend of indigenous and ecofriendly modern practices favouring vegetative elements to the maximum extent possible.
  
  
• All project activities are on the basis of cost sharing i.e. local contribution of 25% for the development of private property and 10% for the development of common property resources.
  
  
• The support provided by the project should lead to developments and changes that can be sustained after the withdrawal of the project.