PSMU

The Programme Support and Management Unit (PSMU) in Bangalore is part of SDC/IC and as its extended arm is mandated to support the project partners of ISPWDK and also project partners of IC-NGO Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

PSMU
PSMU supports and facilitates project partners in achieving the project objectives, through commonly agreed concepts and approaches.

PSMU plans, supports and implements interventions in the following thrust areas: Human and Institutional Development, Planning and Implementation, Watershed Development and Livelihood Promotion, Monitoring and Evaluation (including documentation) and contributing to policy debate.

PSMU is accountable for the activities under its direct responsibility in these thrust areas. The PSMU monitors the progress in implementation and the linked expenditures against the PSMU action plan. It prepares half yearly progress reports according to requirements laid down by SDC/IC. An international advisor, who works part time on the ISPWDK, is also based at PSMU.

PSMU assists the partners, Programme Steering Committee (PSC) and SDC/IC in overall reviewing. With its professional in-house expertise, it covers the following areas:

• Technical processes in watershed management;
• Planning and Implementation;
• Human and Institutional Development, including Gender, Monitoring and Evaluation (including Data Management);
• Financial Management and Auditing.

PSMU identifies, together with the partners, needs for human resources and institutional development and implements appropriate HID interventions; supports and facilitates the partner NGOs towards effective planning and implementation of project interventions; advises partners in propagating appropriate technologies for watershed rehabilitation, agriculture production and livelihood promotion; renders suitable advice for enabling programme activities to be well monitored and lessons to be drawn so that appropriate changes are actually put into practice and suitably documented; contributes to the learning at SDC/IC country programme level and policy influencing through sharing and dissemination of experiences at state and national level.