local contribution

What is Local Contribution?

In ISPWDK Phase II, the people’s ownership and sustainability of project interventions is envisaged through local or own contribution. There are two kinds of contribution envisaged in the mid course corrections document of ISPWDK Phase II i.e. people’s contribution and local /own contribution. The ‘people’s contribution’ to watershed development interventions is in the form of indigenous knowledge, voluntary labour (shramdaan) and participation (members of the governing councils, management committees, resource persons etc). However, certain identified tasks taken up by local people towards the execution of development activities such as contribution of local resource persons during planning, work of the animators, work of the village executives during implementation of the watershed rehabilitation works etc, are being compensated.

Percentage of Local Contribution

For the watershed rehabilitation activities on private property, the landowners provide ‘local / own contribution’ of 25% of the project costs. The people’s contribution for the treatment of common property resources is 10%. The own contribution is in the form of labour, material or cash.

Objectives:

The objectives of local contribution are:

• To empower the local communities, both financially and institutionally, to manage the natural resources in the watershed on a sustainable basis, and maintain assets created to this effect - both on private lands and on common lands.
• To strengthen the capital base of the community to address their livelihood needs – particularly the poor, women and marginalized sections - through their own CBOs.
• To create ownership of the development interventions made by the project, through the VDS
• To meet the emergency requirements of the communities in adverse conditions.

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