The Rains Decided To Help Us: Participatory Watershed Management in the State of Maharashtra, India

An Economic Development Institute (EDI) Learning Resource Series of the World Bank. The journal is a case study that describes the process of participation during the implementation of a watershed development program in the village of Pimpalgaon Wagha India. It highlights joint action by a number of stake holders namely; an NGO, Social Centre, government representatives and the local people with case studies, giving an insight into the process of participatory development. It has an overview of the Biomass Resource Base in India, background information of Pimpalgaon Wagha. The study examines the relations between and amongst the various actors involved in the project and the direct beneficiaries, by looking at the impact of the watershed development on various sectors; wells and watershed availability, crop productivity, horticulture, forestry, energy plantation and pasture development, livestock, irrigation, employment and income .