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PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD April 2002 to March 2003
Introduction
The Myrada Kudligi Capacity Building and Watershed Project started in October 2000. Myrada's entry into the district (Bellary) was on the invitation of the Zilla Panchayat to partner them to implement several development programmes. The Project is working in 29 villages in Kudligi Taluk.
Funding Partners
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DFID (of the British Government) through KAWAD Society (Karnataka Watershed Development Society, a Society promoted by the Government of Karnataka) supports a complete package of watershed development activities in 4 sub-watersheds of around 9,500 hectares in total, in Upparahalla Watershed.
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Under the Desert Development Programme (DDP), the Zilla Panchayath supports 10 micro-watersheds of around 4,500 hectares in total, in
Hudem.
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German Agro Action (GAA) supports capacity building of NGOs in the district through a rural training centre established by
MYRADA in Kottur. It also supports some part of the administrative costs incurred on implementing the
DDP.
Staffing
There are totally 22 staff on the Project of which KAWAD supports 12, GAA supports 7 and DDP supports 3.
Major Activities
As already indicated above, the Project's main thrusts are on watershed development, forming and strengthening local level institutions, and capacity building of other
NGOs in the district.
Watershed Development
During the year, the implementation of watershed activities in the KAWAD programme progressed better than anticipated, given the difficulties faced by the people due to poor and erratic rains. Funds were released in time and as per plan. It was possible to complete around 80% of the planned activities. In the
DDP watershed programme, progress was very slow since funds were not released for 9 months and the amount that was eventually released was very little. However, the Area Groups in the
DDP area managed to take up some activities from their own savings and repayments. The physical and financial achievements on both are as follows :
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Activities Under DDP
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Under KAWAD
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Under DDP
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Phy.
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Fin.
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LC
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Phy. .
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Fin.
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LC
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Ethn. Bunds
(rmts)
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147,337
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2,396,176
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958,470 |
15.37
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17,171
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5,587
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Stone bunds
(rmts)
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1
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1,800
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720
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Boulder Check
(nos)
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227
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222,973
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54,324
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Bund Revetment
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480
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59,260
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17,703
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Gully Checks (nos.)
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-
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-
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-
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81
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90,080
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10,144
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Checkdams (nos.)
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15
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742,164
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103,560
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4
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128,989
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6,071
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Divrsn. Drains
(rmts)
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629
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63,052
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15,763
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150
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9,588
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480
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Farm Ponds (nos.)
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1
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18,038
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4,510
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2
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3,088
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488
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Bush clearing
(acs.)
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144.81
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914,353
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457,177
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4
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2,015
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0
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Land Levelling
(acs.)
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109.91
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666,638
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333,319
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2.25
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10,369
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4,716
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Rock clearing
(acs.)
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167.34
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975,430
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243,858
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3
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19,114
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3,915
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Nala Bunds (nos.)
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4
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180,146
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19,898
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6
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111,469
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4,790
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RRS
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22
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677,355
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128,922
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2
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58,680
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3,821
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Silt application
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698.13
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4,648,053
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2,324,027
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13
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43,893
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9,741
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Horticulture
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242
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149,694
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74,847
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38,694
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20,630
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Cattle Ponds (nos.)
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11,292
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1,881
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Percolation Pit (nos.)
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2
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140,154
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6,968
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Forestry
(acs.)
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70
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12,999
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1,422
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Block planting
(acs.)
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7
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68,878
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3,444
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5
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29,293
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0
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Tank Renovation
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1
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153,400
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15,340
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TOTAL
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11,937,410
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4,514,139
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726,888
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80,614
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Phy. = Physical Fin. = Financial LC
= Local ( Farmers' ) Contributions |
Local Level Institutions
The Project is working with 169 self help affinity groups, 27 micro-watershed development committees and 66 area groups. The concept of area groups has been introduced in order to give every single watershed farmer the space to participate and to influence decisions in the programme which would otherwise have been left to the micro-watershed development committees to which only a few are selected as members.
The SAG Financial Information as on 31.03.2003 is as follows :
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Particulars
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Amount
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Total Savings
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2,707,533
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Total Common Fund
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3,630,165
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Total Number of Loans Issued
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4,486
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Total Amount issued as Loans
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8,794,419
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Total Recovery
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4,447,226
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Total Amount mobilized from Banks
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676,500
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Total Repayments made to Banks
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378,303
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Capacity Building Activities
With the support of GAA the Project has set up a Training Centre in Kottur, Bellary District. The Training Centre has 3 full time training staff. The participants during the current year have mainly been :
Partner NGOs of KAWAD
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Community Trainers Local Level Institutions
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Bookwriters of community institutions
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Staff, Community Trainers and Bookwriters from other programmes (e.g. Swashakthi
Programme of the Karnataka State Women's Development Corporation).
157 training programmes were conducted during the year of which 100 were for the community institutions of the Project and 57 were for staff and community institutions from other agencies.
The Training Centre is also involved in the grading of community institutions, programme evaluations and documentation.
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