In Situ Soil And Moisture Conservation	Water Resource Development	Afforestation And Pasture Development	Other Activities
Summer Ploughing	Minor Check dam	Fodder Banks	SHG Formation
Stone Bunding	Major Check dam	Agro-forestry	User Group
Field Bunding	Percolation Pond	Horticulture	Formation
Stone boulder check	Renovation of	Integrated PestManagement	Capacity Building and strengthening of Watershed
dams	existing water bodies	Bio-Manure	Association, SHGs& UGs
Gabian check dams	Farm Ponds	production	Exposure Visits to
Vegetative barrier	Cattle ponds	Vermi-culture	successful areas

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Districts	Blocks	ADPA	IWD	NWDPR	TNCW	IWM	WGDP	OTHERS
Coimbatore &Tirupur	Annur Avinashi Tirupur Palladam Sulur Pongalur Karamadai	40	18	24	-	18	20	1(CAPART) 24-ITC- MSK IWDP- Watershe d Project
Ramanatha -puram	Kamuthi Kadaladi Mudugaluthur Paramakudi Bogalur Thirupullani Mandapam Thiruvadanai	61	15	5	11	-	-	1 (NABARD WDF)
Namakkal	Senthamangalam	-	10	-	-	-	-	-
Cuddalore	Cuddalore Panruti	-	9	-	-	-	-	-
Dindigul	Dindigul, Kodaikanal&Palan	-	10	-	-	-	32	-
Krishnagiri	Kaveripattinam	-	10	-	-	-	-	-
Total		101	72	29	11	18	52	9

Western Ghats Development Programme:

• Entire cross sections of the Watershed communities- Women, marginalized and small farmers, landless workers- understand the problems , resources , opportunities and strengths of the watershed villages exist in the watershed villages
• Communities clearly understand the resource availability in the villages , infrastructure availability, approaches for Govt. benefits , resource availability, and its utilization
• Requirements for the village development , their roles and participation in development and conservation measures
• Understood the importance of watershed conservation for drinking and agriculture
• Need and importance of soil and water conservation to increase the soil fertility and productivity
• Sustainable agriculture development with cost effective natural way of farming and understood the harmful effects of chemical application on lands and crops
• Understanding their roles in participation in Watershed conservation measures for their livelihood- to recharge ground water, agriculture development, employment
• Understand the watershed conservation measures like-
• bundung, trenching,
• percolation ponds,
• check dams,
• check, weirs,
• farm ponds ,
• channel clearing without encroachments,
• deepening of the tanks, ponds, uranis,
• community based, house hold based rain water harvesting structures
• Livelihood options for the watershed communities- women and landless
• Watershed committee was formed with proper operational and Management systems as per the guidelines
• Beneficiary list for the watershed development activities are selected and finalized that what kind of watershed activities are to be implemented in their lands
• Ensuring the participation and involvement and cooperation of the watershed communities in watershed development and community development activities
• Involving line departments in the Western Ghats Development Prorgrammes in the proposed 10 watersheds in Coimbatore district and 10 watersheds in Tiruppur district
• Preparing and accessing the benefits and subsidies of 14 line departments
• Watershed communities are confident in developing their villages by rendering their participation and cooperation
• A perspective Micro- plan for the project was formulated
• Social and natural resources were appraised
• Selection of EPA was finalized
• Land owning and landless community were identified
• Data collected from the govt. records were verified

Other Watershed Development Projects (DPAD, IWDP, NWDPRA, TNCWDP, IWMP, WGDP, DPP) Natural Resource Indicators

1. lncrease in the crop yield: Increase in the cropped area. Adoption of new package of practices like Soil & moisture conservation measures.

2. Cropping pattern diversified: Change in the cropping pattern and improvement in the Ground water level and yield. Soil erosion reduced.
3. Ground Water resources: Increase in number of water bodies, increased surface water supply.
4. SOCIAL: Literacy rate, reduction in school dropouts, increase in girls’ enrolment in schools. Housing pattern (with or without electricity, sanitation, furnishing, toilets, kitchen, pucca-hut, etc.,Drinking water facilities, time spent in fetching water o Participation of women, landless and weaker sections in project. . Reduction in migration, impact on landless families. Employment opportunities - On farm and off farms, impact of trainings, awareness of the program, shramadan. Women Empowerment - Decision making, capacity, collective decisions Self-sufficiency - Food, fodder, fuel, drinking water etc. . Peoples' participation in planning and implementation of their choice - Soil & water conservation, structures, lGA, etc., initiation, implementation of agro based / income generating activities,involvement in CPR development - Planning, implementation, monitoring and O&M . Control on free grazing, tree felling, disputes, alcoholism, Health centers, dispensaries, Vet clinics, Family planning, and Mortality rates.
5. ECONOMIC: Household income - Sources of income, expenditure, savings, investments, etc. improvement in housing pattern, household assets . Living Standards - Poverty level, Food Consumption, Food security, increase in wage rates, No of working days, etc. . Changes in land prices . Economic assets - Plantations, agro-forestry, improved farming inputs, equipment’s, fertilizers / pesticides usage, increased savings of SHG members increased access to credit / government grants / subsidies etc., Changes in crop production (agricultural crops, horticulture, floriculture, etc), yield/ha. Income generating activities, type, alternative occupational programmes. Livestock, dairy activities, kitchen garden, Market facilities, agricultural produce, Storage facilities.
6. INSTITUTIONAL: Formation & Functioning of CBOs (SHGs/ClGs/AGs/UGs/NWCs) - Numbers, Member composition, Activities, involvement in decision making, Book keeping, etc. NGO, Staff Status - Functioning, Sensitization and mobilization, Formation of CBOs and facilitation for better functioning, Role in Entry Point Activities, Action Plan preparation, Approval and implementation, Collection of baseline survey data, Beneficiary Selection, Capacity building / Training programmes, etc. .IGA programmes - Credit linkages, micro enterprises. Line department role, activities and their linkages - ZP, TP, GP, RMKs Linkages among different groups viz., SHGs, AGs, UGs, VWCs, ClGs, etc.,Convergence with other Developmental Programmes

Mid-Term Evaluation

COODU was entrusted with the conduct of mid-term evaluation of 15 watershed projects under drought Prone Areas Programme in 3 blocks of Dindigul district in 1996, which had been successfully completed. COODU had also performed the following tasks in the 1 st batch of watersheds in the year 1998.
• Research study
• Collection of data
• Data analysis
• Submission of findings to DRDA, Dindigul.

NABARD Watershed Development Fund (WDF):

NABARD had sanctioned watershed project in Kiliyur watershed in Tiruvadanai block/taluk of Ramanathapuram district, with an extent of 1100Ha, under Watershed Development Fund. After successfully completing Capacity Building Phase, the Organisation carried out Feasibility Study for implementing Final Phase. The following works and tasks have been executed in the watershed, thereby completing the project.

SI No	NAME OF WORK	UNIT	QUANTITY OF WORK DONE
1	Field Bund	Cu.M	62,969
2	Field Bund Outlet	No.	280
3	Farm Pond (105 No.)	Cu.M	71,311
4	Farm Pond Outlet	No.	105
5	Pasture Development on Farm Pond Bunds	No.	105
6	Agro Forestry	No.	9968
7	Agro Horticulture	No.	3402
8	Grass seeds	RM	65,000
9	Channel Formation	Cu.M	6296
10	Deepening of Percolation Pond	Cu.M	38190
11	Training and Demonstration	No.	17

Impacts

• Farmers have been equipped with more knowledge and skills in water management, soil and moisture conservation measures and modern agricultural practices, acutely needed to work upon drought affected area.
• Necessary infrastructures have been created and developed to bring rain water to the fields and harvest water effectively and store it in sub surface and ground water.
• Farmers, who had voluntarily given their labour field bunding and farm pond works have committed themselves to conserve and maintain all the community assets created and developed.