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Strategizing the Baitarani Basin Management for sustainable development and poverty alleviation

 

GOAL

  • Socially responsible and environmentally sound management of basin resources through effective stakeholder participation for sustainable basin livelihoods and resilient basin ecosystem health

VISION

  • Enhanced stakeholders’ access to options and tradeoffs in basin resources management within 2 years of project launch
  • Operationalization of socially and environmentally responsible basin resource development within 5 years of project initiation
  • Sustainable Basin development as reflected through enhanced livelihood and resilient ecosystem health by 10 years of project launch

MISSION

  • Pursuing ‘Informed’ development through Knowledge and Action-Research based processes
  • Forging partnerships with institutions and individuals to build synergies
  • Empowerment of vulnerable stakeholders for enhanced participation in basin decision making
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BROAD RESEARCH AGENDA

  • Understanding the causes and effects of resource degradation & livelihood insecurity at basin scale from a holistic perspective
  • Delineating and exploring critical/ marginal resources and resource management/ governance practices vis-à-vis basin livelihood and landscape
  • Listing options and tradeoffs for sustainable resource management
  • Connecting basin resource uses and users across basin landscapes
  • Empowerment of basin stakeholders and enabling of basin institutions to take up futuristic basin management

CLIENT

  • All basin stakeholders
  • Key client of the project is the tribal population in the upper catchment, displaced livelihoods in the middle transition zone and the flood-vulnerable poor in the coastal flood plains of the Baitarani River

OBJECTIVES

  1. To enable informed choices for basin stakeholders’ by making accessible strategic basin level information
  2. To empower stakeholders towards democratic governance of basin resources and also to enhance there voices in basin resource management decisions
  3. To develop an approach road map towards perspective futuristic planning along with suggestive institutional set up for its operationalization
 
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PROJECT PROCESSES/ACTIVITIES

 
Objective 1
Review of integrated basin level processes in India and outside
  • To enhance understanding of this emerging discipline of Integrated River Basin Management
  • To enable incorporation of the learning
  • To prevent reinvention of wheel
Secondary Basin Resource (natural, human and derived) appraisal and management/ governance processes – Thematic (4 themes) and Cross-thematic Appraisals
  • To discover critical/ marginal resources, issues and situations and to strategize/ prioritize primary appraisal and planning
  • To understand the impacts of local level actions on natural resources at the basin scale both now and in future
Primary intensive investigation of key basin issues under themes and on cross-themes
  • To capture issues firsthand at closest quarters
  • To go into the depth of causes and link the effects
  • To get scope to interact with direct stakeholders, understand the perceptions and perspectives and discuss alternatives
  • To initiate stakeholder dialogue process from the below, by passing on to them basin information and soliciting their opinions for sustainable basin resource management
Objective 2
To initiate and support a basin dialogue process involving key-stakeholders
  • To expand and further the basin management discourse by ensuring representation of all stakeholder groups
  • To provide knowledge-based inputs for informed decision makings at different level
To facilitate processes, policies and supporting strategies
  • To enable and empower stakeholders and institutions to act effectively
  • To provide the decision makers an enhanced access to basin information to enable for meaningful decision makings
Objective 3
To develop approaches for basin management plan
  • To help all stakeholders understand their roles and responsibilities in management of basin resources and the need of their coming together
To initiate processes towards creation of robustand viable basin institutions involving multi-stakeholders
  • To make basin stakeholder realize the importance of their institution to manage their resources
  • To support basin institution formation process
 
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STRATEGY

Information as the key
  • Rearranging information along natural basin scale for better assessment of status and to aid optimal resource management
  • Not only collection, rearrangement and dissemination, but also rigorous analysis of data to generate meaningful information
  • Enabling access to vital basin information to all basin stakeholders from communities to decision makers to enhance more meaningful contributions to basin resource management decision making
  • Formation of a clearing house for information on basin resources and processes
  • Facilitating unbiased, neutral, information based policy advocacy

Participatory

  • Ensuring participation of stakeholders right from the beginning and across different phases of the project
  • Making basin appraisal process inclusive by involving contributing stakeholders (Academia, researchers, civil society, Govt Departments etc.) and influencing stakeholders (Media, Govt Departments etc.) more actively in the project advisory boards
  • Calling for participation of the communities, local NGOs, Govt departments at sample sites of primary intensive investigation
  • Making the basin stakeholder dialogue process inclusive, broad-based and hierarchical to bring out representative basin opinions and perceptions
  • Adopting participatory planning processes to prepare for approach map for basin plan development

Collaborative

  • Focus on partnerships for making the process more effective and gain from synergies
  • Forging collaboration with resource institutes working on related disciplines to gain from their experiences and resources.
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