Overview:

WASSAN has established Resource Centre for Participatory Groundwater Management for last four years and making serious efforts to address the above concern. Over a period of time, WASSAN and its partners (government, communities and NGOs) are able to demonstrate few models that addressed groundwater management issues in few villages of RR District, Mehabubnagar and Ananatapur districts. These experiences are relevant for mainstream development initiatives such as IWMP, IJP, IGWDP, etc. These models were demonstrated with funding and administrative support from several departments of GoAP (Department of Rural Development/Agriculture) and others (NABARD; CRIDA/ ICAR, Arghyam Foundation and others).

Objective:

Through this workshop, WASSAN aims to spread the message of collective action for improving the groundwater management and governance in the context of IWMP, IJP and other mainstream government projects and also several initiatives by voluntary agencies/ academic institutions in the state. Partnering with potential agencies in the process of spreading some of the good practices is also on the agenda.

Date & Venue:

A sharing workshop on 12th and 13th Feb 2014 on “Constructing Groundwater Governance from the Emerging Field Level Experiences - A Travelling Workshop on Participatory Groundwater Management in Andhra Pradesh” at Dream Valley Resorts, Hyderabad. Two day travelling workshop which has both field visit (On 12th Feb 2014 to RR District/ Mehabubnagar District) and conference/ workshop (on 13th Feb 2014 at Dream Valley Resorts, Hyderabad).

Please contact Mr. C. Bakka Reddy (9440621862) for any details of the workshop. Travel expenses (2nd Class sleeper/ bus tickets) would be reimbursed for those participants from NGOs/ Community Based Organizations, on submission of original tickets. Also, view the tentative schedule from below.