Watershed Development and Livelihoods

This book analyses the empowerment process of the Bhil as a result of the implementation of the watershed project in Jhabua. It is examined against the backdrop of a framework that links three important aspects: biophysical, socio-economic, and institutional, and their complex interactions.

S. K. Das is currently Advisor of Indian Space Research Organisation. He has a Masters Degree from the University of Delhi and the University of Hawaii. Prior to this he was Visiting Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. He retired in 2005 as Secretary to Government of India. He has previously published books entitled Civil Service Reform and structural Adjustments (1998), Public Office, Private Interest (2001) and Rethinking Public Accounting (2006).

Introduction Part - I: Disempowerment 1. A Historical Profile 2. A Sociological Perspective 3. Environment Part-II: Empowerment 4. Empowerment - A Conceptual Framework 5. The Watershed Project 6. Action Plans 7. Civil Society Intermediaries 8. People's Perceptions 9. Performance of the Project 10. Assessing the Performance Part- III 11. Conclusions. Bibliography. Index