Participatory Ground Water Management
Participatory Ground Water Management
Implementing Partner: Arid Communities and Technologies
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Impact - 2023
Impact - 2023
Some notable impacts from the past PGWM phase include training and capacity building for 3377 participants (2529 men and 848 women), belonging to various stakeholder groups; and also a reduction of 7 MCM water deficit - from 32.89 MCM to 25.86 MCM. Some other notable outcomes from the PGWM program are listed below:
Programmatic Outcomes
Programmatic Outcomes
Scale up of KMARC over 231 villages
180 villages on Kankavati Aquifer, 46 of coastal Saurashtra, 05 villages in Central Gujarat
165 PGWM committees and 82 Bhujal Jankars at village level are actively facilitating PGWM at micro level
Formed 180 Community groups (about 1800 families) for collectively planning for conjunctive groundwater use
Linked up 03 KVK Centers of Kachchh and Saurashtra with 1200 farmers for various demand side management activities and training programs
Partnership increased with 05 CSR; 02 Donors; and 01 Government program (ABhY)
Government also invest on technology for Ground Water Monitoring and Water Use Monitoring
Linkages with 07 Academic Institution for Learning and sharing process
Institutional Outcomes
Institutional Outcomes
Kankavti Aquifer Forum represented by about 40 members has been constituted and cluster-level planning has initiated in rest of the aquifer area
Expansion of Parab – A Bhujal Jankar Institute taken place in one another block in Kachchh
A knowledge center coordinated by BJs on groundwater has been started in Khambhaliya in one of the coastal districts of State.
- Direction and Impact in the year 2023-24
Building on the learning and experiences of the previous PGWM work, acts work has expanded not only geographically, but also programmatically. The map below shows the geography of our project areas in Gujarat.
In addition to existing programmatic activities, in this phase we have focused on exploring innovative methods to conserve water on the demand side, developing techniques for soil aquifer recharge, holistic approaches for salinity mitigation in groundwater, training adolescent girls on participatory groundwater management, implementing village level sewage treatment plant, developing local leadership for sustainability of PGWM work. The diagram below shows the scale up approach at programmatic level
WATSAN numbers.pptxAbout Arid Communities and Technologies (ACT) and Dr. Yogesh Jadeja, Founder
Principal Investigator : Dr.Yogesh Jadeja, Ph.D. (Geology ,) Director, Arid Communities and Technologies
ACT is a professional voluntary organization based at Bhuj, Kachchh district in Gujarat, India. Registered under Societies Act, 1860 and Charitable Trust Act, 1950. It is founded by a group of like-minded young professionals interested in improving the quality of development delivery by Government and Non-government agencies. ACT strives to strengthen livelihoods in arid and semi-arid regions by improving access to technological and institutional solutions for resolving ecological constraints in collaboration with communities, with a strong focus on water security in remote areas.
ACT stands by the following values in pursuing its mission:(a) professionalism, excellence, and quality working conditions;(b) transparency and participatory nature of approach; (c)relevance to context and tangible impact on the ground.
For more details, visit ACT website
Links to various documentation:
SOPs - group formation, bump dam etc - Find here - https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/17mZ2MiS4sUfoRtNmBm3BWut3WJMKX-Ex
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