NGO implementing agencies. Main features of the new guidelines. Review of implementation of the 1994 guidelines for watershed development. Experiments have shown that, in some areas, more than a doubling of resource productivity can be achieved by careful rehabilitation.
Many watersheds contain both private and common land.
It is already clear from a number of efforts led by NGOs that, to be equitable and institutionally sustainable, the rehabilitation of both common and private lands needs action rooted in strong resource user-groups capable of taking decisions in a participatory way and resolving conflict. To build up groups in this way requires both time and skills, both of which have proven elusive in government projects and programmes. This is a valuable book for environmentalists, NGOs, activists, donor agencies, and policy-making agencies. Cathryn Turton is a Research Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute, London.