entry point activity in watershed
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Entry Point Activities in watershed programmeTRANSCRIPT
ENTRY POINT ACTIVITY
Satyabrata Guru,TE-Livelihoods
Entry Point Activities (EPA) are part of community mobilization process to get more and more participation of the community in the micro watershed planning.
Identification
EPA may be a bundle of different activities and not necessarily a single activity for a village.
EPA need not be capital intensive. No cost or low cost activities
Villagers should not be encouraged for such entry point activity which may disrupt communal harmony at village level.
Implementation
Facilitate villagers for identification of EPA through a series of informal discussion in small groups and through village meeting.
Resolute the EPA identified by the community Facilitate the process to get maximum participation
of villagers at planning stage. Encourage villagers for maximum contribution in
physical and financial form. PIA facilitated the process to create an environment
where a group of villagers take initiative to implement the identified EPA.
Different thematic area
Awareness Livestock development initiatives Food and nutritional security Health & Sanitation Address Gender issues Drinking water provision Agril development Rural infrastructure
Livestock development initiatives
Animal Healthy Camp Provision of BuckVeterinary kitTravis
Nutritional Food Security
Grain bankKitchen GardenBackyard fruit tressSchool nutritional garden
Addressing Gender issues
Women bathing GhatLadies changing roomDrudgery reduction
Awareness
Wall painting Street play Information centre
Provisioning safe drinking water
•Renovation of drinking water sources
• Renovation of well• Tube well platform
with soak pit
Rural infrastructure
• Drying yard•Threshing floor• Implement
centre
Agriculture Development
•Reclamination of soil •Crop demonstration• Supply of Agri
implement