This course has been
designed specially for rural women to build their
capacities regarding water resource development as
well management. Our experience in training and
working with villagers, women are more sensible
about water especially for drinking water. Also
drinking water and related issues directly affects
women. So that they should be a part of drinking
water development as well as management. The
training program also gives them vision of Natural
resource management. The course is designed with
minimal reading and writing and instead focuses much
more on interactive learning using lots of local
terminology to make the candidate feel comfortable.
Expected Outcome
This 30 days course should be considered a
foundation course to build confidence of rural
women. The candidate will develop a basic
understanding of geology of the region, salinity
pattern, rainfall pattern, type of agriculture and
grassland practices, constraints and potential. They
will at the end of the course be competent and
comfortable develop drinking water plans for her
cluster of villages with management plan. They will
also be able to develop the basic strategy for water
resource development in her cluster of villages.
They will also be given the introduction to
alternative water resource management practices.
Eligibility
:
The
minimum eligibility criteria for these training will
be that trainee should be at least primary appeared.
Duration
:
The time duration of
the training programme for this module is 30 days
and these 30 days will be staggered into 10 to 12
days in 3 months. The trainee will be given the
homework to prepare the planning of the villages
from which they.
Batch Size
:
The size of the batch
will be 14 -18 in numbers (probably 16). There would
two trainee from each village.
Fee (for year 2008)
:
Rs.
12,500/- (This includes boarding)
Subjects
Covered
:
Nature Cycle and
Human being as positive and negative part
What is
Nature? Role of Human in its cycle
Village level
natural resource and its potential and problems
( each candidate has to describe her own
village)
Natural
resource and its potential and problems in
context of Kachchh
Develop
understanding on water and land potential and
problems in Kachchh by exposure
Exposure in
regarding village level Natural Resource
Exposure of
model village in watershed development
Exposure on
drinking water development and management
Geo Hydrology
characteristics
Geology and
Geo - hydrology
How to
understand geology in Village
Understand
Geo-morphology of the area and its influence on
its water resource
Aquifer
identification and definition of aquiclude,
aquifuse and aquitard
To understand
groundwater resources in village
Primary water
quality analysis
Climate of
Kachchh
Different
climatic parameter
Climate of
Kachchh and its influence on livelihood
Hydrological
cycle
Land and
water quality, its conservation and development
approach
Planning Ideology
To understand
Planning ideology
Scope of land
and water resource planning
Basic
understanding of Watershed characteristics
Strategy for
drinking water as well as agriculture planning
considering all the aspects
Arid Communities
and Technologies (A.C.T.) is a professional voluntary
organization and working in semi arid to arid region. A.C.T.
is mainly focuses on research program and training program
for capacity building mainly in water resource and
agriculture field. So ACT has two physical unit, one is
Planning and research center and second one is Training
center.
