APRLP : Introduction

Acronyms used in APRLP
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Community Based Organisations (CBOs)	At the village level organising community into different interest groups as UG,SHG and VO as community based organisations for ensuring their sustenance to implement the programme.
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District Watershed Development Committee (DWDC)	In AP, the district watershed development committees are constituted to advice and suggest the DWMA's on selection of PIAs, Capacity building plan & strategy, approval of detailed action plans, Convergence and other policy issues. The district collector is the chairperson of the DWDC in which the district officers of other line departments,NGO representative,Women representatives, etc are the members and the PD-DWMA is the member convener of DWDC.
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Gram Sabha	A General body meeting of the village wherein the representatives of all the households attend and deliberate on various issues.
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Kalajatha	The cultural performance used to motivate the rural community through, songs, skits, traditional plays, folklore, art, drama etc.
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Left over poor	These are the poor families who have been left out of the groups formed in different development programme.
Livelihood	'A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and social resources) and activities required for a means of living. A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets both now and in the future, while not undermining the natural resource base.' Adapted from Chambers, R. and G. Conway (1992) Sustainable rural livelihoods: Practical concepts for the 21st century. IDS Discussion Paper 296. Brighton: IDS.
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Mandal	An administrative unit smaller than a Block
Multidisciplinary Development Team (MDT)	MDTs operate mainly at division level (1 MDT per 50 watersheds). They are comprised pf senior line department functionaries offering technical support and advice to the Drought Prone Areas Programme.
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding between the village,panchayat or watershed committee to undertake the APRLP programme with certain criteria and conditions.It is an understanding between both the parties to abide to the rules and regulations fixed for execution of APRLP activities.
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Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI)	The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act greatly strengthened the position and role of PRIs (rural local bodies) as institutions of self governance responsible to plan and manage nearly all aspects of rural development. In AP, slow progress has been made with devolving powers and functions to PRIs. Most rural development activities continue to be managed by the district line departments and the DRDAs. PRIs are not involved in implementing watershed programmes.
Participatory Situational Analysis (PSA)	It is PRA tool used for collection of the data through Focussed Group Discussions with the help of Charts.
Peoples Participation	Involvement of people from planning to implementation of the project cycle for ensuring sustainability.
Primary Stake Holders	People who get direct benefit and who directly participates in planning and implementation of the APRLP Programme at the village level.
Project Director (PD)	The PD-DWMA has responsibility for all watershed works in the district. The PD-DRDA is responsible for all other centrally sponsored rural schemes in the district. Both PDs share equal status and respond to the District Collector.
Project Implementing Agency (PIA)	Government agencies/ staff or NGOs may be PIAs, or elected local bodies, whoever has the capacity to function. In general, each PIA is responsible for 10 watersheds. The PIA has to field one multidisciplinary Watershed Development Team (WDT), which handles 10 watersheds.
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Revolving Fund	The fund managed by SHG members
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Secondary Stake Holders	People who facilitates the APRLP programme and get the programme implemented through the Primary Stake Holders.
Self Help Groups (SHGs)	Formed of 15 to 20 women belonging to poor with homogenous factors of caste, income, occupation, location etc with a common activity of thrift and credit with regular meetings.
Self Monitoring Posters	The posters used for assessing the status of the CBOs (SHGs,WSCs,) on certain parameters which are depicted in the form of pictures and the SHGs or WSC can assess their status on these parameters every month.
Social Mobilisation (SM)	Social Mobilisation is the process of organizing different interest groups in a community to move forward with collective action on democratic basis with definite roles as well as the stakes in the sustainable management of watershed based livelihood approach.
State Watershed Programme Implementation and Review Committee (SWPIRC)	The SWPIRC has responsibilities for guiding and coordinating the watershed programme within the State. It is comprised of senior functionaries from a range of concerned departments and agencies. The Principal Secretary RD is the chairperson. TOP
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User Groups (UGs)	Group of farmers who come together to conserve or use natural resources of a watershed in a direct or indirect manner are called as a user group. The user group is responsible for planning, execution and maintenance of the structures created under watershed programme.
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Village Organisations (VOs)	Federation of the SHGs at the habitation level for promoting collective action and fund mobilisation for taking up various livelihood activities. VO functions with an executive committee of 5 to 10 members for planning implementing and execution of all the activities for the development of its members.
Village Professional	Village professionals will be selected from local communities at Watershed Association (WA) and SHG meetings. They will be supported by the Watershed Development Team (WDT), particularly the social mobiliser, by the GoAP line agencies and by NGOs helping with their work on health, savings, credit, and animal husbandry.
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Watershed	A topographically delineated area that can collect water and drained by a river system with an outlet. It includes all land areas extending from the ridge down to the stream for which water is collected. It is synonymous with catchment area or drainage basin.
Watershed Association (W(S)A)	Watershed Association comprises of all the families living within that watershed area of 500 hac. and who get direct or indirect benefit from the watershed programme.
Watershed Committee (W(S)C)	Watershed Committee is the executive body of the watershed Association to carryout the day to day activities of the watershed programme. Watershed Committee evolves from representatives from UGs and SHGs with women and resource poor families representing as half of the members.
Watershed Development Fund (WDF)	Is a fund collected from the beneficiaries during the execution of NRM activities in their lands. This fund deposited in a seperate account namely WDF and the same will be utilised for post project sustainalibity.
Watershed Development Team (WDT)	Each WDT is responsible for 10 watersheds. It is a team of four members of various technical disciplines which facilitates implementation of NRM activities at field level.
Wealth Ranking	This is a PRA technique used for identification of the poorest of the poor based on the criteria fixed by the community for defining poor. The information is elicited through the Focussed Group Discussions and the Gramasabha confirms the list of the families classified under different categories as poorest of the poor, poor, marginal(average) ,medium(good) and large(rich) families.
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Zilla Parishad (ZP)	District-Level Panchayati Raj Institution. Responsible for implementation of programmes at district level.