Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
Aga Khan Foundation (UK)

Project Code: 149-680-057	Start Date: 01-Apr-90	End Date: 01-Mar-93
Commitment: £143,000	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
The project is seeking to improve peoples livelihoods in the Panchamal District of north eastern Gujarat by expanding the area of land under productive and sustainable land use systems while at the same time benefitting the environment. Villagers will work to to build 18 lift irrigation schemes, 21 check dams and plant 12 million trees. In the process, and with additional investments in soil/water conservation about 3 000 hectares of land will also be rehabilitated. The project is expected to triple and sustain the incomes of families in 48 villages.

Project Objectives:
The project objective is to enable the beneficiaries to meet their needs for increased incomes, and more secure and sustainable livelihoods, through the following measures lift irrigation schemes and check dams to increase agricultural production outside the rainy season. a social forestry programme to generate valuable forest products as well as helping to conserve soil/water. small scale soil and water conservation measures to help rehabilitate degraded lands/contribute to increases in agricultural productivity.

Intended Outputs:
The intended outputs of the project are through the construction of irrigation schemes/dams to enable sustainable agriculture on some 3 000 hectares of land, also over a three year period to plant 12 million trees (of varying species/growth rates) which woul cover an area of some 17 500 hectares