SSMP (2002). Assessment of Sustainable Soil Management Activities by Farmers and Collaborating Institutions: Experiences with Projects from 1999 to 2001. Compiled by B. Shrestha. SSMP Document No. 85. Kathmandu, Nepal: Sustainable Soil Management Programme, Helvetas, Nepal.
It is increasingly realized that sustainable development cannot be achieved without full participation of local poeple in decision making at every stage of development process including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. In this regard, Sustainable Soil Management Program (SSMP) had conducted three year projects from 1999 to 2001 with 20 collaborating institutions (CIs) including Non-Governmental Organizations, Governmental Organizations and Community Based Organizations. After completion of projects, farmer and CIs had conducted an evaluation of projects to assess the effects on livelihood of farmers. At the farmer level, evaluation team of farmers (ETF) associated with one CI had assessed the project effect on farmers associated with another CI, referred to as ETF evaluation. At the CI level, CIs had assessed the project effect at farmers and at CIs themselves, referred to as CI self-evaluation. Besides, the CIs had prepared project completion reports. Thus, a desk study was carried out to summarize the experiences with sustainable soil management technologies, methods and approaches in one document. This document summarizes the experiences with the practice, adoption situation, opportunities and challenges of sustainable soil management technologies viz. farm yard manure, legumes, fodder and forage, vegetable, citrus, coffee, ginger, potato and groundnut. The experiences with sustainable soil management methods namely group approach, leader farmers to group farmer approach, couple farmer approach and farmer led experiments have well been documented. Working process and capacity building of collaborating institutions for institutional development on sustainable soil management have been summarized. The document discusses on evaluation by team of farmers and CI self-evaluation as project evaluation approaches.
My Brief Biography
- BASAN SHRESTHA
- I am Basan Shrestha from Kathmandu, Nepal. I am a development professional with expertise in socio-economic research, monitoring and documentation. I hold 3 master degrees 1) MSc in Regional and Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2002; 2) MSc in Statistics, Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1995; and 3) MA in Sociology, TU, 1997. I have gained professional experience for more than 10 years in socio-economic research, monitoring and documentation on agricultural and natural resource management. I had worked in Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, western Nepal from 1997 to 2000; CARE Nepal (SAGUN Program), mid-western Nepal from 2003 to 2006 and Western Terai Landscape Complex Project in far-western Nepal from 2006 onwards. I have published some articles to my credit. With my sound academic background and professional experience, I am much encouraged to undertake PhD to explore equity in Community Forest Management analysing both procedural and distributional aspects. Your kind cooperation, if any, to link with the concerned personnel and authorities would be instrumental and appreciated.
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