Narrative Description of the Project:

The objective of the assignment is to develop a detailed, phased design of the participatory watershed management component, and project coordination with relevant capacity building elements, action plan for participatory management of resources and a mechanism for providing environment performance based community grants which will have a direct impact on rural poverty. The assignment included rapid rural appraisal and assessment of the natural resources of the project area and an institutional stakeholders’ assessment, namely to assess the institutional capacity for project implementation, to design project management arrangements, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and schemes for administering community grants. In addition, the assignment has defined the role of the key agencies – Ministry of Nature Protection, Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Environmental Inspectorates, environment and agricultural departments of Marzpetarans, and means to empower local communities to implement activities addressing their needs.

Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Rapid Rural Appraisals of the project area
• Natural Resources assessment of the project area
• Institutional analysis of the institutions involved in the project, e.g. MoNP, Ministry of Agriculture, etc.
• Development of Selection Criteria
• Conducting Participatory Planning Workshops to identify participants’ needs and priorities;
• Preparation of Watershed Management Plans
• Development of Menu of Options
• Other functions and duties stated in the Terms of References of the Watershed Management Component