2. What is the objective of the programme?
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The OTELP aims to 

	Build the capacity of marginal groups as individual, and grass roots institutions.
	Enhance the access of poor tribal people to land, water and forests and increase the productivity of these resources in environmentally sustainable and socially equitable ways.
	Encourage and facilitate off-farm enterprise development focused on the needs of poor tribal households.
	Monitor the basic food entitlements of tribal households and ensure their access to public food supplies.
	Strength institutional capacity of government agencies, Panchayati Raj Institutions, NGOs and civil society to work effectively for participatory poverty reduction with tribal communities.
	Encourage the development and pro-tribal enabling environment through ensuring that legislation governing control of, and access to, development resources by poor tribal households is implemented effectively and recommending other policy improvements.
	Build on the indigenous knowledge and values of tribals and blend these with technological innovations to ensure a speedier pace of development.

3. Where the Programme will be implemented?
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	The programme will be implemented in 30 CD blocks of 7 districts namely Koraput, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Gajapati, Rayagada, Nawrangpur, Malakanagiri in three phases. In the first phase 10 blocks of 4 districts has been taken for the implementation i.e. Koraput, Kandhamal, Kalahandi and Gajapati.

4. Who will get benefit out of this programme?
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The villages in which the schedule tribes and scheduled caste form not less than 60% of the population and where most households are below the poverty line will be selected under this programme.

5. Are the only ST people living in those villages will get benefit out of this programme?
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	No. The total population of the selected villages within the micro watershed will be covered under this programme.

6. What the programme comprises?
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The programme comprises of six components like

	Capacity building for Empowerment.
	Livelihood Enhancement.
	Support for Policy Initiatives.
	Development Initiatives Fund.
	Programme Management.
	Food Handling.

7. What is Capacity Building?
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	Capacity Building is a set of activities to access the existing skills/ strengths of the different stake holders in the programme and to increase their capacity through need specific trainings, exposures etc.

8. What is Empowerment?
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Empowerment is to make someone learn and ensure participation in decision making process. For example if we provide information to a woman about the current programmes implementing in her village and benefits of the programmes. If the woman use this information in a productive manner to get benefit and demand during the decision making process in the village, then we can say that the woman is empowered.

9. What are the capacity building programmes will be conducted during the programme and for whom?
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The programme will enhance the capacity of the different stake holders involved in this programme as per the need and requirement at different levels. Starting from the village level institutions to the state level institutions, different officials, NGO members, village level leaders, beneficiaries etc. will taken into the different capacity building programmes. The programmes would be skill development trainings, behavioral change trainings, awareness campaigns, motivation camps, exposure to similar kind of projects etc. The different support agencies will also be included in this programme.

10. What is Livelihood?
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	Livelihood could be explained as how the people access the resources (land, water, forest etc), what they get in the ways to access the resources, how they exploit the resources to build assets and how those assets reduce their vulnerability to stress (ill health, hunger etc)

11. How the programme will enhance the livelihood of poor people?
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The programme will support 

	Land and water management.
	Participatory forest management to regenerate degraded forest land and to develop NTFP processing and marketing enterprise.
	Improvements in agricultural productivity.
	Improvements in animal husbandry.
	Improved access to rural financial services through the promotion of self-help groups and credit groups and linking them with formal financing institutions to augment their capital base.
	Development of community infrastructure to fill critical gaps in the provision of key rural infrastructure (e.g. drinking water, village link road upgrading) and to provide for necessary economic (e.g. work sheds, stores, mills, expellers etc.) and social infrastructure (e.g. community hall).

12. What type of support the programme will render for policy initiatives?
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The programme will support the operationalisation of the government’s existing policy initiatives in relation to tribals access to land and forest products through

	Providing a legal defence fund to assist tribals in pursuit of land alienation/ restoration cases.
	Supporting operational costs for improved detection and disposal of land alienation cases and monitoring enforcement of land restoration orders.
	Funding the survey and settlement process for the hill slopes between 100 and 300 The programme will also fund studies to deepen understanding on other key policy issues and engage government in dialogue on unresolved policy area though a structured framework involving the establishment of milestones and a timetable for action.

13. How the development initiatives funds will be utilized?
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	The programme will provide flexibility to provide additional funding for well performing activities in demand from the communities and for new activities which become feasible and attractive in the course of implementation.

14. How the programme will be managed?
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The ministry of Tribal Affairs at the central level and the ST&SC development department at the state level are the nodal agencies for the programme. At the state level the programme would have a three tier management structure as follows: (i) the SHGs and VDCs as the main implementing agencies at the grassroots level; (ii) the ITDAs at the district level and (iii) a Programme Support Unit (PSI) within the ST/SC DD at the state level. Each block would generally be assigned to a facilitating NGO charged with providing support to the SHGs and VDCs for capacity building, micro planning and supervision. The programme will provide for flexibility in the provision of technical support services to the communities allowing for the NGOs to recruit their own technical staff or to enter into partnership with the line departments or other government/ private organizations. The programme will support the cost of programme management at state and also field level.

15. What is the programme cost, who funded the programme and how the cost has been distributed for different components?
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The total cost of the programme, over 10 years is estimated at USD 91 million. The proposed IFAD loan of USD 20 million would finance 22% of total programme costs and the DFID grant of USD 40 million would finance 44. Of the remainder, WFP would contribute USD 12 million (14%) in food assistance; the Government of Odisha, USD 9.7 million (11%); formal financial institutions, USD 0.4 million (1%); and the beneficiaries, USD 9 million (10%) in terms of their savings, voluntary labour contribution and funds for the maintenance of community infrastructure.

 16. How tribals get benefit out of this programme?
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This programme is meant for the development of the Schedule Tribe and Schedule Caste people of the 30 blocks of seven districts within 10 years of time period. The whole programme has been divided into three phases. Being a person of the programme village you will be get benefit out of the programme activities. If a person having his own land resources the agricultural development of the land will be done through this programme. Families having no land or depending upon forest or any other source of income, the programme will strengthen the existing source and also initiate other income generating activities by those families to ensure their livelihood and food security.

17. What are other similar kinds of programmes implemented by the Govt.?
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	There are number of programmes implemented by the Govt. through the respective line departments. Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry and many more development programmes are implemented by the Govt. and this types of watershed management programmes are also initiated by the State Watershed Mission.

18. Our and your language and thoughts are different. How you will understand our problems?
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	The programme will be implemented by the people of the village itself and facilitated by the local Non-Govt. Organisations working in the similar kind of the programme. So there will be no such differences arise during the implementation of the programme.

19. What is Watershed?
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Watershed is a geographic area drained by stream or a system of connecting streams such that all the surface run-off originating due to the precipitation in this area leaves the area in a concentrated flow through a single outlet. In other words watershed in defined as a drainage area whose’ run-off flows past one point. It is an entity from which water flows into a stream, lake or other point of drainage. Watershed may also be defined as the geographic area of over land (surface) drainage that contributes water to the flow of a particular stream of a chosen point. Therefore watershed is a water collecting and water-handling unit. For both scientific and functional management, micro watersheds of about 500 hectares each are taken for the development on the guide lines recommended by the Hanumanta Rao Committee.

20. What is Watershed Development?
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Watershed Development refers to treatment of an area to get different direct & indirect livelihood benefits through studying, taming, harvesting and utilizing water as it falls, flows or accumulates on a unit of land shaped by its influence. To tame the running water as well as to harvest it on site and reduce runoff and soil loss, soil and water conservation measures are applied. The effectiveness of these measures increases manifold when the water flow is treated from top to bottom across topo sequences on a watershed basis tackling both cause and effect through preventive and remedial measures.

21. Why a Watershed Management Approach?
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The watershed is not only a geo-hydrological unit, but it also includes the human beings living inside it and their interaction with the other living and nonliving resources inhabiting it including that of among them. The watershed approach aims at alleviating habitat and inhabitant impoverishment through a holistic approach of conservation & sustainable exploitation of natural & human resources considering both of them as part of a system where mutual responsibility and harmonious coexistence matters. The watershed development approach have evolved from externally imposed biophysical interventions towards more participatory approaches encompassing a broader range of activities for Human, Social, Natural and Physical assets defined in the sustainable livelihood (SL) framework. a. Human Capital: through capacity building activities; participation in new institutions and processes. b. Social Capital: through the formation of watershed committees; user groups and new or strengthened institutions. c. Natural Capital: through increases in trees, live-stocks, irrigated area, more productive land. d. Physical Capital: through increase in irrigation facilities, soil and water conservation structures.

22. What are some of the solutions to address watershed problems?
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There are three main activities that are recommended for a good watershed management practice:

	Rehabilitating lands that are source of sediment loss and chemical export
	Protecting the sensitive areas in the watershed so that resources can be conserved that may be spent in rehabilitation of the same, otherwise
	Improving the characteristics of water resources that affect the quality of water A watershed management team has to be a conglomeration of scientists and management professionals. They all should work on improving and expediting the process of improvement. There might arise a need for the education of the members on complex issues that may require an interdisciplinary approach of education. In that case the members can collaborate on the exchange of information. Public involvement is the key to a good management practice of the watershed. Public can provide useful information and its cooperation will help make the management plan a success. More importantly, funds for carrying out the process have be generated. These funds can come from governmental sources or from donations.