Research from Oxford University, in the UK, evaluates the social impacts of watershed development in Madhya Pradesh, India. ‘Propensity score matching‘ was used to compare the impacts from a control micro-watershed, where no interventions had taken place, and a treated micro-watershed.
The analysis focuses on changes in agricultural income and access to domestic water following several development interventions in the treated watershed. These include pond construction, tree planting and water harvesting terraces.
One of the findings was that there was a reduction in domestic water collection times for those households that had previously spent the longest time collecting water. However, despite these benefits, the majority of people were still without basic access to water.
To achieve more effective development impacts, there is a need for more rigorous and objective evaluation methods.
Read more: id21, 5 Apr 2008
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