Monitoring and Review of the State Partnership Programme for Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan

2008 to 2013

£1.8 million

European Commission

Project management; monitoring and evaluation; water sector planning and management

The Project provides support for and participation in the six-monthly review missions assessing progress of the State Partnership Programme against the Programme’s purpose and goal and its planned activities and outputs. 

The State Partnership Programme (SPP) supports national and donor strategies (the National Indicative Programme 2004-06, NIP) and the EC India Country Strategy Paper (CSP 2002-06). An important collaborative programme, it is framed by the India CSP objectives of poverty alleviation, environmental protection and management, and improving governance. It also supports the objectives of the NIP in its (i) pursuit of a sector approach with state governments; (ii) focus on sustainable policy and institutional reform; and (iii) enhancing the capacity of local government.

The target SPP states have determined their own priorities for intervention and EC partnership support. The sector focus and proposed interventions reflect the realities and issues of the state, namely:

• Chhattisgarh:  to strengthen the education and health systems and increase the real income of tribal groups from Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) activities; and,
• Rajasthan:  to support State-wide water reforms and capacity building in the PRIs.

HTSPE is working as part of team led by GHK Consulting Ltd. The team is responsible for:

• Logistics and organisation of the six-monthly Joint Review Missions; participation in meetings with other JRM members; ensuring consistency in approach, methodology and reporting;
• Consultancy in assessing progress made in the education, health and water sectors;
• Consutancy in assessing reforms in the decentralisation of public services to local governments (the Panchayati Raj institutions);
• Consultancy in assessing the improvement in livelihoods for primary tribal groups in relation to ownership and control over livelihood institutions in forested zones;
• Advice on good practice in monitoring and evaluation;
• Advice on the release of payments from the EC to the State Governments of Chhattisgargh and Rajasthan.