LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT THROUGH WATER HARVESTING IN TAIL END

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Project Title : LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT THROUGH WATER HARVESTING IN TAIL END Name of Grantee Donor Grant Amount Grant Period Grantee Fiscal Year End Date of this Report : : : : : : Janakalyan Deshpande Foundation Fund US$ 47,491.00 April 15, 2011 to April 14, 2014 31 March April 24, 2013 (for grant period April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013, 2nd Interim Report)

The separate general ledger account used solely for Give2Asia funds had a balance of $0 (USD) on 03.31.2013.

Has your organization complied with the terms of the Grant Agreement to date? Yes If no, please explain:

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Interim Report - 2
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I. Interim Narrative Report: Janakalyan, with the support of Give2Asia (Deshpande Foundation fund), initiated an innovation integrated inspiring intervention in Gadag district of North Karnataka with the small & marginal farmers of tail end of Malaprabha Irrigation Project to address two extremes of water availability. The intervention started in April 2010 in 5 villages with 10 farmers which have now spread across 3 taluks of Gadag and Dharwad districts in more than 55 villages. This report is prepared at the end of 3rd year to document the progress during the reporting period (April 2012 March 2013). It was made possible to reach out to so many farmers of these villages to sustain their lives & livelihoods by the grants provided by G2A (DF Fund) during these periods. The summary of all such grants and respective outputs are furnished belowGrant Amount Grant Period Deliverables Achievement Status of Grant $21,678 01.04.2010- 10 tanks & 10 micro 10 tanks & 10 micro Completed & Final 31.03.2011 entrepreneurs entrepreneurs Report submitted $47,491 15.04.20111 Hitachi & 100 1 Hitachi & 27 tanks Grant Utilization 31.03.2014 tanks in 3 years with completed at the end Report submitted & administrative of 1st year (with this is the 2nd Interim support from DF additional admin Annual Report at the support from DF) end of 2nd year $11867 9.11.2012- 20 tanks out of 100 20 tanks excavated in 6 Completed and final 31.3.2012 agreed in above months duration as per report submitted to grant in 6 months the agreement Give2Asia & DF A. Project Implementation: 1st cycle of the grant ($21,678) was for a trial to know the receptiveness of the community towards water harvesting in Malaprabha tail end. Based on the overwhelming positive response, the 2nd cycle of grant ($47,491) was approved from April 2011 for 3 years to complete 100 tanks with a commitment to provide administrative and program support every year after 1st 6 months. Kindly note that this was first installment of the grant for 6 months with an understanding that Janakalyan would own an excavator to excavate 100 tanks in 3 years (2011-12 to 2013-14) and Deshpande Foundation through G2A would provide additional program and administrative grant for all these 3 years. Accordingly, an additional grant ($11,867) for the period of October 2011March 2012 was also provided by Deshpande Foundation through Give2Asia (for which a separate Final Report is submitted). However, it did not continue the support in 2012-13 as per the commitment. This volume of the report is 2nd interim Annual Report of 3 years project.

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1. Please describe the project activities that have been carried out to date The activities those were completed during the reporting period are not many (as there was no budget support from DF during this period). However, a brief report is prepared to assess the benefits of those structures 1.1. Project Concept Orientation to the new villages: In addition to the existing project villages, Janakalyan field team extended their extension services to other villages of Naragund & Ron taluks of Gadag district and Navalagund taluk of Dharwad district; i.e. Janakalyan has now reached its activities in 3rd taluk in 2nd district of Sandbox. 1.2. Selection of eligible farmers for water harvesting structures: The selection of farmers for excavation of water harvesting structures are done in 2 stages 1) Technical Feasibility by visiting the site proposed for excavation of the water harvesting structure and 2) Social Feasibility by visiting the house of the farmer to assess the interest of the family members and their willingness to participate in all activities under the project. 1.2.1 Technical Feasibility: Technical feasibility of the site proposed for excavation of the water harvesting structure is assessed by our technical experts by visiting the site along with the farmer. While assessing the site, we look at many angles of the site such as watershed area, soil condition, catchment area, etc. 1.2.2 Social Feasibility: Once, the technical feasibility is through, the team then visit the house of the farmer to assess the social feasibility in terms of interest of the family members to excavate a water harvesting structure, their interest in participating all other agricultureallied activities proposed as part of this intervention, socio-economic status of the family and such other factors contributing success of the project. 1.3 Excavation of water harvesting structures: Though there was no plan of excavating any water harvesting structure due to lack of funds, but could complete 8 structures during January-March 2013 thus achieving the total of 10+35 since commencement of the program. We propose rest would be excavated in next 2 years with the administrative and program support from Deshpande Foundation through Give2Asia as agreed in the beginning of the project. The 1st set of farmers details are furnished belowName of the farmer Land holding at Tank farm (acres) Ashok Udikeri 7.17 Basavaraj Gali 10.18 Mallappa Hadapad 9.11 Shanmukhappa M 7.10 Shankrayya Sali 4.14 Bapugouda Patil 3.30 Earanna Sanadenni 4.32 Siddappa Barikar 2.20 Dyamanna Gudagi 3.23 Bailappa Ittappanavar 3.05 Total 53.80 Tank size (acre) 0.50 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.25 1.00 0.50 0.25 0.25 0.50 6.25 Farmers Contribution (Rs) 33200 58840 61463 67550 19900 54510 34350 20750 18400 32540 401503 Project grant (Rs) 30000 50000 50000 50000 17500 50000 30000 17500 17500 30000 342500 Total Expenses (Rs) 63200 108840 111463 117550 37400 104510 64350 38250 35900 62540 744003

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Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 Name of the farmer Gurappa Choudi Suresh Gouda Ashok Hugar Rudrappa Village Survey Land Size of the Starting Completi Total Project Farmers number holding tank Date on date Expense grant Contribut (acres) (mXmXm) (Rs) (Rs) ion (Rs) 9945197331 312 4 90x33x3 6.5.11 18.5.11 128400 21000 107400 08377-263351 186/1 10 55x14x3 24.5.11 8.6.11 54300 22500 31800 948022946 9164106057 227 413 183 66 66 149 22 32 32 109 121/3 149 477 91/1 450 306 70/1 318 97 55 198 220 252 197 435 392 316 147 140 87/1 77/2 34 6.11 6.01 11.28 7.06 7.07 20 5 12.32 11 4 9 8 11 4.2 17.29 4 22.7 24 23 4 11 2.10 6 2.25 7.8 28.31 5 14 13.39 14.28 4.00 4.5 11 354.67 37x16x3 24x16x4 30x20x5 39x17x5 16x12x5 66X78X18 10.6.11 19.6.11 13.6.11 17.6.11 24.6.11 30.6.11 9.8.11 7.1.12 14.8.11 12.1.12 2.2.12 7.2.12 16.8.11 18.8.11 33600 40800 79200 77000 15000 43800 93200 35500 26800 22155 72061 88494 50223 59680 51872 58656 55330 58656 76982 64850 55328 53425 57128 58234 57430 51800 50500 48700 47200 45900 48700 65200 67100 1993204 15000 15000 22500 22500 7500 16000 24000 12000 12000 10000 19861 23894 16323 14280 16136 18600 25800 56700 54500 7500 27800 69200 23500 14800 12155 52200 64600 33900 45400 35736 Phone Number

Surkod Hadli Hadli Hadli

5 Smt.Sushila Kannur Belawaniki 9902223105 6 Naglingareddy M Arasangudi 9448232438 7 8 9 10 11 12 Akkamma K Shamburao Venkareddy Fhakirappa Veerappa Duragappa Arasangudi 9900441414 Arashingudi 9902375439 Arashingudi 9964114702 Arasangudi 8722589998 Arashingudi 9663038372 Neeralgi Neeralgi Neeralgi 9916938120 9731960641 991410543

160X100X13 12.1.12 26..1.12 85X65X11 25.1.12 130X60X16 3.2.12

Arashingudi 8970683284 23/1/2

65x55x18 11.2.12 14.2.12 180X118X11 17.2.12 24.2.12 100X60X17 25.2.12 3.3.2012 80X50X18 4.3.12 7.3.12 70X60X15 8.3.2012 11.3.12 70X60X14 12.3.12 16.3.12 85X45X14 17.3.12 20.3.12 80X50X14 85X45X14 100x90x12 100x70x15 100x80x14 80x50x11 80x50x11 80x50x11 80x50x11 140x66x8 85x43x12 80x60x12 74x45x8 99x42x12 90x50x11 105x65x10 100x60x10 21.3.12 26.3.12 30.3.12 12.4.12 20.4.12 22.4.12 3.4.12 7.4.12 17.4.12 11.2.13 16.2.13 21.2.13 27.2.13 5.3.13 12.3.13 17.3.13 25.3.13 25.3.12 29.3.12 2.4.12 16.4.12 22.4.12 24.4.12 7.4.12 11.4.12 20.4.12 15.2.13 19.2.13 26.2.13 4.3.13 11.3.13 16.3.13 27.3.13 30.3.13

13 Basavaraj Ronad 14 Basavaraj Onagiri 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Parappa Suresh Kulkarni Mahanthapapa

Belawaniki 9731700209 Belawaniki 8197022378 Belawaniki 9880575443 9731536263 9535124748 9902474327 9901616252 8970003690 9741527640 9972706780 9972537005 8970097447 9972606965 9845967646 9902474327 8970289023 8197022378 9740424474 9741044569

17 Sharana Basappa

SB Chikkareddy Belawaniki Siddalingesh U S Belawaniki Gopal Reddy Belawaniki Raju Gowda Hadagali Jagadish Bhoklapur Hadagali Sangappa Irappa Hadli Irappa Hadli Yallappagowda M Hadli Madappa Hadli Srikant Mallapur Laxmikant Belawaniki Pravin Kumar Belawaniki Shivappa Belawaniki Shiva Reddy Belawaniki Somappa N H Belawaniki Savitri S H Belawaniki Shankarappa H Belawaniki Total Percentage

17528 41128 14280 41050 17528 41128 17854 59128 24000 40850 16000 39328 16000 37425 16000 41128 16000 42234 16000 41430 17000 34800 17000 33500 17000 31700 17000 30200 17000 28900 17000 31700 25000 40200 25000 42100 613684 1379520

30.79% 69.21%

The above table depicts that the team has been successful to raise the farmers contribution to the tune of Rs.13,79,520 (69.21%) in terms of excavation of 35 water harvesting structure during the reporting period of 2 years while the project share remained Rs.6,13,684 (30.79%). Though we have achieved the agreed target, the high cost sharing by the farmers is also a

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factor for less excavation of tanks during the year in addition to all other factors stated elsewhere in this report.

1.4 Demonstration of effective water usage methods: The belief of Janakalyan team to implement this program are1. If water is provided to the farmers, rest they would take care themselves 2. Like a house to a city-dweller, water harvesting structure is important to a famer. 3. Cost sharing brings ownership among the participating farmers and sustainability to the initiative.

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With these beliefs, Janakalyan initiated the interventions in Malaprabha Tail end and thus the focus was only on creation of water harvesting structure to provide water and nothing else with cost sharing approach. However, farmers required some sort of orientation and exposure to various productive units to make effective use of scarce resources like land & water in order to enhance productivity and in turn the livelihood security. The cropping pattern that is seen with these set of farmers during the year are as underCrop Sown during 2012-13 (area in acre) Sl. Name of the Bengal Sunflo Onion Sorgh Cotton Vegeta Groun No. farmer Cotton Onion Maize Chilly Wheat Total Gram wer Seeds um Seed ble dnut st Crop Diversification in the farms of farmers of 1 batch identified in 2010-11 1 Ashok Udikeri 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0.5 0 0 5.5 2 Basavaraj Gali 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 8 3 Mallappa Hada 6 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 10 4 Shanmukhapp 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 5 Shankrayya S 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 6 6 Bapu Gouda P 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 Earanna Sanna 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 Siddappa Barik 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 Dyamanna G 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 Bailappa Vittap 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 Sub Total 13 1 0 2 2 1 34 0 0 0.5 4 0 57.5 Percentage 23% 2% 0% 3% 3% 2% 59% 0% 0% 1% 7% 0% 100%

The 1st set of farmers were selected for the demonstration in 2010-11 who have completed 2 successful crop years excluding the year of excavation of water harvesting structures. The table above clearly depicts that the crop diversification has happened over the period of time since introduction of Janakalyans Jan Krishi project with these set of farmers. Single crop cultivation was practiced when we initiated our intervention but now we can see about 8 varieties of crops among these farmers.

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However, it is to be noted that shift from dry to wet crops is yet to be taken place among these farmers. It is taking longer time than usual. The reason found out by Janakalyan team is size of the water harvesting structure. Because, the farmers with bigger tanks have inclined for vegetables while those with medium and small tanks are reluctant. These tanks are still not perennial source of water due to their size limitation. The farmers selected from subsequent years have different results at the end of 1st crop year excluding the year of excavation. The data furnished in the table below for ready referenceCrop Sown during 2012-13 (area in acre) Sl. Name of the Bengal Sunflo Onion Sorgh Cotton Vegeta Groun No. farmer Cotton Onion Maize Chilly Wheat Total Gram wer Seeds um Seed ble dnut Crop Diversification in the farms of farmers of 2nd batch identified in Rabi 2011-12 1 Gurappa 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 Suresh Gouda 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 Rudrappa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 12 4 Ashok 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 Sushila 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14 6 Nagalingaredd 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 Akkamma 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Crop Diversification in the farms of farmers of 3rd batch identified in Kharif 2011-12 8 Shamburao 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 10 9 Venkareddy 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 Fhakirappa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Veerappa 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 Duragappa 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 Basavaraj Ron 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 14 Basavaraj Ona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 15 Parappa 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 11 16 Suresh Kulkarn 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 17 Sharana Basap 5 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 11 18 Mahanthapapa 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 19 SB Chikkaredd 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 SiddalingeshU 8 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 18 21 Gopalreddy 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 8 22 Aanand Gouda 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 23 Jagadish Bhokl 0 0 0 0 0 12 4 0 0 0 0 0 16 24 Sangappa Irap 1.5 1.5 0 2.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.5 25 Irappa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 26 Yallappagowda 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 27 Madappa 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Crop Diversification in the farms of farmers of 4th batch identified in Kharif 2012-13 28 Srikant 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 29 Laxmikant 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 30 Pravin Kuma 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 31 Shivappa 8 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 12 32 Shiva Reddy 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 33 Somappa N 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 4 34 Savitri S 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 35 Shankarapp 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 11 Sub Total 109.5 1.5 0 8.5 0 12 115 4 0 0 21 1 272.5 Percentage 40% 1% 0% 3% 0% 4% 42% 1% 0% 0% 8% 0% 100%

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The table above depicts that the crop diversification is yet to take place among these set of farmers who have completed 1st crop year after excavation of these water harvesting structures. Most of the farmers (45%) are still going for Bengal gram. They will take some more time to stabilize their land use. Productivity and profitability analysis at the end of the cropping season after harvesting the crops are furnished in the following tableSl. Name of the Land 2011-12 No Farmers holdingCropped Expendi Yield Return (acre) area ture
1 Ashok Udikeri 2 Basavaraj Gali 3 Mallappa Hadapad 4 Shanmukhappa M 5 Shankrayya Sali 6 Bapu Gouda Patil 7 Earanna Sanadeni 8 Siddappa Barikar 9 Dyamanna Gudigi 10 Bailappa Vittappan Total Percentage

2012-13 Net Croppe Expendi Yield Return Profit d area ture

178100 190500 64500 99700 98000 4000 142800 74500 56000 70750 978850 228% 5.5 8 10 9 6 3 6 3 3 4 57.5 107% 120000 100000 300000 65000 15000 18000 20000 15000 15000 20000 688000 170000 120000 300000 5000 15000 2000 40000 10000 18000 38000 718000 104%

Net Profit
50000 20000 0 -60000 0 -16000 20000 -5000 3000 18000 30000 4%

1st batch farmers identified in 2010-11

7.17 10.18 9.11 7.10 4.14 3.30 4.32 2.20 3.23 3.05
53.8 11 13 8.2 9 4 3.2 4.2 2.3 3 5.2 63.1 117% 74000 86000 35000 47500 50000 14000 50000 23500 28000 185 165 76 57 37 22 66 27 21 252100 276500 99500 147200 148000 18000 192800 98000 84000 91250 1407350 328%

20500 53.5 428500 709.5

We had a target of increasing the land use intensity by 20% while the table above shows that the land use intensity has increased by 17% by the end of 1st year, i.e. at least 17% of the total available land is being cultivated twice. It is worth mentioning that this is a bad year for the farmers as there was almost nil rainfall during the rainy season. It is a drought year for the farmers, and even in this drought, 107% of land use is a big achievement, which was possible only because of the water harvesting structures available with these farmers. The case is different with farmers NOT having a water harvesting structure. The net profit for these 10 farmers was about 228% in the previous year after excavation of the tanks but the same has gone down to 4% during the year due to severe drought. None of the farmers could fill their tanks. However, the case is different with the farmers having no tanks. They could not even go for sowing due to lack of moisture as well as irrigation water. Most of their lands were fallow during the year. But farmers with tanks could at least engage themselves in cultivation and at the end of the year fetched 4% profit against zero or even negative in many cases for other farmers. Further, intervention of Janakalyan was zero with these farmers during the current year as we did not receive the administrative grant from the DF. The farmers cultivated as per their

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traditional practices without any technical inputs. There are ways which could have been introduced to tolerate drought and gain profit out of agriculture. The farmers who have been selected for the demonstration of benefits of the water harvesting structures in tail end of Malaprabha Irrigation Project in 2011-12 have just completed 1 year after excavation of the structures. The data related to these farmers are furnished below for analysis. These farmers are grouped into 2 groups as they have been selected in rabi and kharif season of the year as underSl. No. Farmers Land 2011-12 holdingCropped Expendi Yield Return (acre) area ture
13 9 9 8 16 6 7.07 68.07 132% 73500 137 74000 98 55000 87 76000 74 79000 147 45000 36 79000 95 481500 674

2012-13 Net Croppe Expendi Yiel Return Profit d area ture d

Net Profit

2nd batch farmers identified in Rabi 2011-12

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Gurappa 4 Suresh Gouda 10 Rudrappa Sankoppad 6.11 Ashok Hugar 6.01 Smt.Sushila Kannur 11.28 Nagalingareddy 7.06 Akkamma Khajjidoni 7.07 Total 51.53 Percentage Shamburao Venkareddy Fhakirappa Veerappa Duragappa Basavaraj Ronad Basavaraj Onagiri Parappa Suresh Kulkarni Sharana Basappa Mahanthapapa SB Chikkareddy Siddalingesh U S Gopalreddy Aanand Gouda Jagadish Bhokla Sangappa Irapp Irappa Yallappagowda Madappa Total Percentage Grand Total Percentage 205000 131500 40000 9 172000 98000 50000 7 143000 88000 12 25000 137000 61000 50000 8 167000 88000 14 50000 85000 40000 90000 4 164000 85000 40000 7 1073000 591500 61 345000 0 223% 123% 118% 126500 110000 200000 215000 9000 32500 60000 94000 56000 380000 38000 238500 214000 146000 132000 74500 70000 87000 143000 5000 22500 38000 58000 28000 180000 28000 153500 96000 78000 84000 20000 -20000 0 -50000 50000 25000 60000 10000 60000 10000 190000 100000 60000 20000 440000 95000 128% 28% 75000 50000 50000 26000 0 0 30000 10000 36000 17000 30000 -20000 3500 -4500 100000 40000 20000 5000 110000 23000 30000 15000 120000 0 156000 41000 60000 20000 20000 0 280000 160000 130000 90000 15000 8500 30000 10000 0 -25000 1295500 466000 156% 56% 1735500 561000 148% 48%

3rd batch farmers identified in kharif 2011-12

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 10 20 5 5 12.32 12.32 11 11 4 4 9 9 8 8 11 11 4.2 4.2 17.29 17.29 4 4 22.7 22.7 24 24 11 23 9 4 11 2.1 6 2.25 7.8 208.66 162.51 78% 89% 25000 10 24000 4 0 0 20000 4 19000 3 50000 9 8000 4 60000 11 15000 4 87000 11 15000 4 120000 20 115000 18 40000 8 20000 5 120000 16 40000 5.5 6500 1 20000 3 25000 4 906000 3017.5 2051500 1145500 144.5 829500 0 226% 126% 69% 225% 125% 79% 52000 133 40000 100 113000 130 72000 205 4000 6 10000 5.5 22000 68 36000 115 28000 80 200000 1530 10000 10 85000 94 118000 254 68000 185 48000 102

260.19 230.58 1387500 3691.5 3124500 1737000 205.5 1174500 0

The land use intensity in 2011-12 for 2nd set of farmers was 132% while that for the 3rd set of farmers was 78%; does it mean that the land use intensity increases as the farmers become more acquainted
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Farmers

2011-12 Land Cropped Expendi Yield Return holding area ture (acre)
28.31 5 14 13.39 14.28 4.00 4.5 11

2012-13 Net Croppe Expendi Yield Return Profit d area ture

12 5 12 12 7 4 4 11 67 71% 36000 15000 45000 40000 40000 12000 10000 35000 233000 30000 35000 55000 25000 25000 20000 25000 35000 250000 107%

Net Profit
-6000 20000 10000 -15000 -15000 8000 15000 0 17000 7%

4th batch farmers identified in kharif 2012-13

38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Srikant Laxmikant Pravin Kuma Shivappa Shiva Reddy Somappa N Savitri S Shankarapp Total Percentage

The above table depicts that, the land use intensity for the 4th set of farmers is 71% i.e. the total land available with these farmers have not been able to cultivate during the year. The profit margin is only 7% against the investment made in cultivation. This set of farmers have
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excavated their water harvesting structures from January 2013 onward and thus have not been able to take benefit of the tank and thus we have not compared their productivity but the data of current year has been documented as baseline so that next year the same could be analyzed.

From all these discussions, it is clear that the profitability is high with farmers having a water
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harvesting structure while that is very low (7%) in the case of farmers having no such facility. Similarly, the land use intensity is also high in the case of farmers having a tank (79%) even in the drought year but that is low (71%) in the case of farmers having no such facility.

2. If the actual project activities differed from the activities described in the proposal, please explain why. If necessary, provide a revised working plan for the remainder of the project. As of now, the project is moving as per the plan document without any deviation except that the tanks excavation did not proceed in 2012-13 for the want of grant from G2A (DF). With our own sources, we have excavated 8 tanks only for 8 new farmers.

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B. Project Outcomes & Impact: Major outcomes and impacts of the project interventions at the end of reporting period are narrated in the subsequent sections of the report. 1. Please describe your progress to date in achieving the purpose of the grant. What have been the major achievements of this project so far? The major achievements of the grant as on date could be summarized as in the table below (based on the indicators agreed in the plan document)Sl. No. Deliverables / Outcomes Status at the end of 2nd quarter 1 Excavation of 100 irrigation tanks Total 35 water harvesting structures have been in three years (2011-12 to 2013-14) excavated with the new Hitachi; 10 tanks were to harvest runoff and excess water excavated in 2010-11 from the irrigation canals for life saving irrigation to the standing crops 2 Increase in productivity by about The land use intensity for the 1st set of farmers 20% than that of current (who are using the tank for more than 2 years) has productivity through diversification increased to 107% while that for the 2nd set of of cropping pattern through this farmers (who have excavated the tank during the intervention with the participating last year) is 118% and that for 3rd set is 69%. farmers 3 Generating funds from other As of now the excavator is generating its own cost sources (revenue generation of maintenance without any surplus. through Hitachi) to sustain tank excavation program in the sandbox In Addition.. Participate in quarterly partners 1 Quarterly Partners meet was organized during 5 meet and annual conference the year and Janakalyan participated in it. Development Dialogue. Carry out timely and appropriate Quarterly Reports in excel sheet submitted before 6 submission of quarterly reports to the due dates to DF Deshpande Foundation in prescribed format Proactively participate in various Participated in all programs/activities organized 7 events that are organized for the by DF during the year benefit of the grantee and participants in the programs.

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2. Please compare your actual project achievements to date to the specific goal(s) and outcomes described in your proposal. Please explain any differences or variance. The deliverables agreed for the project period are tabulated with the status on each of these deliverables against themSl. No. Deliverables / Outcomes Status at the end of 1st quarter 1 More than 100 Farmers About 111 farmers have applied for water harvesting convinced about water structure by paying Rs.100 each towards the harvesting concept application form; additional 41 farmers have been reached during the 2nd quarter also along with an extension of the project area to Navalagunda taluk too. Similarly, the efforts have been put to reach out to farmers of Gadag taluk too with the help of BCI team. Process of reaching out more and more new farmers are on and the field team is putting sincere efforts in this regards 2 Purchasing one new Hitachi (EX- Purchased Tata Hitachi EX-70 immediately after 70) to excavate tanks in the receiving the grant with an investment of Rs.25.25 sandbox lakh out of which Janakalyan has put its internal funds to the tune of Rs.7.25 lakhs. 3 Excavation of 100 irrigation About 35 tanks have already been excavated during tanks in 3 years with the reporting period with many limitations administrative support from DF 4 Mobilizing (50%) farmers share It was planned to mobilize 50% farmers share to the tune of Rs.35,00,000 in 3 towards excavation while we have achieved 69.21% years till date (Rs.1379520/- out of Rs.1993204). The target was Rs.35,000 per tank while we have achieved Rs.39415 of farmers contribution per tank.

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The income expenditure statement of Hitachi for the year 2012-13 is furnished below to assess its feasibilityExpenditures Agricultural Engineer Travel Diesel Expenses Tractor, Driver Bhatta, Food and Other Expenditure Grease Expenses Honorarium Hitachi Service Charge Other Hitachi Related Expenses Rent Water and Electricity Salary of Hitachi Operator Salary of Hitachi Helper Telephone Internet and Cell phone Unspent amount (to be recovered) Total Amount 3,000 269,896 273,100 4,597 45,839 59,205 48,247 21,500 103,610 5,200 500 40,933 875,627 Income Opening Balance Bank Interest Farmer share for water harvesting structures Farmer share for diesel cost Revenue generation using Hitachi Amount 21,068 4,079 273,100 150,500 426,880

Total

875,627

It is clear from the table above that the revenue generated during the year while excavating 8 water harvesting structures as well as other works is about Rs.875,627 including the opening balance of Rs.21068. The cost centers are also furnished along with respective amount spent during the year. It is evident from the table that hardly the operator and helper salary could be maintained out of the revenue that is generated. Due to shortage of funds, we could not appoint a helper throughout the year. The salary of the Hitachi Manager is managed by Janakalyan throughout the year except for few months which is booked in this project. However, it is to be noted that about 8 new water harvesting structures have been excavated during the year at subsidized rates. This was about 360 Hitachi hours; if we calculate the amount that has gone to these 8 farmers as subsidy, it would be about Rs.154000 @ Rs.850 per hour. It would have been a profitable venture had we not been given this subsidized rate to the farmers. This means, once we complete the target of 100 water harvesting structures, the machine would generate revenues to manage the program of its own if not surplus. The team is happy about the achievement at the end of the 2nd year of intervention but only issue is that the Hitachi use is not as efficient as it was planned; though, the machine could be used even with small-little rainfall but the farmers remain engaged in farm activities and also because of the standing crops in the land, they are reluctant to take up any works during this period. Even, the revenue generation activities could also not been able to take up due to same reason. However, the maintenance and operator cost is still incurred during this period.

The indicator/deliverable analysis reveals that we have far ahead of what was planned for the year in terms of achieving the indicators/deliverables agreed upon.

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II. Interim Financial Report Please complete the following table or attach a financial report listing and summarizing all grant expenses to date. If necessary, please refer to page 7-8 of Give2Asias Grantee Manual for sample financial reports. The manual can be downloaded from our website: www.give2asia.org/granteemanual. A. Include original budget submitted to Give2Asia for this project: The original budget submitted to Give2Asia through Deshpande Foundation is used for reporting for this quarter. B. Itemize expenditures made from grant funds, such as salaries, rent and electricity, travel, and supplies (for interim and final reports)
ORIGINAL EXPENDITURES BUDGET AS DESCRIBED IN YOUR PROPOSAL BUDGET Apr-Oct 2011 Personnel Program Costs Equipment Travel Staff Training/ Capacity building Office/ administrative costs Measurement & evaluation costs Stipends Other Expenditures TOTAL
ACTUAL FUNDS EXPENDED

FY 1 (INR)

FY 2 (INR)

TOTAL in INR

Total in USD

**The Fiscal Year (FY) is the same as the organizations accounting year, and may be different from the grant period. Please add or delete FY columns as needed.

C. Grantee fiscal year end date: March 31 D. Total grant funds spent by the end of grantees most recent fiscal year: Total amount spent as on 03.31.2013 is zero E. Amount of grant funds unspent to-date*: The unspent amount as on 03.31.2013 is Rs.0 ($0) *If this is the end of the grant period, and grant activities are complete but not all grant funds have been spent, please contact Give2Asia as soon as possible to discuss.

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CERTIFICATION
Name of Grantee: Janakalyan Donor: Deshpande Foundation Fund Grant Amount: US$ 47,491.00 Grant Period: April 15, 2011 to April 14, 2014 Grantee Fiscal Year End: March 31

I certify that the grant funds described in this report have been received and expended as detailed above in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement. These expenditures are substantiated by documentation in our files.

Name: PRASEN RAPTAN Title: Executive Director Date: 04.24.2013

*this signed certification MUST be submitted with any report for Give2Asia.

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