Monitoring of Watershed Management Programmes in India Experiences of the Indo-German Bilateral Project “Watershed Management” G.Honore1 and C.M.Pandey2 1Indo-German Bilateral Project ‘Watershed Management’,B-4/1 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057, India E-mail: info@watershedindia.org 2Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources Management Division Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi 110001, India E-mail: cmanil@hotmail.com Abstract: Watershed Management seems to be perceived by many as the only way to increase agricultural production in rainfed, marginal areas in India. Government of India and international donors are currently investing approximately 1000 millions USD / year into schemes dealing with watershed management. Unfortunately, more often than not, monitoring and evaluation does not get the required attention and therefore is very difficult to quantify or qualify the changes which have happened to natural resources but also to the liveli ...