Subject(s): Citizen participation -- Rural development -- Watershed management -- impact of watershed development, biophysical and economic gains from special watershed projects, strengthening participatory processes with emphasis on increasing stake of poor -- Strengthening participation of women in watershed management, multi agency partnerships in watershed development, democratizing development Panchayati raj institutions in watershed development in India, capacity building among agencies and individuals, wider scale and stronger momentum -- Using subsidies for soil and water conservation, acid test, searching sustainability in watershed development, Indo- German watershed development, developing village funds to sustain watershed management -- development of degraded land, PRADAN, role of NGO's and cooperation's, role of women, biophysical results of watershed rehabilitation