This paper reviews the latest policy responses towards mainstreaming climate adaptation through watershed development in rainfed farming systems of India, with reference to the multilevel governance structure from which they emerge. It employs a qualitative text review of the policy documents such as National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), relevant National Missions and selected State Action Plans for Climate Change (SAPCCs) and uses an illustrative case of action responses from the multilevel network of non-state actors. Through this exercise, it finds that the multilevel structure of these domains here offer facilitations as well as obstacles for proposed mainstreaming. The obstacles are in two forms. The first is yet an incomplete process of policy integration across different levels of governance. The second is the already existing set of challenges before watershed development in India, such as governance fragmentation, equity concerns in participation, and capacity-building and intercommunication between the levels. The facilitation comes through extra sources of knowledge and innovation from various state and non-state actors and their networks in multilevel systems, which need to be tapped in the current drive of mainstreaming for achieving the ends of climate adaptation in rainfed farming systems.
Chaudhari, VR; Mishra, A
Multilevel policy responses to mainstream climate adaptation through watershed development in rainfed farming systems of India
Climate And Development