Watershed Organisation Trust - WOTR

Watershed Organisation Trust - WOTR

Pune, Maharashtra, India

About us

Established in 1993, WOTR is a non-profit that engages at the intersection of practice, knowledge and policy across scales and in collaboration with stakeholders from across sectors. Headquartered in Pune, WOTR has supported and carried out development work in over 3700 villages across 7 Indian states – Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha. WOTR is recognised widely as a premier institution in the field of participatory Watershed Development and Climate Change Adaptation. Its unique strength lies in its ‘on-field’ experience and in a systemic, participatory approach. WOTR was initiated to support a large-scale multi-actor, multi-level, multi- sectoral, community led watershed development program for poverty reduction called the Indo-German Watershed Development Program (IGWDP).

The WOTR Group consists of 4 institutions – the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR); the Sampada Trust (ST) for women’s empowerment and micro-finance; Sanjeevani Institute for Empowerment and Development(SIED) which is the implementation wing of WOTR; and Sampada Entrepreneurship and Livelihoods Foundation(SELF) that has been set up to promote social enterprises and livelihoods.
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Causes we work on

  • Welfare of War Veterans
  • Impact Assessment

Awards won

  • FICCI Water Award – 2013
  • Vasantrao Naik Puraskar - 2012
  • India Geospatial Excellence Award - 2012: Natural Resource Management-Water
  • Laadli Media Awards - 2012
  • Dr. Punjabrao Deskmukh Krushti Ratna - 2010
  • JSW-TOI Earth Care Award - 2010
  • Community Based Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change of “JSW-TOI Earth Care Award - 2010
  • Kyoto World Water Grand Prize - 2009
  • Nirmal Gram Puraskar - 2008
  • Aakar Jal Puraskar Award - 2006
  • Vasantrao Naik Award - 2001

Why work with us

To be a part of change, empowerment of women & rural communities and to adapt to climate change.
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Contact Details

  • 2nd Floor, The Forum, Padmavati Corner, Pune Satara Road, Pune 411 009
  • 2024226211
  • info@wotr.org
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