VDC [Village Development Committee] level : WUMP [Water Use Master Plan] review and baseline : year 2011 guidelines

Water use master plan (WUMP) has been prepared by 47 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Rural Village Water Resource Management Project (RVWRMP) districts. Of those, 20 VDCs have prepared their WUMP in 2007 and 27 VDCs prepared in 2008. The WUMP was prepared by rigorous participation of communities and local leaders of VDC. The VDCs have been implementing water sector activities using priority lists of five year plan of the WUMP since past two ‐ three years. This is now time for updating the WUMP and also review by adding more activities in cross‐cutting water sectors issues such as livelihood, watershed conservation, health, nutrition, etc. This guideline provides instructions on updating the data and review the base WUMP by the VDC with facilitation of experts and enumerators. The WUMP review is focused on minimum basic requirement of updating the information to explore present level of facilities. The WUMP review produces further plan with serious care for not to damage the previous priority setting done by exhaustive participation. [authors abstract]