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In the Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects, 2008, one of the guiding principles is Monitoring, Evaluation and learning. The principle states that “ A participatory, outcome and impact oriented and user focused monitoring and evaluation and learning system would be put in place to obtain feedback and undertake improvements in planning, projects design and implementation. “ Broadly the objectives of evaluation for watershed projects can be summed up as follows: 1. To obtain essential benchmark data related to the project and incorporating the same in DPRs. 2. To identify phase wise tangible outputs and behavioral outcomes that can be used in the long-term impact evaluation of the project. 3. To suggest improvement and initiate timely actions.