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This paper examines the usefulness of the sustainable livelihoods (SL) framework for development project analysis, applying it to research on decentralized watershed management in India. The author explores decentralization and its advantages to the SL framework, analyzing macro-level processes and frameworks for village-level analysis. He examines the links between administrative decentralization in the form of watershed management programs and democratic decentralization in the form of Panchayati Raj governance. The paper concludes that SL framework is a useful tool to analyze decentralized natural resource management.