Uttarakhand is well known for its natural beauty and biodiversity is renounced as repository of big rivers like Ganga and Yamuna. In the recent decades, as a consequence of environment degradation and resource depletion in the hill areas due to soil erosion and denudation of hill is resulting in increase struggle to produce good amount of food grain. The migration of male member of the family for better livelihood options underlies the dependence of rural economy on women's shoulders. Deforestation and low water availability adds to their problems by spending more time is collection of fuel, fodder and fetching water. With such situation the government has realized the significance of taking up watershed based planning. For the success of watershed management strong institutional set is required for the collective action of local people. Women are the ultimate stakeholder in dealing with environment in a sustainable way. Institutions are important at grass root level in the integration of women in watershed management. The study was conducted on Uttarkashi and Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand. Six villages were selected using simple random sampling. Primary data had been collected by conducting interviews with 155 women and 145 men in six selected villages located within the watershed. It was revealed from the study that 92.66 per cent respondent reported watershed committee as important intuition provided training to women for skill development. Ninety six per cent of respondents were of the opinion that SHGs helped women to increase their economic independence. Therefore, the key objective of the study is to analyze the role of institutions related to gender mainstreaming in Integrated Watershed Management Project.