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Discussion Paper on “Power, Authority and Deliberative Politics: Explaining the Stalemate of Nepal’s Terai Forest Governance.” Discussion paper series 12.1. ForestAction Nepal.

The March 2012 edition of the Growing Forest Partnership Newsletter. This edition includes news from GFP in-country projects (including GFP appearances on national television and radio in Ghana and Liberia), as well as Ban Chautari updates from Nepal. Link:http://www.growingforestpartnerships.org/gfp-newsletter-march-2012

An interaction program on the subject “Illegal logging in Terai and Forest Act amendment” with the media persons will be held from 8:30am to 12:00pm on 4 April 2012 at Indreni complex, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu.

An interaction program with the Civil Society Organization (CSO) members on the subject of “Forest Act Amendment Proposal 2012” is going to be held from 8.00 am to 11.00 am on 10th April, 2012 at Indreni Complex, New Baneshwor.

ForestAction is organizing and hosting a study tour/exposure visit for community leaders and government officials of Cambodia from 27 April to 3 May 2012. The visit program entitled “Natural Resource Management and Non-Timber Forest Products Technology and Governance Exposure Mission to Nepal”, is mainly aimed to provide insights for the visitors on how natural resources, with major focus on NTFPs, is being promoted and governed in Nepal. The visit team will get an opportunity to interact with the community forest user groups in Chitwan district as well as with the government officials on the range of issues related with natural resource management.[pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cambodia-study-tour-information.pdf” title=”Cambodia study tour information”]

ForestAction Nepal organized  press conference on “Current Issues on Agriculture Development Strategy”  on 4th May, 2012 at Sapfalcha, Babarmal, Kathmandu.

ForestAction in curbing corruption in forestry management through users group in Morang, Nepal For more information follow the link http://ptfund.org/2012/04/curbing-forestry-corruption-nepal/

International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) Collaborative Research Center (CRC) – ForestAction Nepal, expresses its deep condolences on the demise of founder of IFRI and Nobel Laureate Prof Elinor Ostrom. The world has lost an irreplaceable wealth in the field of Natural Resource Management sector with the passing of Elinor Ostrom. ForestAction family is deeply saddened by the news and would like to extend its commiseration to her family and near ones.

Copenhagen, Denmark (March 28-30, 2012)

WWViews on biodiversity is a global citizen participation project designed to provide policymakers with information about citizens’ views on biodiversity issues. It is a project towards the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) initiated by the Danish Ministry of the Environment to be co-implemented by countries (National partners) worldwide with coordination support from the Danish Board of Technology (DBT) and oversight from the Secretariat of the CBD. In this line, three days training workshop was organized by the DBT to participants from more than 25 countries at Copenhagen, Denmark from March 28-30, 2012.

The training Program at Copenhagen:

Participants (two each from participating country) from around 25 nations convened at Copenhagen to attend the training seminar on WWViews on Biodiversity. Two researchers from ForestAction Nepal participated during the 3 days training workshop. The training started at 1 pm of 28 March and lasted till 2 pm of 30 March 2012. Representatives and volunteers from DBT facilitated the training throughout. Some of the participants had already participated in the WWViews on Climate Change that took place in 2007, whereas others were totally new to this idea.

Most part of the training focused on how to recruit citizens in each country and different strategies to be used for that. Besides, individual participants were divided into groups where everybody had a chance to discuss on the issues and challenges associated with biodiversity conservation in their country. Also, appropriate country specific strategies to organize WWViews were also a part of the discussion. The participants also got opportunities to raise questions about the program and way ahead for the program.

For more information: http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?article=1739&survey=15&language=uk

The inception workshop (national and district level) of the research project “Enhancing livelihoods and food security from agroforestry and community forestry in Nepal” was organized from 12-13 May 2013 in Kathmandu, 14 May in Kavre and 15 May in Lamjung. The project is funded by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and will be implemented for five years (2013- 2018) in Kavre and Lamjung districts. The project partners are University of Adelaide, University of New South Wales, ICRAF, IUCN, Forest Action Nepal, Nepal Agroforestry Foundation, Search-Nepal, FECOFUN, IOF and CF division of the Department of Forests (DoF). Among the Nepalese research organizations IUCN is the national secretariat and ForestAction is taking the role of field coordination for the project.

ForestAction hosts and coordinates the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI)-Nepal Collaborative Research Center (CRC). IFRI-Nepal has collected data for more than 43 sites, and has completed 15 second revisits, and two third visits. Recently, coordinator of IFRI CRC – Nepal Dr Birendra Karna met Dr Arun Agrawal, coordinator of IFRI and discussed on the future programs and activities of IFRI in Nepal. In the coming months, ForestAction will conduct field research with a special focus on the research question to how social capital influences community forest outcomes. In assessing the role of social capital, the study will majorly focus on three ways in which social capital may influence local forest governance and outcomes: 1) at the individual level by influencing the levels of trust that households have over institutions and on the behaviour of their neighbours; 2) at the household level by increasing the willingness of the households to learn from their neighbours; and 3) at the community level by lowering the cost of institutional enforcement by increasing the ability of households.

The proposed study will be valuable in terms of fulfilling the gap of adequate existing research based on temporal data on community forests, analysis that combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, and the examination of tradeoff and synergies among multiple outcomes of forests. A total of 25 sites will be revisited for proposed project purpose where full range of IFRI research protocol will be administrated.

Refer to the link for more details: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ifri/nepal

ForestAction is facilitating the preparation of the District Agriculture Development Plan of Jumla in collaboration with EnDev. The project is financially supported by FASTENOPFER. The plan is going to be prepared in coordination with District Development Office (DDC), District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), District Livestock Office (DVO) and local NGOs. The field studies have been completed and the drafting of the plan is in progress