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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

Fourth module of apprenticeship course for Agriculture Group was conducted from 15 -22 April 2013 at Hasera Farm, Kavre. The module for the group was focused on providing permaculture techniques to the participants.

Ban Chautari on “ Democratization of Annapurna Conservation Area Management”  was organized on 15 July, 2012 at Sap Falcha, Kathmandu.   [pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ban-Chautari_ACAP_Synthesis-Report_18July2012.pdf” title=”Ban Chautari_ACAP_Synthesis Report_18July2012″]

ForestAction organized a five days basic health training for the participants of apprenticeship course (health group- 4 participants) at Kathmandu Model Hospital. The time duration of the training was 6th- 10th May, 2013.

ForestAction in collaboration with Oxfam Honk Kong (OHK) is working with farmer’s network, CSOs and partner NGOs of Livelihood Environment Program (LEP) in its five working districts since 2012.The program is extended for the year 2013 as well. In this regard, an inception workshop on ‘Organizing and empowering farmers and Civil Society Organizations for national agriculture policy influence program’ was held on 8-9 April, 2013, Kapilvastu. The workshop involved the participants from AGBS and KSSC kapilvastu, TMUC Gorkha, SAHAMATI Nawalparasi, SWOG Udayapur , FOPA Arghakhachi, Forestaction, and OHK. The main purpose of the inception workshop was to agree and refine the project’s work with a common understanding among its partners. Furthermore, review and reflection on previous year work and planning for ongoing year was also discussed.

[pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Timber-Ban-Chautari-presentation-July-27.pdf” title=”Timber Ban Chautari presentation-July 27″]Ban Chautari on “Timber Enterprise and National Economy: Challenges of Timber Price Integration” was organized on 30th July, 2012 at Sapfalcha, Babarmahal, Kathmandu

Registrations open for International Conference on Forests, People and Climate: Changing Paradigm to be organized on August 28-30, 2013.

A half day interaction program on ‘Forestry sector policies in Nepal’ has been organized on 8th April 2013. More than 20 participants, representing different civil society organizations (CSOs), participated in the program and discussed on the forestry sector policies of Nepal, its challenges and opportunities for CSOs for constructive roles and contributions. The major issues raised by the participants were-how CSO’s presence could be made effective; how representatives of the CSO’s could represent the diverse constituencies of the CSOs; what might be the methods through which all CSOs could have spaces to contribute and play pro-active roles; the methods through which CSOs become informed about their presence in the policy processes and could do deliberations; the methods which could blend positivistic and pragmatic knowledge; and the ways through which CSO’s presence could be made meaningful in the forestry sector policies.

A “National Workshop on Value Chain Analysis and Resource Sustainability for NTFP based Enterprise Development” was held in collaboration with ForestAction, FECOFUN and University of Minnesota on 29th July 2012, Sunday, 8 a.m. at Siddhartha Foodland, Old Baneshwor.

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