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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.

Call for paper announcement for the special issue of Hamro Ban Sampada on REDD+.  More Details

An informal discussion program on “Review and further planning on the engagement of various stakeholders in ongoing and upcoming agriculture policy formulation process” was held on Friday, 29 March 2013 (afternoon) at Hotel Greenwich, Kupondole. The expected representatives were from the ministry, departments, I/NGOs, farmers groups/federations and media.

World wide views on Biodiversity Citizens meeting was organized on september 15, 2012 in  Kathmandu.

Around 100 Nepali citizens from diverse backgrounds will gather on September 15, 2012 in Kathmandu to express their views on biodiversity issues. This is a global consultation meeting which will be participated by thousands of citizens in 25 countries in five continents. The event is named as World Wide Views (WWViews) on Biodiversity where at least 100 citizens will gather in each participating country to share their views on biodiversity. The daylong event will start from dawn in the Pacific and end in the Americas. The participants during the program will represent different geographic location (Mountain, Hills, Terai), age groups, ethnicity, educational level and occupation. The main aim of the event is to create awareness among the participants on issues pertaining to biodiversity as well as scale up the voices to national and global policy makers. The results obtained during the event, along with those from rest of the countries will be presented during the Conference of Parties (COP) 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in India on October, 2012.

Behavioral and choice experiment on REDD+ in Dolakha district

A team from ForestAction Nepal along with Prof. Randell Bluffstone of Portland State University visited Dolkaha district on 25-26 January, 2013. The main objective of this visit was to conduct a trial on the choice card prepared for the choice experiment and behavioral experiment for the project entitled “Nepal Community Forestry (CF) program and UN-REDD in developing countries: CF making pro-poor carbon sequestration policy”. Two different events were organized – one in Gumfa Mahavir Litte Community Forest and another in adjoining Non Community forest in Mudey, Dolakha. Based on the learning from this experiment, the project team members will be carrying out the experiments in other project districts.

Policy Discussion Series on ” Agriculture Policy in Nepal: The Process of Agriculture Development Strategy” by Dr Krishna P Paudel, was held at Martin Chautari Seminar Hall, Thapathali on Sunday, 25 November, 2012, from 3:00 pm onwards. [pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/121125_Policy-Dis-Series-V_Invitation.pdf” title=”121125_Policy Dis Series V_Invitation”]

ForestAction organised an interaction program at Indreni foodland on 18th January. The objective of the program was to discuss on overall issues of agriculture in relation to the agriculture policies in Nepal including Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS). Participants from ministry of agriculture, ministry of land reform and management, department of livestock, I/NGOs, media and civil societies were present during the program.

A talk programme on “Challenges of Community Forestry in the Next Three Decades” by Prof. Arun Agrawal on 11 January, 2013 at Forestry Training Centre Hall, Babarmahal, was organized by ForestAction Nepal (IFRI Collaborative Research Centre Nepal). Discussion Summary