For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
ForestAction Nepal is currently undertaking a REDAA research project funded by UK International Development from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and managed by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to analyse the socio-ecological outcomes of restoration interventions in Nepal. Since three months, ForestAction Nepal’s team has been travelling to different transits in Nepal to assess different restoration sites, initiatives and their impacts. The team have complete the field research in Eastern (Pancthar, Ilam, Sunsari, Dhankuta, Bhojpur), Central (Palpa, Syangja, Tanahu, Kaski), and Western (Surkhet, Jajarkot, Dailekh) transits of Nepal.
The team had identified forest coverage changes through satellite images for the intervention. After analysing the satellite images, and assessing the forest cover changes, the team conducted socio ecological surveys, where bio-physical surveys was conducted in the forest and socio-economic surveys were taken in the forest-depended communities. Along with that, the team has also conducted capacity building trainings, leadership trainings to various communities on forest landscape restoration and management.
