For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Dr Birendra Kumar Karna, Executive Coordinator at ForestAction Nepal, participated in the planning meeting between ForestAction Nepal and University of Colorado at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA from February 18-22, 2019. The aim of the meeting was to discuss options for the development of field research protocols and data collection instruments to be employed in new research project on local institutions for the governance of forest commons often suffer from problems of inequality, exclusion, and stratification that mirror existing village inequalities by ethnicity, caste, or gender. The knowledge generated was aimed at contributing to current policy discourses in the fields of forestry and investment in Nepal. His participation in this planning meeting is expected to facilitate further collaboration in the field of research between ForestAction Nepal and University of Colorado.