Organized by ForestAction in collaboration with ERI, this five-day long training was held in Dhulikhel, Kavre. The purpose of the training was to orient participants on the concepts, approaches, and processes of self-monitoring as well as to provide tools to facilitate self-monitoring systems at community level institutions. Participatory Resource Inventory in Community Forestry Training ForestAction Nepal designed and facilitated this training for the development of the skills of the participants in carrying out community forest inventory studies, through an introduction and discussion of the current issues as well as the concepts, approaches and processes of community forest inventory
A five-day long residential training on Transformative Learning was organised by ForestAction in collaboration with Environmental Resources Institute from 19-23 September 2005 at Dhulikhel, Kavre. Interactions, debates and discussions within the discourses of transformative learning (which create a space for political debate, wherein every member of society, irrespective of caste, class, gender or ethnicity, can participate and internalize the process of transformation, contributing to sustainable change) were held with the participants, helping to identify several critical areas to be strengthened, so that participants could contribute more effectively in the process of social transformation. There were 23 participants from various organizations, including I/NGOs, media, political parties, writers, university students and activists.
A National Training on ‘Adaptive and Collaborative Management (ACM) in Natural Resource Management’ was conducted in collaboration with New ERA and Kathmandu Forestry College during December 19-23, 2005. A total of 21 participants from 10 different organizations including NGOs, INGOs and Bilateral projects participated in the training. The training provided the conceptual basis of social and transformative learning and role of conscious and shared learning in community based natural resource management. Participants have developed a network of ACMers to promote the concept and practices of ACM and share experiences of each other
This eight-day training run jointly by ForestAction and ERI was held from October 10-17, 2004, aiming to improve the local level capacity for NTFP management through enhancing the participants’ knowledge and skills related to resource management, marketing and institutional arrangements for the promotion of NTFPs. The training introduced the participants to the concepts, approaches and processes of NTFP management and provided practical tools to manage NTFPs at the community level. A total of 21 participants from nine different districts participated in the training.
In September 2004, ForestAction and ERI organized the two-day Scientific Writing Workshop, intending to impart knowledge to the participating researchers and research practitioners on how one can apply the scientific method to the writing practice to make it more systematic and logical. The main objective of the workshop was to make participants familiar with scientific writing and encourage them to reflect upon it in their writing, so as to elude common error from the products and to conceptualise the writing process as a science. A total of 10 researchers and research practitioners from different NGOs participated in the workshop.
This half-day workshop was held on September 8, 2004, intending to share the findings of research on livelihood changes of people in the rural areas of Mid-Western Nepal over last thirty years. John Cameron from the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia presented the findings of his research. He also introduced the concept of deliberation as a potential theory and practice to promote equitable and just social systems. Total 25 participants, including leaders of political parties, policy makers of government organizations, university lecturers, students and NGO activists, took part in the workshop.
A one-day seminar, conducted jointly by ForestAction and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on the management of common property resources and equity was organized and held with the objective of documenting case studies incorporating evidences, lessons and insights to facilitate the mainstreaming of equity and poverty concerns in the management of common property resources, especially those in community forestry and farmer management irrigation systems, rangeland management and watershed management. Thirteen papers were presented on different aspects of common property resources, including seven case studies. The proceedings of the seminar have also been published in February 2004.
Organized by ForestAction in collaboration with ERI, this five-day long training was held in Dhulikhel, Kavre. The purpose of the training was to orient participants on the concepts, approaches, and processes of self-monitoring as well as to provide tools to facilitate self-monitoring systems at community level institutions. Participatory Resource Inventory in Community Forestry Training ForestAction Nepal designed and facilitated this training for the development of the skills of the participants in carrying out community forest inventory studies, through an introduction and discussion of the current issues as well as the concepts, approaches and processes of community forest inventory
The training was held for 8 days in December 2002. This training was designed to orient the participants, both foresters and non-foresters, on the concepts, approaches and processes of NTFP management, providing the participants with practical tools to manage NTFPs at the community level. Forest Rights and Livelihoods Training The Forest Rights and Livelihoods Training was launched in order to raise the awareness of participants on multiple aspects of community forest management policies. This training oriented the participants on the concepts, approaches and processes of community forestry so as to increase their ability to claim for rights and responsibilities by forest users.
In response to a need perceived by the Center for Agro-Ecology and Development (CAED) in its experiences with forest user groups, NGOs and CBOs, CAED and ForestAction jointly developed this workshop for the creation of a space in which it would be possible to discuss the issues surrounding community forest inventory and share experiences with the intention of promoting a critical understanding of the issue among key stakeholders.
A three-day conference on management of common property resources and equity has been planned to conduct in collaboration with different organizations. The main objective of the conference was to document case studies incorporating evidences, lessons and insights to facilitate mainstreaming of equity and poverty concerns in the management of CPR, namely community forestry and farmer managed irrigation systems.
This workshop was supported and developed with the collaborative efforts of ForestAction, Nepal’s Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC), and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). With over 100 participants from diverse backgrounds, including government, NGOs, Forest User Groups, development projects and international organizations, the workshop was host to a deliberation on five interrelated themes of Community Forestry: Governance, Adaptive Management, Gender and Equity, Livelihoods, and Forest Sustainability. Held in both plenary and small-scale workshop settings, participants identified future strategic directions to strengthen Community Forestry in Nepal, focusing on enhancing the equity impact of the programme.