ForestAction and Community Development Organisation (CDO) jointly organised a half day interaction on ‘Issues of Natural Resources Distribution and Rights in State Restructuring and Federalism’ on July 25, 2009 in Kathmandu. In the program, Constituent Assembly (CA) members from the committee on Natural Resources, Financial Rights and Public Revenue Committee, experts, civil society members and organisations working in the grassroots discussed rights and governance issues of natural resources in the New Constitution. While the local representatives put forth local agenda, FA and CDO presented on issues of NRM followed by open discussion upon the opinions and ideas of and CA members.