The project aims to investigate how climate change is affecting forest-dependent communities and the actual and potential adaptation measures that enable households, communities and networks to remain resilient.
Archives: Programs
To reduce corruptin in the community forestry sector by promoting innovative, transparent, participatory, and accountable governance system in Nepal
the specific objective of the project are: 1) Increase understanding of people of six participating CFUGs about the corruption in the forestry sector; 2) promote and institutionalize anti-corruption mechanisms throug civic awareness, networking and campaigns in the sub-distric level; 3) Strengthen institutional capacity of CFGUs and CBOs along with ForestAction itself to fight against corruption and enhance transparency, 4) Develop innovative institutional processes including tool it to strengthen good governance ( increase trnsparancy, accountability and inclusion) and reduce corruption at community level 5) document and share the corruption-reducing lessons of the project with the wider communities and policy maker.
Communication Strategy Project
The purpose of this project is to capacitate the policy actors especially those who are in the margins of the policy making do that they can effectively participate and contribute to the forest policy processes.
Enabling forest users to exercies their rights: Rethinking regulatory barriers to communities and smallholders earning their living from timber
The aim of this project is to respond to the issue, to analyze and address key constrains in exercising rights, which will likely prove vital in facilitating poverty reduction. The program of work proposed uses rights and tenure as the entry point for generating and sharing improved knowledge on the scale of the current impacts, with particular reference to costs of missed opportunities through restricting rights, governance and market access issues
Fostering Informed Multi-stakeholder Policy Dialogue on Cross-Community-based Forest Management Regimes of Nepal
The aim of this project is to contribute to the enhancement of community rights in forest resources through catalyzing the multi-stakeholder policy dialogues and informed discussion on cross CBFM models in Nepal.
Conflict and REDD+ study Nepal: Stage II
The aim of this project is to build a strong understanding of stakeholder and conflict management within REDD+, with particular focus on local communities and its implications for conflict occurrence and management over forests and land in the country in order to improve the design and implications of REDD+
Institutional mapping of organizations involved in enchncing livelihoods and food security from Agroforestry and Community forestry systems in the middle hills of Nepal
Drivers of Change and Dynamics of Changing Resource Use patterns and Farming Systems in the middle Hills
World Wide Views on Biodiversity
The project aims to aware people on the issues of biodiversity and gather at least 100 citizens on September 15 to understand their personal views regarding its significance and ways of conserving them. Nepal is one of the 25 countries where this project is being implemented.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Documenting Lessons from RRI Approaches to Support Tenure Reform Process in Nepal, under the Rights and resources Initiatives (RRI)
Promoting and Advancing Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in Nepal
The main objectives of this project are 1) Document ICCAS across Nepal and in particular document and synthesize best practices; 2) To strengthen the recently forms ad hoc committee of the ICCA network in Nepal; and 3) To enhance awareness of ICCA and bring it into public conservation policy discussion and debates through evidence based policy advocacy.
Reducing poverty through innovation systems in forestry/scaling out natural resource outputs in Asia
The project aims at promoting research innovations for active, equitable and effective management of natural resources within the framework of community forestry in Nepal. The initiative provides a unique opportunity to diverse groups, actors to work together in repacking, updating, disseminating, adapting and institutionalizing both products and process of innovations.