Promoting transparency and accountability for right-based community forestry in Nepal

This project aims to reduce corruption in the community forestry sector by promoting innovative, transparent, participatory and accountable governance system in Nepal using five tools, they are: i) Increase understanding of people about the corruption in forestry sector, ii) Promote and institutionalize anti-corruption mechanisms through civic awareness, networking and campaigns in the sub-district level, iii) Strengthen institutional capacity of CFUGs and CBOs along with ForestAction itself to fight against corruption and enhance transparency, iv) Develop innovative institutional processes including tool kit to strengthen good governance (increase transparency, accountability and inclusion) and reduce corruption at community level, and v) Document and share the corruption-reducing lessons of the project with the wider communities and policy makers

  • Period: 01/03/2010 – 01/02/2011
  • Financial Support: The Partnership for Transparency Fund Inc.