This guidebook describes the PAL approach to planning community forest management in a village. It describes the rationale for PAL, the process involved in it and the various factors that form the PAL strategy. It also describes in detail how to plan and implement individual steps and what tools and techniques are needed. The other guidebook, ‘Innovative Forestry: A Synthesis of Small Scale Forest Management Practices,’ describes a range of forestry practices, from which FUGs and field staff can choose the best options and adapt them to their own site-specific circumstances….

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Malla, Y.B., Branney, P. Neupane, H. and Tamrakar, P. 2001. Participatory Action and Learning: A Training Manual. IRDD.The University of Reading, U.K.and LFP, Kathmandu, Nepal (English).