
The handbook on community-based forest fire management serves as an awareness material and aims to strengthen the capacity of local communities to plan and organize their own fire prevention and management efforts, offering guidance on practical measures such as community-level preparedness, coordinated response, and collective action rooted in local knowledge and context. By documenting what has worked on the ground, it seeks to serve as a reference that communities and practitioners elsewhere in Nepal can adapt and apply to their own forest fire management efforts.