For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Monitoring for Good Forest Governance: Creating Effective Micro-Mactro Linkages in Community Forestry in Nepal.
This note outlines some insights on improving monitoring-related processes in the different layers of forest governance in Nepal, with a focus on effectively linking micro (local) and macro (national) levels of decision-making in community forestry. The lessons and ideas outlined in this brief are relevant to actors in the forestry sector who engage in or support policy development or implementation with an interest in good forest governance in community forestry in Nepal. These lessons are drawn from the Adaptive and Collaborative Management Research Project of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Nepal Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MOFSC), which was implemented in partnership with ForestAction. Forest governance is now recognized as the critical factor for effective resource management, and enhancing livelihood outcomes. The term ‘governance’ basically refers to how people, groups and institutions relate to each other in terms of sharing power and responsibility. Specifically, many people refer to governance as including several key factors such as transparency of organizational procedures, democratic decision making systems, and accountability. We suggest that governance needs to have a clear ‘learning’ element to it, i.e. where stakeholders do not only participate in joint processes, but jointly learn together to improve various facets of governance from their experiences…..
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