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Livelihoods and Forestry Programmme

• Towards pro-poor institutions: exclusive rights to the poor groups in community forest management

  In spite of the widely accepted success of Community Forestry in reviving degraded land, it is still seen as being unable to provide tangible benefits to the poor.

  • 01/01/2009

  • Livelihoods and Forestry Programmme
  • • Forests
    • Forest Policy
    • Community Forest Management (CFM)
    • Forest Products
    • Rural Development
    • Community Groups
    • Nepal

• Improving community-level governance: adaptive learning and action in community forest user groups in Nepal

  Drawing on the experience of Livelihoods and Forestry Programme in Nepal, this paper makes the case for community-generated planning, selfmonitoring and evaluation for adaptive learning and good governance in community forest user groups (CFUGs) in Nepal. These processes, conceptualised as Adaptive Learning and Action

  • 01/01/2009

  • Livelihoods and Forestry Programmme
  • • Forest Education
    • Community Forest Management (CFM)
    • Governance
    • Community Groups
    • Nepal