Supporting community forestry through good governance: Role of Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal

The report starts off by introducing community forestry, which, since latter part of 1980s, has moved away from a blueprint to a process oriented approach inspired by an idea of achieving consensus for allocating resource to the indigenous use right holders and for ensuring an equitable system. By following this very general spirit, over a million hectares of forest patches scattered in different parts of the country have now been handed over to some 13,000 local user groups. In the future, the state intends to hand over all forests, particularly in the hills, to the extent that people are..