Project period: 2008 - 2010
Financial support: European Commission

This project is designed to contribute in improving socio-economic conditions of conflict affected and vulnerable people. The project aims to develop self-esteem and trust among excluded and vulnerable communities, NGOs and Community Based Organizations (CBOs); and to open up new opportunities towards promoting peace, social integration, capacity building, rehabilitation, reconstruction, reintegration, inclusion, and revitalization of the health services and livelihoods improvement. This project is implemented by a consortium of one INGO, two national NGOs and 11 district based NGOs. The 11 action districts of this project include Morang, Dhankuta, Panchtahar and Khotang from Eastern Development Region; Kavre and Chitwan from Central Development Region; Nawalparasi, Arghkhanchi and Kapilvastu from Western Development Region; Kalikot from Mid-Western Development Region; and Achham from Far-Western Development Region. The final beneficiaries of this project are the larger communities of 11 project districts covering about 18 percent of Nepal's population.

Project period: 2008 - 2011
Financial support: Research Into Use (RIU) Program of DFID

The initiative enhances livelihoods opportunites to the poor by bringing earlier findings of research funded by DFID and IDRC. A coalition of five different organisations led by ForestAction has been formed to promote research innovations for active, equitable and effectice management of natural resources within the framework of communitty forestry in Nepal. The other coalition partners include Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN), Nepal Herbs and Herbal Products Association (NEHHPA), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ), and Department of Sociology/Anthropology (DoSA) of Tribhuvan University. The initiative seeks to strengthen innovation processes in forest and livelihoods by strengthening collaborative linkages among the diverse functions of coalition partners - action and policy oriented research (ForestAction), advocacy of innovations (FECOFUN), research and academic linkages (DoSA), media advocacy (NEFEJ), and forest products enterprise development (NEHHPA).

Project period: 2008 - 2009
Financial support: Rights Resource Initiatives

In the context of state restructuring and new constitution building, ForestAction and FECOFUN have agreed to facilitate a national dialogue on the role of local communities in the management of natural resources. ForestAction is carrying out a strategic analysis of the community rights over natural resources and FECOFUN is leading the interaction and lobbying in favor of community right. A strategic policy document explaining the situation of security of community rights on forest, land and water resource management will be the major output of the project which also contains policy recommendations to ensure security of rights, sustainability and livelihoods of local communities.

Project period: January - December 2009
Financial support: Canadian Cooperation Office

The idea of the project is to enhance debate and discussion among knowledge networks, discourse coalition, epistemic communities and the opinion makers around the discourse of natural resource management and federalism in Nepal. The goal of this project is to generate new insights and reframe the current discourse of federal governance so as to contribute to the negotiation and delineation of federal states in Nepal that reflects equity in terms of natural assests distribution. It aims to generate and promote options, ideas, insights and evidences towards a more balanced, viable, equitable and feasible federal structure in Nepal.