Project Name: Communication Strategy Project
Project Period: Jun 2011- March 2012
Financial Support: GFP/IIED
The purpose of this project is to capacitate the policy actors especially those who are in the margins of the policy making do that they can effectively participate and contribute to the forest policy processes. Read More
Project Name: Community-based forestry and livelihoods in the context of climate change adaptation
Project Period: 2010-2012
Financial Support: Asia Pacific Network
The project aims to investigate how climate change is affecting forest-dependent communities and the actual and potential adaptation measures that enable households, communities and networks to remain resilient.
Project Name: Learning From REDD: a global Comparative Analysis.
Project Period: Feb 2011-Jan 2012
Financial Support: CIFOR
The goal of this project is to provide REDD policy makers and practitioner communities with the information, analysis and tools they need to ensure effective and cost-efficient reduction of carbon emissions with equitable impacts and co-benefits. The project consists of four components i) national REDD initiations (Policy Process and strategies); ii) demonstration activities; iii) monitoring and reference level; and iv) Knowledge sharing. The specific task of the project is to provide country profile, media analysis and policy network analysis.
Project Name: Forest and Soil Restoration and Land Use Change Impacts on Carbon Pools and Fluxed in the Himalaya: Research and capacity Building in Nepal.
Project Period: March 2011- Dec 2014
Financial Support: NORAD/KU
The aim of this project is analyze the effects of forest restoration and alternative land use on forest and soil carbon pools, fluxes and sequestrations as well as potentials to support climate change adaptive strategies of rural communities in Nepal.
Project Name: Enabling forest users to exercies their rights: Rethinking regulatory barriers to communities and smallholders earning their living from timber
Project Period: Nov 2011- Feb 2012
Financial Support: RECOFTC
The aim of this project is to respond to the issue, to analyze and address key constrains in exercising rights, which will likely prove vital in facilitating poverty reduction. The program of work proposed uses rights and tenure as the entry point for generating and sharing improved knowledge on the scale of the current impacts, with particular reference to costs of missed opportunities through restricting rights, governance and market access issues
Project Name: Fostering Informed Multi-stakeholder Policy Dialogue on Cross-Community-based Forest Management Regimes of Nepal
Project Period: December 2011 to March 2012
Finacial Support: FAO
The aim of this project is to contribute to the enhancement of community rights in forest resources through catalyzing the multi-stakeholder policy dialogues and informed discussion on cross CBFM models in Nepal.
Project Name: Conflict and REDD+ study Nepal: Stage II
Project Period: Jan- May 2012
Financial Support: RECOFTC
The aim of this project is to build a strong understanding of stakeholder and conflict management within REDD+, with particular focus on local communities and its implications for conflict occurrence and management over forests and land in the country in order to improve the design and implications of REDD+.
Project Name: Promoting and Advancing Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in Nepal
Project Period: Jan-Dec 2012
Financial Support: GEF-SGP/UNDP
The main objectives of this project are 1) Document ICCAS across Nepal and in particular document and synthesize best practices; 2) To strengthen the recently forms ad hoc committee of the ICCA network in Nepal; and 3) To enhance awareness of ICCA and bring it into public conservation policy discussion and debates through evidence based policy advocacy.
Project Name: To reduce corruptin in the community forestry sector by promoting innovative, transparent, participatory, and accountable governance system in Nepal
Project Period: Jan 2012 - march 2013
Financial Support: The Partnership for Transparency Fund, Inc.
the specific objective of the project are: 1) Increase understanding of people of six participating CFUGs about the corruption in the forestry sector; 2) promote and institutionalize anti-corruption mechanisms throug civic awareness, networking and campaigns in the sub-distric level; 3) Strengthen institutional capacity of CFGUs and CBOs along with ForestAction itself to fight against corruption and enhance transparency, 4) Develop innovative institutional processes including tool it to strengthen good governance ( increase trnsparancy, accountability and inclusion) and reduce corruption at community level 5) document and share the corruption-reducing lessons of the project with the wider communities and policy maker