Recent Publications
Role of Bureaucracy and Good Governance on Community Forestry
Sunam, R., Banjade, M.R., Paudel, N.S. and Khatri, D.B. 2011. Role of Bureaucracy and Good Governance on Community Forestry. Booklet. ForestAction, Nepal.
Micro-enterprise based on forest product: Existing policy, obstacles and alternatives
Micro-enterprise based on forest product: Existing policy, obstacles and alternatives
Forest Act Amendment
Paudel, N.S., Khatri, D.B., Ojha, H., Luintel, H.S. and Banjade, M.R. 2012. Forest Act Amendment Proposal: Analysis and Suggestion. Policy Note Series 2012:1. ForestAction Nepal.
Contested law: Slow Respense to Demands for Reformulating Protected Area Legal Frame Work in Nepal.
Scholarly work on protected area (PA) usually favours analysis of conservation policies – development, implementation, impacts etc. The critical examination of PA legal framework is relatively scant in literature. That is equally so in Nepal where there is a plethora of scientific work on policy analysis, particularly the participatory approaches to PA management. Different levels of legal and regulatory instruments are much influential in shaping the institutional behaviour and ...
How does technobureaucracy impede livelihood innovations in Community Forestry?
Over the past three decades, Nepal’s community forestry program has marked a tremendous shift from state-centric, top down model to community-based participatory approach to forest governance. Supported by adaptive decentralized and devolved policy processes, this program is widely recognized as an innovative approach to forest management and governance (Koirala et al. 2008).