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Document Author(s): Satyal Pravat

This report is another good overview of the forestry sector in Nepal and its strengths and weaknesses. It discusses the political, social, and economic framework of Nepal's forestry sector as well as civil society, NGO, and international financial assistance involvement in the sector. It highlights Nepals forest policy and its evolution over the past 30 yrs into a system that promots CBNRM. It also discusses the forestry sector by region and some of the strengths and weaknesses of the CBNRM programs in each region from the highly successful results in the Mid-Hills region to the dissapointing resutls in the Terai forests. Again, it breaks down the social, institutional, and folicy framwork that compose Nepal's forestry sector illustrating the incorporation of many NWP inputs and their important impact on the success of CBNRM in Nepal.

Reviewer: Kelly Gibbons

Review Date: 2013-01-11

Journal: Forests Monitor

Publisher: Cambridge

Document type(s):

• Journal article
• Country-based case study

Star rating: ★★★

Regions:

• Asia

Country: Nepal

Natural resource(s):

• NTFPs
• Biodiversity
• Forest
• Timber

Ecosystem service(s):

• Biodiversity
• Forest Carbon

NWP Principles - Nature

• Fostered innovation, social learning, and adaptive management - [Relevant]
• Promoted local land use planning and appropriate resource tenure systems - [Critical]
• Built capacity and invested in human resources - [Relevant]
• Improved information and knowledge management systems - [Relevant]
• Promoted cost effective technical advisory and intermediary services - [Relevant]

NWP Principles - Wealth

• Promoted or developed economic strategies for natural resource management - [Relevant]
• Assured that resource managers have access to NRM means and benefits - [Relevant]
• Strengthened markets and NRM market incentives - [Relevant]
• Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs - [Relevant]
• Invested in local organizations - [Relevant]
• Created a framework for better NRM choices - [Relevant]

NWP Principles - Power

• Continuous and inclusive consultations - [Relevant]n
• Procedural rights for all people, especially vulnerable or marginalized groups - [Relevant]
• Natural resource authority and functions distribution - [Relevant]
• Local stakeholder input into public decisions and policy - [Relevant]

Tools used

• Devolution to communities
• Participatory processes for social change
• Land use planning
• Land tenure securitization
• Devolution to local governments
• Tree tenure rights
• Information/knowledge management technology
• Participatory Planning

Constraints

• Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
• Governance/empowerment - [Yes]
• Economic/income generation - [Yes]

Solutions

• Economic/income generation - [Yes]
• Governance/empowerment - [Yes]

Impacts

• Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
• Governance/empowerment - [Yes]
• Economic/income generation - [Yes]

Additional Discussion Topics

• Lessons learned (Cautionary Tale)
• Lessons learned (Success Story)
• Governance - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
• Economic - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
• Resources - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]