Community forestry in Nepal: The efforts of aid projects and their involvement with NGOs
2004
Ito, K.(Nagoya Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture)
Community Forestry (CF) that recognizes local people as forest managers has emerged in the late 1970s as an ideal approach towards both meeting basic need of rural people and sustainable resources utilization for rural development Since then, tbis approach in developing countries has been implemented mainly by aid agencies. Despite more than 25 years of experiences, most projects are still struggling to be successful. Involvement of a local community is definitely essential for successful CF in natural resources management. However, difficulties of leading the Active participation of local people, Sustainability of local people' s activities and Self-reliance have been assayed in many project reports as reasons for struggling projects. Most of the previous studies focused on "incentives" of "factors" of participation, sustainability and self-reliance. Despite the most CF have been supported or implemented by aid projects, little studies have discussed about aid projects' approach to lead participation, sustainability and self-reliance. The primary objective of this study was to identify aid projects' approaches towards these issues then to analyze how the approaches are functioning, working currently. Nepal, one of the typical examples of developing countries where CF has been supported by many aid agencies, and has been recognized as one of the succeeding countries on CF, was selected for this study.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Technology Center