From Needs to Rights: Lessons learned from the application of rights based approaches to natural resource governance in Ghana, Uganda and Nepal
As one of the world’s largest non-profit agencies working in international development, CARE International has over 50 years’ experience with poverty reduction across over 60 countries in the South. Following a fundamental review of their overall programme approach CARE made a commitment in 2002 to apply a Rights based Approach (RBA) across the organisation, and in particular with regard to its field based activities.
Reforming forest governance in Nepal: A letter to Minister for Forests and Soil Conservation
Dear Mr Bohara,
Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation, Nepal
I am writing this letter to you as an independent forest governance researcher and also as a citizen of Nepal concerned with forest, environment and democracy. While I certainly appreciate your efforts that you have been putting since you assumed the office to bring changes in the forestry sector, I clearly see gaps in your approach and hence would like to draw your attention to fundamental questions of forest governance in Nepal. I am not prescribing any blue print solutions or recipe but would like to share some broad thoughts and strategies, which require going beyond the close bureaucratic circles and political coterie. I believe we can really make a difference through mobilising all kinds of ideas, power, resources, assets and potentials to address the problems of forest governance we are facing in Nepal.
Challenges for service providers in community forestry governance: a case study of a community forest users group in Parbat, Nepal
Participatory forest management: a route to poverty reduction?
Dr. Ojha's book bestseller in Kathmandu
Hemant R. Ojha's book 'Reframing Governance : Understanding Deliberative Politics in Nepal's Terai Forestry' has made it to the Kathmandu Post's 'List of Bestselling Books in Kathmandu'. The book analyses Habermas's ideal of deliberative governance from the perspective of Bourdieu's theory of practice taking a case study of forest governance in Nepal Terai.
Democratizing Terai Forestry Governance: Emerging Innovations in the Western Terai Region of Nepal
The potential of the Terai forest resource has been well cited. With a goal of realising that enormous potential, the Government of Nepal has given special attention to Terai forests with a range of policies and different scientific management regimes. Though the government has high intensions, neither the policies nor the management efforts have been successful in producing the intended outcomes. In fact they have rarely been translated into action.