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NUKCFP began in 1993 and works in 7 districts: 3 in the Dhaulagiri Region in the West and 4 in the Koshi Hills in the East. NUKCFP has supported capacity building within organisations such as the Forestry Department, NGOs, CBOs and, increasingly, within informal networks of FUGs to enable effective implementation of the legislation. FUGs within the NUKCFP supported districts currently manage between 40% and 70% of these districts forests –excluding those in protected areas.
As a capacity building project, NUKCFP has focused on issues related to power relations, chiefly at the local level, by creating a more empowering environment in which local people can manage their own resources to increase their livelihood strategies.
Objectives:
Overall goal: Improved living conditions of people in seven districts in Nepal.
Overall purpose: Increased effectiveness of FUGs in managing community forestry areas on an equitable and sustainable basis.
Secondary objectives:
- Hill communities meet their needs for tree products on a sustained yield basis.
- Popular participation in decision making and the sharing of benefits (with special reference to full involvement of poor and women).
- To enhance the capacity of the Department of Forests (DOF) to undertake community forestry.
- To enhance the capacity of communities (user groups) in seven districts to manage selected areas of forest on an equitable and sustainable basis.
- To support HMGN in the further development and implementation of its national community forestry policy.
- To reduce forest degradation in seven districts in Eastern and Western Regions of Nepal.
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Contact Address:
Nepal-UK Community Forestry Project
Coordination Office
c/o DFID
P.O. Box 106
Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: 411022/410010
Fax: 410469
email: [email protected]