LFP’s main organisational objective is to reduce vulnerability and improve the livelihoods of the poor and excluded rural people of Nepal. In addition, the Programme’s purpose is to enhance the assets of the rural communities by promoting more equitable, efficient, and sustainable use of forest and other natural resources. LFP is designed to achieve the following outputs:
- Forest managers responsively manage and utilis e forest resources to sustainably maximise multiple benefits;
- Poor and excluded groups actively participate in and benefit from involvement in the forestry/ NRM sector;
- Capacity within and coordination amongst institutions for forestry sector development is strengthened;
- Innovative and conflict- sensitive approaches are incorporated into forest- sector planning and policies; and
- National- level forest sector capacity and response to field reality is strengthened.
LFP’s programming began in April 2001, building upon the experience and lessons learnt from the Nepal UK Community Forestry Programme (NUKCFP). LFP differs from NUKCFP in many ways, principally in the fact that LFP was designed using approaches for sustainable livelihoods.
LFP and its implementing partners work directly with more than 4,000 User's Groups (UGs) and other natural resource management groups, covering more than 460 thousand households (i.e. 11% of total national households). On average, LFP covers 60% of the population in its programme districts. LFP operates in 15 districts of Nepal:
- Eastern Koshi Hills: Dhankuta, Terhathum, Sankhuwasabha, and Bhojpur
- Western Dhaulagiri hills: Baglung, Parbat, Myagdi
- Terai Lumbini zone: Nawalparasi, Kapilvastu, and Rupandehi
- Mid-Western Rapti zone: Rukum, Rolpa, Salyan, Pyuthan, and Dang.
LFP’s key programme-wide activities include: capacity- building of GoN institutions, forest users, managers and other service providers; targeted activities for the poor and excluded groups (e.g. income generating activities, enterprise development and small-scale infrastructure); livelihood diversification; and sustainable natural resource management (i.e. active forest management, improved public land management, soil conservation and watershed management, private forestry, and promotion of alternative energy technologies).
Livelihood & Forestry Programme
c/o DFID-Nepal
P.O. Box 106, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: (+977 1) 4410010, Fax: (+977 1) 4410469
Email: [email protected]
