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Title: 

Women's participation on community forestry and its effectiveness

Authors: 

Upendra Adhikari
Rishikesh Pandey

This article is written on the basis of dissertation submitted to Pokhara University for the degree of Masters in Population, Gender and Development. This article asks why vommunity forest resources are more complex and entangled in a society where there is a prime role of women on the protection and utilization. The study found that, women had given chance for decision making role on document but not on the reality for making self decision. Some elite men are responsible for dominating women on choosing executive committee member, decision making in meetings and assemblies. As well as poor and dalit people have still dominated by Brahmin/chhetris, because key positions are lead by elite household till now. Women are trying to manage spare time for the well management of forest as well as betterment of their family and for their own personality development. Managing time from household works women are utilizing their leisure time for not only seasonal and off seasonal vegetable framing, taking care of children but in social and self-development works.

Conflicts among user held on hierarchical and patron-client social relation, incompatibility of formal laws, conflicts of interest, protection and belief, with bad governance of community forest. Majority of user are in materialistic participation, and low in realization of problem, drafting operation plan and constitution, which is self motivation, as well as monitoring and evaluation is also in low position.

 

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