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Two Decades of Community Forestry in Nepal: What Have We Learned?

Date
01 Nov 2011
Editors
Jane Carter; Bharat Pokharel; Rudriksha Rai Parajuli
Publisher
Nepal Swiss Community Forestry Project
Serial No.
0000181
Two Decades of Community Forestry in Nepal: What Have We Learned?

Development projects conceived now are rarely expected to have a life of more than five years, perhaps ten years at most. Looking back over more than twenty years of project experience in community forestry - itself grounded on an integrated development project of a similar time span - is thus a rare opportunity. The project has sought to promote social change in favor of the poor and disadvantaged, and it was recognized both by those involved in the project and by independent evaluators that this is not rapidly achieved