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Item An Assessment of Institutional Strengthening Process of Community Forest User Group for Sustainable Forest Management” “A Case Study of Shree Jan Jyoti Community Forest User Group" of Sarlahi District(Department of Rural Development, 2011) Dhungel, PunamThe Thesis entitled "Institutional Strengthening Process of Community Forest User Group for Sustainable Forest Management" is a study done in Shree Jana Jyoti Community Forest User Group (CFUG) in Sarlahi District. The general objective of the study was to assess the institutional strengthening of CFUG for sustainable Community Forest (CF) management. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the present structural and functional arrangement of CFUG and to sketch the level of participation in both Community Forest User Committee (CFUC) and CFUG with respect to caste, sex and economic status and to find out the fund mobilization process. Data collection was primarily done by visiting the field and making the individual contact with the CFUG and CFUC members from the different strata. Among the 354 Households 118 Households (one-third of total) respondents were selected using simple random technique considering that respondents are from all ethnic group. The selected sample was questioned about the prospects, situation people involvement and their interest on community forest conservation. Likewise, different tools of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) such as Semi-Structured Interview (SSI), Household Survey, Focus Group Discussions and Direct Observation were applied during the study. The finding of the study shows that among 354 households of Shree Jana Jyoti CFUG 239 HHs (67%) were from Brahmin/Chhetri representing the majority while 7 HHs(2%) are from dalit community indicating the least. The economic condition of people of the study area is quite good as major portion of the households fall in middle class family. Because of sound economic condition many households can afford for the education of their children,hence the literacy rate in this area is found to be good i.e 72.10%. The representation of Dalit community is not satisfactory (only one) in the old users committee. Despite the significant number of women seen in the old user's committee, their role in decision making is not significant. However, the people representation from remaining groups is satisfactory. In the newly formed CFUC, the participation of dalit has been maintained at 7% while the numbers of women stand 57%. Likewise, women's role was extremely limited to the physical work e.g. nursery construction, forest product harvesting and collection, plantation, fencing but they are not involved in the decision making e.g. nursery site selection, how much and what to harvest, where and what to plant etc. Mobilization of fund for different purposes and selection of forest management activities were limited to the men. Hence it is recommended to apply the participatory approach in decision making irrespective of sex, caste and ethnicityItem Contribution of Community Forestry in Rural Development ("A Case Study of Community Forestry of Nawalaparasi District")(Department of Rural Development, 2011-01) Paudyal, Udaya BahadurMajor chunks of National forest in Nepal are being increasingly handed over as community forest to fulfill the basic needs of forest products along with income and employment to the rural people. With changing context, community forest has broadened itself as important activity for rural Development. The need of identifying rural development through community forestry with emphasizing the employment opportunity, researcher has chosen this study topic Contribution of community forestry in rural development" in Nawalparasi district. Five CFUGs were purposively selected for this study as study site. Focus group discussion, face-to face intreierview and study of relevant secondary literature were the basic tools to gather the information. Both qualitative as well as quantitative data were used to draw the conclusion. Quantitative data were analyzed with the help of computer, Excel 1998. Majority (83 %) of respondents had agricultural occupation. Land holdings has positive correlation with well-being status in agrarian society, thus it was tried to find out the landholdings of the respondent. The majority of the respondents had possessed medium level landholdings (0.33 to 1.6 ha) size. Livestock rearing practices was changing towards stall-feeding system from conventional open grazing system after the handover the forest patches as community forestry. It has created positive impact on regeneration in community forest. Alternative energy was found at initial stage in the study area. Only 19 % respondents have installed Bio-gas plant for cooking purpose. This figure indicates that, there is great potentiality of bio-gas installation. Some forest management activities were practiced in CFUGs but they were still passively managed with strict protection. The resources were underutilized. Neither, the forest operational plan was positive towards active forest management nor the users were aware about the importance of active forest management for sustainable benefit. Recently, some NTFP promotion activities were introduced in 3 selected CFs, but the users were facing the problem of selling their products due to weak marketing linkage. More than 50 percent respondents attain meeting rarely and 56 % respondents responded that the forest products were distributed as needed. It means that the distribution system was according to decision of executive members. This study reveals that community forestry has remarkable contribution in livelihood assets generation but the assets were not equitably accessible to the poor people. The disparity of poor in human, financial, and social assets were identified. The recommendations for user group level are equitable benefit sharing system should be adopted during the distribution of forest products and group fund, and It is very important to include poor, women and other disadvantaged members in the decision making position of CFUGs. Similarly at the district level; technical support for active forest management needs to be provided through DFO and/or other partner organizations. NTFP cultivation should be promoted with sufficient technical knowledge and well-established marketing mechanism should be improved in district level. Identification and promotion of viable forest based enterprises needs to be established in a way that provide sustainable benefits to the poor usersItem Inclusion of Dalits in Community Forest (A Sociological Study of Aahale Mashwara Community Forest, Putalibazar11, Syangja)(Central Department of Sociology, 2012-03) Shrestha, MedikaNepal's rural setting is a complex structure of social system consisting of hierarchical social structure that includes different economic and social classes, oppressive caste system and gender discrimination, which is developed from feudal, bureaucratic and caste and gender biased interests. The difference between rich and poor people, upper and lower caste, men and women create situation for social conflicts and discrimination to have access and control over the resources. The main objective of this study is to describe the socio-economic condition of users in the area, find the status of inclusion of poor, women and Dalits in participation of decision-making forums, membership in CF and access to information and opportunities, explore the condition of inclusion of poor, women and Dalits in benefit sharing and fund mobilization mechanism among CFUG members, and assess the existing situation of inclusion of poor, women and Dalits in decision making. Despite a variety of government interventions, the ethnic minorities continue to be marginalized. There is hardly any awareness, understanding and planning activities by the government and extension and research agencies in terms of social and gender discrimination (Baral, 1993: Pp 34-35).Item People’s Participation in Community Forest Management (A Case Study of Jana Jagaran Forest User Group in Parasan Vdc of Kanchanpur District)(Department of Rural Development, 2011-10) Ghimire, Doj RajThis research entitled “People’s Participation in Community Forest Management; A Case Study of Jana Jagaran Forest User Group in Parasan VDC of Kanchanpur District” is conducted in Parasan VDC of Kanchanpur district. It is a case study conducted on a small area but this research contributes valuable information on issues of participation equity and management in community forestry development at district and national level. The overall objectives of the study is also to access the “people’s participation in community forest management”. However, the specific objective are to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of the respondent, to analyze the existing community forest management system in the study area, to know how the people are involved in CFM system and lastly to find out the problem related to the well functioning of FUG in the Parasan VDC. The study is exploratory as well as descriptive in nature. It is based on a sample of 40 households as selected by using simple random sampling techniques. The data were obtained through interview schedule, observation, focus group discussion and check-list. Both primary and secondary data are used for the research. Data has shown that male population is slightly dominant by female as well as the age 16-59 is high in the study area. The economically active population is 50.15 %. In the case of education 22% of the respondents were illiterate. After the community forest program was launched, the forest of Parasan VDC was handed to local people by the government. The overall forest management system in JJFUG is described under four categories: Operation management, Protection management, Utilization management, Promotion and development management. After the people’s participation in JJFUG, people of the study area were conscious about the activities related to CF. The data shows that 35% of the female respondents were actively participated in the meeting. But on the other hand 8% of the women were only participated in decision making process; this shows that the female percentage is lower than male in decision making process. The finding of the study reveals that 78% of the total respondents are at least literate. The greater percentage of the population is engaged in agriculture. But in the case of conflict regarding management of forest, there still exist on conflict over access, conflict due to resource availability and conflict in sharing benefit. The FUG has been playing role for the development of local human resource and also enhance the rural livelihood. It has also empowered people towards team building, group dynamism as well as self- motivation in community development. The direct and indirect benefits from the community forestry have played the greater role in the social life of the people in the study area. Based on the above facts it can be concluded that the FUG has emerged as a viable institution for rural community development using local resources. It has been found that the FUG has maximum benefits to the underprivileged group of the community from such community development activitiesItem Women’s Participation in Community Forestry Management System in Nepal: A Case Study of Bhagwati Mahila Community Forestry User Group at Ghorahi Municipality, 6 Mashina in Dang District(Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, 2009) Rijal, LunaNot Available