Two decades of community forestry in Nepal: What have we learned?

Two decades of community forestry in Nepal: What have we learned?
failures, and tailor their activities accordingly. Whilst planning and monitoring has
always broadly followed a logical framework, the system has become tighter over
the years, with a system of outcome monitoring (used by all SDC projects in Nepal)
having been practised since 2008 (see SDC, 2008).
Range post and CFUGs are working together to promote community forestry
NSCFP has evolved from an expatriate-managed project that channelled most
of its funding through the Department of Forests, to a project that is managed by
national staff and is channelling funding through a variety of stakeholders – including
the ultimate benefi ciaries. The transfer of funds directly to CFUG level only
became possible recently, once CFUGs had suffi cient institutional capacity. Thus
mechanisms by which this can be optimised in the current political context – and in
the future - are in need of further testing in more CFUGs. There are now more than
1000 CFUGs that have capacity to manage not only forests but also fund and human
resources by themselves. Many have established enterprises and generated
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