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

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Two decades of community forestry in Nepal: What have we learned? 5. SOCIAL INCLUSION: CASTE AND GENDER “NSCFP has contributed remarkably in mainstreaming the agenda of gender and social inclusion throughout the community forestry sub-sector.” Bishnu Lal Ghimire, DFO, Okhaldhunga “NSCFP scholarships have played crucial role in women literacy in the district and the way it has targeted the disadvantaged people.” Usha Dahal, NSCFP “Although it is a pro-poor project, NSCFP still has to improve a lot in its perspective for women.” Gita Bohara, HIMAWANTI Various forms and dimensions of social exclusion exist in Nepal, rooted in discrimination on the basis of caste, economic status, ethnicity, gender, age, disability and vulnerability (for example the traffi cking of girls, or infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and TB) as well as other aspects. As NSCFP has been particularly active in fi ghting discrimination on the basis of caste and gender, this section focuses on these aspects. Although the project was always active in promoting the role of women as well as men in forest management, systematic attempts to address gender began in 1995. It was at this point that the project formally recognised that improving the rights and position of women did not mean focusing purely on women, but on working with men and women together on gender relations – and doing so from a caste perspective (Bhatia, 1995). Gender awareness and social equity became a cross-cutting theme for all activities, at all levels – in working with community forest users (see box), with partners (service providers and government), and with regard to project staff; further details may be found in Nightingale (2007). Community forestry is devoted to reduce the work load of women in Nepal 29
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