Community Forestry Management: Mechanisms behind a success story in Nepal
The brief discusses research and policy implications in the broader framework of the decentralization of natural resource management
Abstract
Over the past 25 years, the government of Nepal implemented one of the most ambitious and comprehensive programs of decentralization of forest management in the world. This major institutional change resulted in the transfer of the management of almost 50% of Nepal forests to 18 000 Community Forest User Groups (CFUG). The success of the program has been widely advertised and received a lot of international attention, for instance by UNEP (Sukhdev and Nuttall, 2010). Despite this overall consensus, evidence on large programs of decentralized management of forest is more mixed in economics literature. The policy brief discusses the research and several policy implications in the broader framework of the decentralization of natural resource management.
This output is part of the Economic Development and Institutions (EDI) programme
Citation
François Libois, Jean-Marie Baland, Nicolas Delbart, Subhrendu Pattanayak (2021) Community Forestry Management: Mechanisms behind a success story in Nepal. Economic Development and Institutions Policy Brief. Oxford Policy Management
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Community Forestry Management: Mechanisms behind a success story in Nepal