European Aid for Poverty Reduction in Nepal
Hans Gsänger and Timo Voipio
This study is part of a larger programme of research focusing on the use of aid for poverty reduction.
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Managing local conflicts over water resources: A case study from Nepal & Kumpulan Informasi Teknis: A process and tool to obtain, build on and disseminate local technical knowledge
Bishnu Raj Upreti, Thomas Dierolf, Eberhard Krain, Ellen Kramer, M.S. Tarmudji and Amir NasutionBoth of these papers highlight the role of local institutions and knowledge in the development process.
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Towards participatory economic analysis by forest user groups in Nepal
Richards M., Kanel K., Maharjan M. & Davies J.This study focuses on the extent to which it is possible for forest users themselves to make financial calculations of the benefits and costs of community forestry (CF). An ideal opportunity to do this was presented in Nepal where the Nepal UK Community Forestry Project (NUKCFP) felt that greater transparency in terms of the returns to different stakeholder groups in the Forest User Groups (FUGs) might assist the process of achieving more equity within the FUGs.
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The adoption and associated impact of technologies in the western hills of Nepal
Christopher Floyd and colleaguesThis paper summarises the results of an adoption study conducted in 1994/95 in the western hills of Nepal, to determine the level and extent of adoption of 15 selected field crop, horticulture, livestock and forestry technologies.
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Matching livelihood needs to tree selection in high potential farming systems: Lessons from participatory research in Nepal and India
M Warner, PG Bezkorowajnyj, RB Rana and JR WitcombeA participatory crop improvement project in Gujarat, India and the Terai, Nepal, funded by the Department for International Development and co-ordinated by the Centre for Arid Zone Studies, University of Wales, is improving crop production and tree use in areas where people have low incomes, but where the production potential is high.
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'Internalising the Externalities' of Tropical Forestry: A Review of Innovative Financing and Incentive Mechanisms
Michael RichardsThis paper assesses the potential limitations of a range of ‘innovative’ financial incentive mechanisms. It finds that efforts to increase the incentives for sustainable forestry must be accompanied by effective regulation or control, whether at the national or international level, and should also be complemented by policy measures to make forest-degrading activities less profitable.
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Participatory Curriculum Development: a Workshop to Update the Forest Guards Course in Nepal
Philip N DeardenThe development of community forestry initiatives in Nepal necessitated a new role for Forest Guards. This paper gave a detailed account of the FINNIDA-funded collaborative process used to update the curriculum for forest guard training. A workshop of 14 forestry staff of all ranks worked through a framework of pragmatic questions, loosely based on Skilbeck's situational analysis model, to decide in turn the context, purpose, content, teaching methods, specific course objectives, means of implementing and means of evaluating Forest Guard training. The good sense of the resultant curriculum - focused on what Forest Guards actually did - meant that it was able to be adopted by trainers immediately.
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La création d’un programme d’études participatif : un atelier destiné à actualiser le cours de formation des gardes forestiers au Népal
Philip N DeardenLe développement d'initiatives de foresterie communautaire au Népal nécessitait de confier un nouveau rôle aux gardes forestiers. Ce document faisait un compte rendu détaillé du processus de collaboration financé par FINNIDA pour mettre à jour le cours de formation à l'intention des gardes forestiers. Un atelier de 14 employés de foresterie de tous rangs a travaillé à l'intérieur d'un cadre de questions pragmatiques, sommairement basé sur un modèle d'analyse de situations de Skilbeck, en vue de décider ensuite des contexte, but, contenu, méthodes d'enseignement, objectifs spécifiques du cours, moyens de réalisation et moyens d'évaluation de la formation de garde forestier. Le bien-fondé du programme d'enseignement qui en a résulté, axé sur ce que font effectivement les gardes forestiers, signifiait que ce cours pouvait être aussitôt adopté par les instructeurs.
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El diseño participativo de currículos: un taller para actualizar la docencia de los guardamontes en Nepal
Philip N DeardenEl desarrollo de iniciativas de foresteria comunitaria en Nepal requería un nuevo papel para los guardas forestales. Este artículo ofreció un informe detallado del proceso de colaboración, financiado por FINNIDA, que se empleó con el fin de actualizar el currículo para la formación de los guardas forestales. El taller, para 14 trabajadores forestales de todos los rangos, utilizó un marco de preguntas pragmáticas, basadas sin excesivo rigor en el modelo de análisis situacional de Skilbeck, para decidir, por orden, el contexto, propósito, contenido, métodos de enseñanza, objetivos específicos del curso, medios de implementación y medios de evaluación de la formación de los guardas forestales. El buen sentido del currículo preparado - que se centraba en lo que los guardas forestales realmente hacían - condujo a que se le pudiera adoptar de inmediato.
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The Flow and Distribution of Costs and Benefits in the Chuliban Community Forest, Dhankuta
M R MaharjanThis paper presented a careful appraisal of the local costs and benefits of one community forest in Nepal. Surprisingly, a measure of the forest's overall discount rate suggested that investing in the forest was less profitable than keeping money in a savings account at a local bank - though the author provided several caveats to this calculation. Of more concern was the inequity of distribution of the costs and benefits among members of the community. In particular, poor users, who were most dependent on the forest, did not gain enough direct benefits to compensate for the associated opportunity costs. To counteract the current trend of decreasing participation, the forest user group would first have to resolve problems of distribution and then improve productivity and profitability of the forest.