Demonstration of Model Community Forests to Promote Community Forestry Development and Improve Livelihood of Local Community

This project is mainly for promotion of Community Forestry (CF) Development and Participatory Forest Management in Forest Conservation and Poverty Reduction. The main activities are the capacity building to the communities, establishment of community forests based on different thematic areas such as Agroforestry, timber and non-timber extraction for commercial purposes, community based tourism and conservation of forest for water resources. The proposed project duration is 2 years, and it will be implemented by Extension Division of Forest Department (FD) in coordination with FD Headquarter CF Unit and National Community Forestry Working Group (CFNWG).