Starting Date: July 2010
Ending Date: June 2012
Location: Dolakha, Gorkha and Chitwan
Donor(s): Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Implementation Partner(s): International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
Budget: 10,478,591 NKr
The main goal of the project is to set up a national demonstrational governance and payment system for emission reduction through sustainable forest management which benefits local communities in general and indigenous people in particular in 3 watershed areas of Nepal.
To achieve this goal, the pilot project will:
- Strengthen the capacity of civil society actors in Nepal to ensure their active
engagement in the planning and preparation of national REDD-strategies. - Facilitate the establishment a Forest Carbon Trust Fund that is sustainable, equitable and creditable in the long run.
- Contribute to the development of REDD strategies that can effectively and efficiently monitor carbon flux in community managed forests.
- Provide a high degree of replicability and applicability and act as a model- “paving the way for new practices” not only for the Hindu Kush Himalaya region (ICIMOD members countries) but globally wherever CFM is practiced.
The outcome of this pilot project will be:
- A framework for REDD strategies at national and local level developed.
- Government of Nepal ready to upscale the REDD payment mechanism demonstrated by this project in post 2012 period.
- Forest biomass enhancement occurs in the 3 watershed.
