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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Pokharel, Ridish |
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Conference:
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Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons |
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Location:
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Cheltenham, England |
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Conf. Date:
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July 14-18, 2008 |
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Date:
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2008 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1668
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Sector:
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Forestry |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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community forestry
poverty alleviation
IASC
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Abstract:
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"Nepal's community forestry is a major program in the country in forestry sector. It generates income of over $10 million annually and also invests part of it in the village for developmental works including pro-poor programs. This paper examines the investment of community forest user group funds in pro-poor programs and also who benefits from it. The paper relies on primary data of 29 community forest user groups of three different mid-hill districts of Nepal. A set of questionnaire was developed and administered to a small group of the executive committee members. The generated income through community forestry is being invested in different development works. The pro-poor programs receive one-third of the annual investment of the community forest user groups which indicates a significant increment in the investment. Although the investment in pro-poor programs has increased significantly poor households are not benefiting from it as expected. Non-poor are benefiting more from flow of loan, one major activity of pro-poor programs, suggesting that pro-poor program is not really propoor. The paper argues that providing in-kind as loan rather than cash would benefit poor more and also concludes that the targeted pro-poor activities clearly need significant refinement and monitoring."
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