Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in REDD+

Poudyal, Bishnu Hari; Maraseni, Tek; Cockfield, Geoff; Bhattarai, Bhola

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2020.01.022

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“…Recently, CFUGs have been progressively engaged in contributing to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction programs by providing ecological goods and services and socio-economic benefits to the communities ( P. Gentle & Thwaites, 2017 ; D. Paudel, Khatri, & Paudel, 2010 ). However, there are concerns that CFUGs are not always able to achieve their progressive mandates particularly in equitable decision-making and benefit sharing, and some argue that CFUGs may not provide a viable ‘safety net’ for poor people ( P. Gentle & Thwaites, 2017 ; Ojha, 2014 ; Poudyal, Maraseni, & Cockfield, 2020 ).…”

Section: Community Forestry Institutional Capacity For Disaster Respomentioning

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“…As of May 2020, there are 22,266 CFUGs in Nepal managing 2.24 m ha (35% of total) of country's forest resources and directly benefiting 2.91 m households (about 33% of total) population of the country ( Pathak, 2020 ). These groups are expanding their capacity to deal with other environmental development and humanitarian domains with the focus on equity, justice, participation and sustainability ( P. Gentle & Thwaites, 2017 ; Poudyal et al, 2020 ; Rana, Thwaites, & Luck, 2017 ). They have developed local to national networks and sophisticated decision making and implementing mechanisms that mobilizes both the indigenous knowledge systems and contemporary practices of the state and development institutions ( Fig.…”

Section: Community Forestry Institutional Capacity For Disaster Respomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Gentle

Maraseni

Paudel

et al. 2020

Research in Globalization

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Natural disasters and pandemics are evolving as major global threats that are posing an enormous challenge to socio-economic and environmental wellbeing. Using a real time analysis of the impressive role played by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) in Nepal in responding to the 2015 earthquakes (Earthquake-15) and COVID-19, this paper explores the scopes, capacities, institutional strengths and attributes required for community-based institutions such as CFUGs to become effective in managing and responding natural or other disasters. Our findings suggest that being an autonomous and well-recognized community based institution with trusted social capital (trust, connectedness, norms and network) for collective action together with its scope and mandate to democratically manage and mobilize its physical, financial, natural and human assets, CFUGs have become the most effective institution to provide immediate support to disaster affected communities. While most of other agencies including non-governmental organizations spend a lot of time exploring avenues for immediate response to the disasters, CFUGs have immediate access and infrastructure to support millions of people in rural areas. We argue that this contribution needs to be recognized, and CFUGs can provide a valuable institutional framework for the preparedness, response and recovery from disasters and to build resilience in the future.

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Section: Community Forestry Institutional Capacity For Disaster Respomentioning

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Section: Community Forestry Institutional Capacity For Disaster Respomentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

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Maraseni

Paudel

et al. 2020

Research in Globalization

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“…The creation of governance standards and associated certification programs for both timber and non-timber products, which meet the needs of stakeholders, and deliver the conservation of natural resources, represents a potential solution to ensuring the sustainable management of wildlife and forest resources into the future. However, without genuine capacity building for marginalized stakeholders on the ground and the equitable distribution of resources, there is little prospect of a viable future for the forests of Nepal [118]. CF conditions should be improved by mobilizing marginalized people in forest-dependent communities and boosting their livelihoods through the growth of marginalized-led enterprises.…”

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Forest Governance in Nepal concerning Sustainable Community Forest Management and Red Panda Conservation

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Maraseni

Koju³

et al. 2023

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This paper investigates issues confronting forest management and sustainability, focusing on the governance of the community forest user group (CFUG) initiative in Nepal. The paper begins with a literature review to give a general overview of the historical and current situation of forest governance in Nepal. It explores the historical impacts of unsustainable logging in Nepal and the World Bank Report, which both investigated and explored avenues for improving the forest situation, including community forestry. The paper outlines the development of community forestry, the legislative, regulatory, and governance frameworks underpinning this unique system of community-driven forest management, and its relationship to sustainable forest management (SFM). SFM in turn has engendered a market for sustainably derived timber and labeling systems for ‘good’ wood. The paper continues by providing an analysis of stakeholder attitudes regarding the current forest governance situation in Nepal. Furthermore, it provides another small case study on how such standards might be applied in the local community context of protecting Nepal’s Red Panda while simultaneously delivering sustainable forest management and community development. It concludes with a discussion on the need for governance standards for forest management and community forestry in Nepal.

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“…In addition, from the perspective of proponents on the ground, the main challenges faced are land tenure rights and REDD+ credit ownership, followed by the economic disadvantages of engaging in REDD+ activities, political interests, carbon market creation [5], and the capacity to fairly share benefits [6,22,23]. The latter is one of the most crucial challenges because it contributes to engaging people to take the desired actions to meet the ultimate goals of REDD+ [24]. Therefore, it is crucial that the benefit-sharing mechanism to be developed enables the recognition of local populations in REDD+ strategy and promotes their engagement.…”

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Challenges of Sharing REDD+ Benefits in the Amazon Region

Guerra

Moutinho

2020

Forests

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The success of jurisdictional reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) initiatives is entirely dependent on how the REDD+ benefits are distributed among the stakeholders seeking to preserve the native vegetation and is considered one of the main challenges of REDD+. Among the existing benefit-sharing options, the adoption of the stock-and-flow approach to share REDD+ benefits has afforded fair jurisdictional systems in the states of Acre and Mato Grosso in the Brazilian Amazon. This innovative perspective is also the dividing line between inequitable and socially balanced jurisdictional REDD+ initiatives. However, these jurisdictions present challenges to fully implementing a robust benefit-sharing mechanism including the stock-and-flow approach and guaranteeing that resources will be accessible to the relevant beneficiaries. To better understand these challenges, we applied the Options Assessment Framework (OAF), a methodology proposed by the World Bank to evaluate the capacity to implement an effective benefit-sharing mechanism for REDD+, in Acre and Mato Grosso. The results indicated that these jurisdictions need to strengthen their conditions to guarantee the multi-faceted functionality of this mechanism and determine what aspects need more attention and where resources should be invested. Additionally, the results indicated that an equitable benefit-sharing mechanism is, by far, the main challenge faced by jurisdictions. Despite being a more evolved state in its REDD+ policies, Acre still needs to improve its institutional capacities, particularly in its local civil society organizations, to help communities access these benefits. The state of Mato Grosso, on the other hand, is still engaging in its REDD+ initiative and needs its institutional capacities to further mature to better organize its monitoring mechanisms and governance.

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Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in REDD+

Cited by 27 publications

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Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Forest Governance in Nepal concerning Sustainable Community Forest Management and Red Panda Conservation

Challenges of Sharing REDD+ Benefits in the Amazon Region

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