Community Forestry International Projects
Fri, Oct 19 2007

Community Forest Management in Northeast India: Phase I FACILITATING REGIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT

   

Partner Organizations in India:

  • Regional Centre, National Afforestation and Eco Development Board, North-Eastern Hill University
  • Enviro-Legal Defense Firm (ELDF)
  • NE India Regional Working Group
This project was implemented with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This project created an institutional framework and catalyzed a process to allow state policy makers in the Northeast to discuss new policy mechanisms that respond to the unique historical and socio-cultural conditions existing in this region of India. This project involved a three-year effort to guide the formation and operation of a regional policy working group to formulate recommendations for enabling legal frameworks and strategies to facilitate community-based forest conservation. The project arranged cross-visits with government planners and project staff developing parallel strategies in Southeast Asia, to encourage cross-regional learning. It also established and facilitated a policy dialogue regarding the legal position and operational role of resident communities in conserving and managing the forests of northeastern India.

Community Forestry International (CFI) supported its Indian partners by helping to create and facilitating the operations of a Working Group on Community Forest Management Policy in the Northeastern Himalaya. Working Group members were drawn from government administration, forest departments, NGOs and academic institutions in the states of Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland. Based on a series of workshops and field visits, the Working Group prepared recommendations for an enabling CFM policy for Northeastern Indian states. The policy framework built on indigenous management traditions, past and present laws that support community forest stewardship, and emerging national policies supporting democratization and decentralization. 

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Indigenous Forest Stewards of Northeast India

Community Forestry and Policy in North-East India: An Historical Analysis (2004)

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