Developing climate-resilient community forest management and operational plans

About the workshop

ICIMOD has been providing support to the Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) in Province-1 to develop the project “Moving towards climate resilient community forestry (CRCF) in Eastern Himalaya, Nepal”, supported by an International Climate Initiative (IKI) grant. The project aims to strengthen climate resilience of community forestry institutions for adapting to the impacts of climate change, enhance forest carbon sinks, and support biodiversity conservation.

This workshop will also underline how local actions can contribute to global climate actions by developing new management and operational plans that yield greater benefits to the local communities and enhance ecosystem services of forested landscapes. This workshop will also provide orientation on how the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities can be improved through forest restoration and sustainable forest management.

Objectives

This workshop aims to provide guidance to the members of the CFUGs and other stakeholders in developing climate-resilient plans under the “Moving towards climate resilient community forestry (CRCF) in Eastern Himalaya, Nepal” project supported by IKI BMU. The training workshops, which will continue through 2022, also mark our engagement in promoting the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) by engaging with local communities to restore degraded lands in Province-1 of KL. This activity also provides the REDD+ programme with an opportunity to scale-up our lessons learnt through partner institutions.

The framework for this workshop is based on the Sub-national REDD+ Action Plan and biodiversity monitoring protocol. The actual climate-resilient plans will be developed by the CFUGs themselves after the training and implemented with the grant received from IKI with our technical assistance.

Participants

Selected leaders of FECOFUN from Province-1 will participate in this training

Expected outcomes

Following this training programme, members of FECOFUN Province-1 will gain the technical capacity to develop forestry plans that integrate and address climate concerns. We also expect 50 CFUGs to develop climate-resilient operational plans and implement them before the end of 2022.

Workshop dates

11 November – Ilam

14 November – Dhankuta

15 November – Morang

Agenda

The agenda for all three workshops will be the same.