A three-day Nursery management and development training commenced on 23rd Feb 2020 at Patlepani Nursery, Chautara Sangachowk has been accomplished. Eight nursery caretakers (3 female, 5 male) participated in the training. The objective of this training was to strengthen the capacity of the existing nursery caretakers from six EnLiFT-2 clusters on high-value forest nursery and green […]
The Socio-ecological survey that kicked off from October 2019, primarily aims at generating quantitative and qualitative data of a stratified sample of households within 30 community forest user groups (CFUGs) in Kavre and Sindhupalchok. As a part of the five year project, Enhancing Livelihoods from Improved Forest Management in Nepal (EnLiFT2), the purpose of this […]
(Dr. Bishnuhari Pandit, Benju Baniya and Rupa Chapagain), 19-22 July 2019 A. Budol Nursery visit, 19th July, 2019 Purpose of the field visit was to monitor the overall status of saplings in Budol nursery. Total number of seedlings was counted to be 13,372 of nine species namely Bhatmase, Mendula, Amala, Tanki, Masala, Barro, Tejpatta and […]
With a view to search possibilities and plan on appreciative collaboration between CFUG and LG in future, a workshop was carried out with the facilitation of team of Forest Action Nepal, EnLiFT II (Dr. Mani Ram Banjade, Kamal Bhandari, Amrit Kumar Poudel and Gyanu Maya Tamang). The workshop was held on 8 August 2019 at […]
Dated: 29 May-3 August, 2019 (intermittently) With the establishment of research plots in Hile Jaljale ‘Ka’ Community Forest (CF), EnLiFT II has accomplished the establishment of silvicultural research plots in all the sites. Four research plots, each of 1 ha (100m x 100m), are established in every site representing three silvicultural treatments (Shelterwood, Disperesed Variable […]
Dr Ian Nuberg from University of Adelaide; Mr Rahul Karki and Ms Yuvika Adhikari from ForestAction Nepal participated in the 4th World Conference on Agroforestry held from 20 to 22 May 2019 at Le Corum Conference Centre, Montpellier, France. They also participated in an information exchange workshop, a side event organized by ACIAR to capitalize […]
Two days training on safe operation and maintenance of power chainsaw was successfully conducted at Chautara, Sindhupalchowk from 25 to 26 March 2019 and at Banepa from 9 to 10 April 2019. The participants were the local forest users, Forest Officers and Forest Rangers. The training was organized to introduce knowledge and build skills on […]
ForestAction Nepal under the EnLiFT project organized meetings with the community forest user groups of Bhagwanthumki, Banepa, one of the research sites of the project. The meeting was carried out from 24 February to 8 March 2019. Mr Kamal Bhandari, a member of the EnLiFT research team, informed the participants about the EnLiFT project and […]
A district level inception meeting of EnLiFT 2 was organized on 3 February, 2019 at Dhulikhel Lodge Resort, Kavrepalanchowk to develop a common understanding among stakeholders regarding the project. The participants were the representatives from local government, FECOFUN, FEnFit, CFUGs and media. The program was chaired by Mr Badri Kumar Karki, Chief, Divisional Forest Office […]
A District level pre-inception meeting was organized on 16 January 2019 at Kavrepalanchowk and on 17 January 2019 at Sindhupalchowk.The primarily focus of both the meetings were to reflect on preliminary field visit, develop common understanding and co-operation regarding project and plan further actions.