Initiative taken in NTFP policy research

The community forest and NTFP policy research workshop held on July 28-30, 2004 on Godavari come to an end with tangible findings, a concrete result of participatory action research as an initiative in the community forest and NTFP sub-sector of Nepal. Policies were formulated, amended and imposed, despite justifiable policy research was never get done. In this context, ANSAB organized the workshop congregating representatives from MFSC, DoF, HBTL, BDS-MaPS, FECOFUN, HJSS, NEFEJ, IDRC, SNV, DPR, NARMSAP, MAPPA-Nepal and New Era. The discussion on policy process went intensive among the prudent and wise arguments of policy champions and the real voices of the grassroots people.

The objective of the workshop was to carry out experiential learning of key stakeholders in the framework of participatory action research on policy formulation process of the decisions made in the past digging into the reflection, impact experimentations, experiences and outcomes. To come up with the objectives there were efforts made on how the processes carried out in the past have helped in formulating policies.