The main goal of the project was to set up a national demonstrational governance and payment system for emission reduction through sustainable forest management which benefits local communities in general and indigenous people in particular in 3 watershed areas of Nepal.
To achieve this goal, the objective of the pilot project was to:
- Strengthen the capacity of civil society actors in Nepal to ensure their active
- engagement in the planning and preparation of national REDD-strategies.
- Facilitate the establishment a Forest Carbon Trust Fund that is sustainable, equitable and creditable in the long run.
- Contribute to the development of REDD strategies that can effectively and efficiently monitor carbon flux in community managed forests.
- Provide a high degree of replicability and applicability and act as a model- “paving the way for new practices” not only for the Hindu Kush Himalaya region (ICIMOD members countries) but globally wherever CFM is practiced.
