Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (DFIDSEA)

Managing Institute:
NRI (Natural Resources Institute)

Project Code: 167-502-007	Start Date: 01/09/1991	End Date: 01/10/1991
Commitment: £91 168	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Background:
Dwindling forest resources, declining agricultural activity, and a rapidly increasing population are tightly interlocking aspects of a process of environmental degradation and socio-economic impoverishment which, with increasing force in recent decades, has been blighting the fragile ecology of Nepal's middle hills and disrupting the inhabitants modes of livelihood. The Ministry of Finance requested DFID assistance in preparing and implementing a Hill Community Forestry Project in western Nepal. The area to be covered consists of the four districts of Myagadi, Baghung, Parbat and Mustang in Dhawalagari zone. The DFID has been supporting forestry research at Lumle Agricultural Centre in adjacent Kashi District and the extension activities of Lumle have been extended into parts of Parbat and Myagadi District.

Project Objectives:
In collaboration with the Ministry of Forestry, Soil Conservation and Agriculture, and on the basis of existing information on community forestry programmes in Nepal, assess the justification for a hill community forestry project in the four districts of Dhawalagiri.