Livelihood and Forestry Program

Animation Program/ Livelihood and Forestry Program/DFID

 

SODEC conducted Animation Program across 104 Community Forestry User Groups (CFUG) in 7 Village Development Committees of Sankhuwasava District from August 2002 to July 2010 with financial partnership of Livelihoods and Forestry Program/DIFD.

 

The Program is expected to achieve the expected outputs:

• Internal management systems and social processes of CFUG are more equitable, gender sensitive and strengthened.
• Forest management capacity of CFUG members is improved.

 

 

Achievements of the Program

 

 

• Inception of bottom up planning process among the CFUGs through Self Monitoring and evaluation tool.
• Incorporation of CFUGs’ annual plans into local development planning process of respective VDCs and started work in collaborative way (in all VDCs).
• Mobilization of CFUGs’ idle funds for IGA through formation of women or poor groups to support improving their livelihoods. 5000+ families engaged into IGA ventures.
• Applied wellbeing ranking tool for identifying the real target group and implemented pro-poor activities and CFUGs have started to use it in other equity related initiatives.
• Starting entrepreneurial and income raising activities targeting the most vulnerable groups of the CFUGs.
• Linkage development between CFUGs and development organizations, and establishing CFUGs as the entry point of their program (e.g. Nepal Red Cross Society – CDP).
• Financial support from VDCs on CFUGs’ initiated activities.
• VDC level CFUG networks have been initiated and functioning as a good forum for sharing common issues, experiences, learning and started to address local level conflict and other relevant issues.