Under collaborative forest management, project activities like restoration and afforestation have been implemented in the Forest Beat where project participants are selected from adjacent villages within 1-3 km. Concerned villages are known as Forest Conservation Villages (FCV) consisting of 200-500 households and village-level CFM committees have been formed. The baseline survey is likely to reveal that not all villages or parts of the village have an equal impact on afforestation and forest restoration activities. Depending on the context, a small portion of the adjacent villages which have the impact on afforestation/forest restoration can be combined together as an FCV, and accordingly, concerned village-level institutions have been formed.
Diagram of village level institutions for CFM
Formation of CFMC
Collaborative Forest Management Committee (CFMC) is treated as executive committee which is formed by comprising nine (9) members. This committee is led by a Convener who is elected from Forest Conservation Village (FCV). Member Secretary is a BFD staff who has been nominated by the concerned Beat Officer. Five (5) members, having representation of 1 to 2 women member, is directly elected from five sub-committees (FPCC, SAC, VCSC, FAC & PC). One (1) member is selected from existing social forestry group members. The social forestry committee has to select one member as their representative and another one (1) member is selected from CMC of Protected Area. Where there is no PA, then both of these members are selected from social forestry group members. The structure of CFMC is as follows:
Structure of Collaborative Forest Management Committee
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