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词条 Goganpani, Bagmati
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  1. Community forest

  2. References

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}}Goganpani is a Village Development Committee in Dhading District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3847 and had 686 houses in it.[2]

Community forest

The Majha Gaon Community Forest is located in Ward No. 3 of the Goganpani Village Development

Committee (VDC), and Dhading is about a 45-minute walk from Eklephant (near the Simle bazaar) of the

Prithvi Highway. The community forest covers 199.9 hectares.

In 1988, people who lived in a community near the Majha Gaon forest began working on their own initiatives

to protect their forest. According to a policy to hand over all accessible forest to local communities, the

Majha Gaon forest was finally handed over to Goganpani, a community of 50 households, in 1996. Currently,

there are 81 households that have use rights from this community forest. Unfortunately, as the protection

initiative was taken by the inhabitants of the Goganpani VDC, the forest was handed over to them without

following the process of user identification, and other traditional users such as the inhabitants of Bhumisthan

VDC, Eklephant were excluded. Seventeen households from Bhumisthan VDC were excluded from forest

use rights and subsequently annoyed with both the FUG and District Forest Officer (DFO). They raised

objections and demanded use rights but were ignored. The antagonism between the FUG members and the

excluded group increased daily. The FUG neither recognized the inhabitants of Bhumisthan VDC Eklephant

as users nor could they get support for forest conservation from this group. Bhumisthan inhabitants

continued to take forest products from the Majha Gaon forest. Though FUG members had patrolled the

forest, they could not control them. Moreover, the forest is in the vicinity of the highway, so illegal loggers

and smugglers also entered the forest, felled trees, and transported the timber in the evenings. The excluded

group had no incentive to support forest conservation and thus the forest was victimized by conflict.

RIMS Nepal began work on the USAID-funded Strengthened Actions for Governance in Utilization of

National Resources (SAGUN) program in Dhading in 2002, envisioning the internalization of good

governance practices in natural resource management groups. RIMS Nepal staff facilitated the Dhading FUG

in strengthening governance and advocacy. All community members near Majha Gaon had the opportunity to

participate in SAGUN. They learned the importance of conflict management for institutional, technical, and

governance capacity development. The SAGUN program coordinated/facilitated meetings several times for

this FUG. The FUG chairman, Mr. Murari, and other executive members also realized the importance of the

support from all villagers for protection and effective management of forest. Kanchha Bhandari and Prem

Bahadur Chhetri from Kaji Tole (Eklephant) also tried to reduce the antagonism. They worked to reach a

middle ground for the conservation and management of forest with common interests. The chairperson of

the neighboring Bhasmelampokhari FUG, Mr. K.B. Thapa, mediated to resolve the use rights conflict

between the inhabitants of Goganpani-3 and Bhumisthan VDC Eklephant.

In 2003, the Majha Gaon community forestry operational plan was revised. A forest technician from RIMSNepal

facilitated the revision process. This time, the plan and its revision was process orientated. Several

small group meetings were held and all users, including the previously excluded ones, actively participated in

the user identification and rule formulation process. A general assembly was organized comprising all 81

households. The inhabitants of Eklephant also got recognition as formal users of the Majha Gaon FUG. In

lieu of new membership, they agreed to pay NRs 500 as an entrance fee. In addition, the general assembly made special provision for Chyangdunge Magar and Putali B.K., who can now gather forest products free of

charge and are excused from their labor contribution as they are among the poorest members of the Majha

Gaon FUG (identified by the Participatory Well Being Ranking).

Currently, FUG members have a good relationship with each other, and work cohesively for collective action.

The illegal felling by smugglers and illegal users who entered from the highway is now under control. Users

have learned and practiced governance and equity in their group. They are now aware of their roles,

responsibilities, and rights. The group has organized public hearings and public auditing (PHPA) and has

collected misused funds and dues, for example former EC member Mr. Bishnu Subedi has committed to

refund NRs 4000, which was misused and unknown to other general members before the PHPA. The FUG

has also constructed two small bridges in Kolpu Khola and Mahesh Khola, for which they invested NRs

15000 and contributed volunteer labor worth NRs 5000.

All the members from this FUG are now happy with the activities and initiatives for community

development. Kanchha Bhandari, recalling the bitter history, remarked, “if we had not been divided, if we did

not have this conflict, we could have done much better for our community. It was a pity. Now we have

learned a valuable lesson from this.”

References

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2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |title=Nepal Census 2001 |work=Nepal's Village Development Committees |publisher=Digital Himalaya |accessdate=2008-08-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |archivedate=2008-10-12 |df= }}
{{Dhading District}}{{coord|27|47|0|N|85|6|0|E|source:plwiki|display=title}}

1 : Populated places in Dhading District

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