Breve descripción de la práctica óptima

Use of the Forest Rights Act to get the village their forest area’s tenure rights. Impart knowledge to the villager about Forest Rights Act and its provision. Hold capacity building and knowledge dissemination workshop with all stakeholders including forest department officials for operationalisation of the act. All these processes are directed towards getting people take interest in regeneration of the forest. Example- through Joint Forest Management (JFM)

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75 Villages, Udaipur Rajasthan, India|

Breve descripción del entorno natural en el lugar especificado

The average rainfall in Jhadol area ranges from 450mm to 650mm.  Summer season is very hot, maximum temperature goes up to 46 C|
Mainly hilly
Loamy and Rocky

Condiciones socioeconómicas imperantes de los habitantes del lugar o las proximidades

Most of the households have their own land or patta in the village
Most of the households are Below Poverty Line (BPL) families

¿En base de qué criterios o indicadores (no relacionados con la Estrategia) se ha considerado la práctica propuesta y la tecnología correspondiente como ‘óptima’?

Consensus evolved during the National Consultation process.

Principales problemas que trata la práctica óptima

Encroachment of forest areas leading to degradation of land - Since this process and the end objective is totally fair and invites officials to verify the claim, there is public will to prevent future encroachment in the area. |Conflict between villagers and forest department - Giving community right to the village means the relationships between village vis-a-viz the gram panchayat in future will be strengthened with regard to conflict management and decision making.|Protection of forest resources- With ownership of the area, generally comes a sense of responsibility for the area. Hence the proper protection and management of the community forests  will be done

Explique los problemas específicos de la degradación de las tierras que trata la práctica óptima.

With little or no control of village community over its forest area and its produce, a section of the community is left with no choice but to overuse the land produce. There is also the issue of overgrazing of livestock and encroachment. So lack of management of the forest area.|

Especifique los objetivos de la práctica óptima.

To get the tenure rights|In the process of getting the rights, increase the capacity of the stakeholders

Breve descripción de las principales actividades, por objetivo

The workers involved in the process and also the officials will get sensitize with the issue and there will be sharing of knowledge. Hence to achieve this we had a project on the operationalisation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in the year 2008 in partnership with SDC. |Arranged many workshops with different stakeholders and at various platforms.
Follow the procedure as given in the Forest Right Act to get the tenure right. This involves holding Gram Sabha in the village plus verification of the site with patwari and Forest Department

Breve descripción y especificaciones técnicas de la tecnología

The commons are protected from encroachment and degradation. Regeneration of forest can be done through plantation and protection. The tenure right will give the community a tool for management and protection of their respective forest areas over which they have only rights and concessions.

Nombre y dirección de la institución que desarrolla la tecnología

Seva Mandir|Old Fatehpura
Udaipur 313004
Rajasthan
India

¿La tecnología se desarrolló en una alianza?

Sí

enumere los asociados:

Van Utthan Sansthan|Sewa Mandir

Especifique el marco en el que se promovió la tecnología

• Iniciativa local

¿La participación de interesados locales, incluidas las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, favoreció el desarrollo de la tecnología?

Sí

enumere los interesados participantes:

Village forest protection committee

Detalle la función de los interesados enumerados anteriormente en cuanto a diseño, introducción, uso y mantenimiento de la tecnología, en su caso.

The Application for Community Forest Rights included two components
• Application for the Use rights for usufruct from the forest produce
• Application for the support of existing rights over a particular area to develop and conserve it under JFM and Community Conserved Areas.

¿La población que habitaba en el lugar o en las proximidades participó en el desarrollo de la tecnología?

Sí

¿de qué manera?

• Planteamientos basados en la participación

Especifique:

Yes Initially in the form of the forest protection committee but later on in consultation with the Joint Committee on Forest Rights Act we applied in the name of the complete village population.

Describa los impactos in situ (los dos principales impactos por categoría).

Fostering Community Cohesion as well as sensitization about the right to ownership and access to forest produce
Encouraging people to realize the need to conserve the ecology through regenerative measures as well as policy level initiatives like the application for community forest rights over certain developed or good forest areas.

Describa los dos principales impactos fuera del lugar (por ejemplo, que no se registran en el lugar, pero sí en las zonas próximas).

Learnings towards constructive activism to stave off dangers that come when the responsibilities of the community are being ignored. Therefore we would say how to illustrate the responsibilities when given to community can bear better returns than individual land distribution and dispute settlement.
Policy Level Spin-offs in terms of the methodology and the process followed in the same.

Impacto en la diversidad biológica y el cambio climático

Justifíquelo:

Practice is to focus on community managed forests ecosystem by using the various policies that have been promugulated. The quality of forest is an insurance against the failures of mosoon for the marginal farmers as minor forest produce & moisture vaialibity due to green cover reduces vulnerabilty
Regeneration of forest through plantation and protection helps in mitigation of through carbon sequestration

¿Se ha elaborado un análisis costo-beneficio?

¿Se ha elaborado un análisis costo-beneficio? :

No

¿La tecnología se difundió o introdujo en otros lugares?

¿La tecnología se difundió o introdujo en otros lugares? :

Sí

¿Dónde? :

Kherwara|Kotra

Replicabilidad

¿En su opinión, la práctica óptima/la tecnología que ha propuesto se puede reproducir en cualquier otro lugar con un cierto nivel de adaptación?

Sí

¿A qué nivel?

• Local
• Subnacional