Brève description de la meilleure pratique

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)

Site

75 Villages, Udaipur Rajasthan, India|

Brève description de l’environnement naturel du site

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

Conditions socio-économiques dominantes des personnes vivant sur ou à proximité du site

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

Sur la base de quel critère/indicateur(s) (sans relation avec la stratégie) la pratique proposée et technologie correspondante ont-elles été considérées comme « meilleures »?

Consensus evolved during the National Consultation process.

Principaux problèmes abordés par la meilleure pratique

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

Décrivez les principaux problèmes liés à la dégradation des terres abordés par la meilleure pratique

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.|

Précisez les objectifs de la meilleure pratique

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

Brève description des principales activités, par objectif

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

Brève description et caractéristiques techniques de la technologie

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.

Nom et adresse de l’institution développant la technologie

Seva Mandir|Old Fatehpura
Udaipur 313004
Rajasthan
India

La technologie a-t-elle été développée en partenariat ?

Oui

Dressez la liste des partenaires :

Van Utthan Sansthan|Sewa Mandir

Précisez le cadre de promotion de la technologie

• Initiative locale

La participation des parties prenantes locales, y compris des OSC, a-t-elle été recherchée au cours du développement de la technologie ?

Oui

Dressez la liste des parties prenantes locales:

Village forest protection committee

Précisez le rôle des parties prenantes ci-dessus dans la conception, l’introduction, l’utilisation et la maintenance de la technologie, le cas échéant.

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 population vivant sur ou à proximité du site a-t-elle été impliquée dans le développement de la technologie?

Oui

Par quels moyens?

• Approches participatives

Précisez:

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.

Décrivez les impacts sur site (les deux principaux impacts par catégorie)

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.

Décrivez les deux principaux impacts hors site (dans les environs)

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.

Impact sur la biodiversité et le changement climatique

Décrivez:

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

Une analyse coût-avantage a-t-elle été réalisée?

Une analyse coût-avantage a-t-elle été réalisée? :

Non

La technologie a-t-elle été diffusée/introduite sur d’autres sites?

La technologie a-t-elle été diffusée/introduite sur d’autres sites? :

Oui

Où?

Kherwara|Kotra

Réplication

Selon vous, la meilleure pratique/technologie proposée peut-elle reproduite, y compris avec un certain degré d’adaptation?

Oui

Si oui, à quel niveau?

• Local
• Sous-national