People of the community
Bighnaharta Nepal
Community participation
The communities living in thes project landscapes are directly involved in all phases of this project: household selection, area(s) selection, plantation and supervision of all activities. The project promotes active participation and involvement in decision-making processes.
- Community sensitization, to make them aware of the problem
- Reliability on indigenous knowledge about nature based solutions
- Understanding that the project is in the interest of national and global donors, but should ultimately be in-line with the local, regional and national priorities
- Trust between the community and the organization had to be developed
During the inception of this project we relied heavily and in some cases solely on the local's knowlede and age old indegenious craft. But during the process we came to know that some of the componenets were irelevant and had to be balanced with some modern techniques and technologies too.
We also learned that, the interest of the community and the local political will doesnt always match.