Forest act of 2019 of Nepal

1. The Forest Act,
2019
Pashupati Nath Koirala
koiralapn@gmail.com
Salient Feature

2. Outline of presentation
Introduction
Main
components
Definition
Potential
outcomes
and impact

3. National
Prosperity
Protecting
Promoting
Utilizing
Govt
managed
forests
Forest
Conservation
Areas
Collaborative
forests
Community
forests
And Religious
forest
Leasehold
forests
Public
Privat
e
Urban
forests
Environment
Wildlife
Biodiversity
Watersheds

4. Main
components
Definition of Forests
Ownership of the forest land
Power of acquire Land
• Community forests
• Collaborative Forests
• Forest Conservation Areas
• Religious forests
• Leasehold Forests ( Pro-poor)
Community Based Forest Management systems

5. Main
components
Government Managed Forests
• Commercial Leasehold Forests
Private Forests
Management of Logs/Medicinal Plants ( Harvesting and Release,
export etc)
Royalty
Offences and Penalty
Environmental Services ( Carbon Trading)
Wildlife Conservation Arrangement/ Human Wild Life Conflict

6. Main
components
Benefit Sharing Mechanism
• Community Forests ( All by CFUG;
but different mechanisms in the
provinces)
• Collaborative Forests
• Religious Forests
• Forest Conservation Areas
• Private Forests
• Government Management Forests

7. Main
components
Provisions relating to Development
Projects
Provision Relating to Environmental
Services
• Climate Change adaptation and carbon
conservation
Establishment of forest development
fund
Provision relating to armed forest
guards

8. Miscellaneous
• Inter level coordination
• Provision relating to study
and research
• Power to declare forest seed
garden
• Power to pursue agro-forest
system ( Agro-forestry
defined)
• Reward to informant

9. Definition
Trophy
Inter-provincial
forest
Forest and Forest
areas
Armed forest
guards
Forest
Conservation
Areas ( Forest
Protection Areas)
Collaborative
Forests (
Partnership
forests)

10. Impact areas?
• National Income ?
• Supply of forests products ?
• Biodiversity Conservation ?
• Environmental services ?
• Watershed conservation ?
• Others ? …….

11. Federalized or Decentralized?

12. Federal government powers Forest Act
Federal control
• Integrated or provincial strategic plan for
management of national forest within province
and inter-province forests
• Protect conserve, promote, manage wetlands
within national forest
• Provision of national forest on lease to
corporate bodies
• Allocation of national forest for infrastructure
development projects
Province questions
• Royalty is collected and redistributed by
federal govt
• Land allocation – federal govt
• Criminal offences – federal govt
• Land ownership – federal govt
• DFOs – federal govt
• Large areas of forest – Chure, inter-
provincial and forest conservation –
federal govt
What is left for the province?
Local government
questions
What is left for
local government?
• Forests fall in LG
jurisdiction,
functions,
functionaries
and control
outside

13. Institutional structure of forest tenure types:
Forest Act – federal vision of forest sector
National forests
Federal Provincial Local
Interprovincial forest
Provincial forest
Community
forest
Collaborative
forest
Forest Conservation
Areas
Wetlands
Leasehold
forest
Religious
forest
Urban
forest
Public land
Private
forest

14. Different visions for the forest sector: view
from the province
National forests
Federal Provincial Local
Interprovincial forest
Provincial forest
Community
forest
Collaborative
forest
Forest Conservation
Areas
Wetlands
Leasehold
forest
Religious
forest
Urban
forest
Public land
Private
forest
Policy,
standards,
international
agreements
National Parks

15. Different visions for the forest sector: view from the local
– Local Government Operation Act++, Forest Policy
National forests
Federal Provincial Local
Interprovincial forest
Provincial forest
Community
forest
Collaborative
forest
Forest Conservation
Areas
Wetlands
Leasehold
forest
Religious
forest
Urban
forest
Public land
Private
forest
Policy,
standards,
international
agreements
National Parks

16. Discussions….