Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme (LFLP)

General

The goal of the programme was to reduce poverty by allocating leasehold forestry plots to about 44,300 households in the mid-hills area of Nepal, thus enabling them to increase their income from forest products and livestock. Specifically the programme addresses leasehold forestry and group formation, livestock development, rural financial services, and programme management and coordination. Land and natural resource governance related interventions intended to provide support for district planning and coordination; group formation and forest allocation; land and forest development; forest implementation support and social mobilisation, including women which receive trainings for group management and rural finance.