Bangladesh Forest Department’s effort under the SUFAL project is to improve collaborative forest management and increase access to alternative income generation activities for forest-dependent communities of Cox’s Bazar Forest. Component 3 focuses on institutionalizing Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) and capacity building of collaborative forest management committees those are the forest-dependent communities at the Hill Cox’s Bazar North and South beats- 64 forest beats and selected PAs.
The main objective of the assignment is to identify forest-dependent communities following Community Identification of Poor (CIP) from forest conservation village, generate baseline information for preparing community profiling by feeding into the database, mobilize and organize participants in collaborative forest management. NACOM will support the formation of CFMC (local institutions), arrange capacity building training for sub-committee members of CFMC and make key members capable of running institutional functions as identified appropriate AIGs following terms and conditions of the community Operational Manual (CoM).