This report summarises the
key findings of a preliminary NGO and community evaluation
of an ongoing Community Forest Management (CFM) project
in Andhra Pradesh, India. The project, funded by the World
Bank, officially claims to be aimed at reducing poverty
and empowering communities to take autonomous decisions
regarding forest management. However, this evaluation finds
that rather than genuinely devolving control over natural
resource management to the communities involved, the APCFM
project is entrenching the control of the Forest Department
at the local level, often against the wishes of the communities.
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