ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on India and Nepal, the two South Asian countries with the most extensive use of community forestry or in this case co-management. This topic is an application of the participatory development model discussed in Chapter 3, and as such the same conceptual framework applies. It can also be thought of in some cases as a model of co-production in which the state and civil society jointly produce goods and services. In this case, the reference is to forest services. The success of this model of co-production for forest management is evaluated for both Nepal and India.
