Bastar

Overview

Bastar district in the south of Chhattisgarh state is covered with forests and is home to several tribal communities from central India including Gonds, Halba, Dhurwa, Bhattra, Muria, and Madias. ATREE was invited to work with the Bastar District Administration in 2021 to assist CFRR villages in preparing community forest management plans. Ever since, we have been actively engaged in the district both in the claim-making process as well as in the post-rights forest management process. ATREE currently works with over 27 villages in the district.

Training: At the village and village representative levels, the trainings in Bastar district include:

    1. Claim-making and mapping
    2. Dispute resolution
    3. Community Forest Resource Rights Management Planning
    4. Need-based training support, e.g., ecotourism planning, gender sensitization

Training is also conducted for district and forest field staff and officers, NGOs, and others focused on community forest claim-making, and community forest rights management planning.  

Geospatial Tech: Development of the Aamcho CFR App focused on Bastar district and linking with the WebGIS platform for easing mapping and claim-making process.

Action: The Bastar field coordinators are actively engaged in the processes of mapping, claim-making, and post-rights hand-holding to villages in preparing Community Forest Management Plans. Further need-based assistance is also provided to community-led projects such as plantation, NTFP marketing. 

Policy Outreach: Active engagement with Bastar administration for reducing gaps in CFR titles and claimed area under community forest resource rights (CFRR). 

Research: Leading studies on NTFP dependence, challenges in NTFP marketing, and identifying ways in which livelihoods in CFRR villages can be improved.

This initiative seeks to empower forest-dependent communities, promote sustainable forest use, and enhance equitable livelihoods through a participatory approach. Simultaneously, it strengthens administrative processes and policy convergence to ensure robust, community-driven forest governance.

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Training

Action

Policy Outreach

Geospatial Tech

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