Overview
Chhattisgarh has some of the largest population of tribal communities in the central Indian region, and is also covered with some of India’s richest deciduous forests.
Starting from Bastar district, ATREE has been actively involved in the CFRR claim-making and community forest rights management in Chhattisgarh state since 2021.
Training: We conduct training for village representatives, CSOs engaged in CFR issues, officers of the tribal and forest department and field staff on CFR claim-making, using GIS-based technologies for mapping, and preparing community-led forest management plans.
Geospatial Tech: Developing maps for potential CFRR areas in the state, along with provision of need-based WebGIS support to CSO network organizations.
Policy Outreach: We have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tribal Department of Chhattisgarh state as facilitators for the improved recognition of CFRR and post-rights processes.
Research: Leading studies on NTFP dependence, challenges in NTFP marketing, and identifying ways in which livelihoods in CFRR villages can be improved.
Research
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Community Forest Rights Recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges Community Rights (CR) and Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) provisions of the FRA, when taken together, have the potential to decentralize and deepen democratic forest governance and bring about a transformative change in the economic and social conditions of the local people, and improve the management of the forests.
Training
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Two-Day Community Forest Resource Management Workshop in Bhanupratappur, Kanker Date: 11th to 12th March, 2025 -
Community Forest Resource Management Workshop, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh Date: 21st to 22nd March, 2024 -
CFR Management Training Workshop Pithora, Chhattisgarh Date: 25th to 26th July, 2024 -
Carrying forward learnings on CFRR implementation and management to greater Bastar region In any action research project, how does one balance the need to improve the quality of on-ground interventions with the need to scale-up these interventions to wider geographies? -
Learning From and Carrying Forward CFR Management Planning in Central India How does Community Forest Resource (CFR) management work on the ground? What can we learn from the decade-long history of such management by villages in Maharashtra to build capacities -
Training and Support for Community Forest Rights in Bastar, Chhattisgarh ATREE’s CFR team is training a team of 18 FRA Coordinators chosen from Bastar District to work with Gram Sabhas for claim-making and for developing CFR management plans. -
Action
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CFR Management Training Workshop Pithora, Chhattisgarh Date: 25th to 26th July, 2024
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Community Forest Rights Recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges Community Rights (CR) and Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) provisions of the FRA, when taken together, have the potential to decentralize and deepen democratic forest governance and bring about a transformative change in the economic and social conditions of the local people, and improve the management of the forests.
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Carrying forward learnings on CFRR implementation and management to greater Bastar region In any action research project, how does one balance the need to improve the quality of on-ground interventions with the need to scale-up these interventions to wider geographies?
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Training and Support for Community Forest Rights in Bastar, Chhattisgarh ATREE’s CFR team is training a team of 18 FRA Coordinators chosen from Bastar District to work with Gram Sabhas for claim-making and for developing CFR management plans.
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Policy Outreach
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Chhattisgarh CFR Potential Atlas Date: 15th November, 2024 -
CSO Consultation on DA-JGUA implementation in Chhattisgarh Date: 6th January, 2025 -
A policy brief on Convergence of CFRR with NTFP-based livelihoods Under project on Training, Capacity Building and Support for Decision-Making for CFRR Recognition & Management in Bastar District -
Community Forest Rights Recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges Community Rights (CR) and Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) provisions of the FRA, when taken together, have the potential to decentralize and deepen democratic forest governance and bring about a transformative change in the economic and social conditions of the local people, and improve the management of the forests.
Geospatial Tech
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Chhattisgarh CFR Potential Atlas Date: 15th November, 2024
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Estimating and Mapping CFR Potential This study estimates (a lower bound for) the potential area that could come under CFR rights and the locations of the villages with this CFR potential in four important central Indian states.