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The learnings are applied through trainings and workshops for FRA coordinators, including baseline survey methods and a six-stage management planning template used to draft practical village plans.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/","Template",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/letters/","Letters",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/the-week-that-was-article-13th-april/239616/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-week-that-was-article-13th-april/239616.png","ImageObject",442,249,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Mabel","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-19","2026-09-11",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":55},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",7,{"@type":57,"mainEntity":58},"FAQPage",[59,65,69],{"name":60,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":62},"How does CFR management work on the ground in Pachgaon?","Question",{"text":63,"@type":64},"Pachgaon combines forest protection with democratic decision-making and bamboo harvesting rules that ensure quality, sustainability, and equitable livelihood sharing, with villagers handling harvest, auction, transport, sales, and records.","Answer",{"name":66,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":67},"What training activities were conducted for FRA coordinators in Bastar?",{"text":68,"@type":64},"A workshop in Bastar trained FRA coordinators on the objectives and structuring of CFR management plans, including methods for social and ecological baseline surveys, using a six-stage management planning template.",{"name":70,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":71},"How was the Pachgaon learning applied to Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh?",{"text":72,"@type":64},"The team used insights from the Pachgaon study tour to support training programs in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, where CFR titles were being issued, and to initiate plan preparation with village groups.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},239616,1791073994,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",[84,89,94,99,104,109,114,118,123],{"id":85,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":86,"show_sort_weight":87,"slug":88},11,"Presentations",90,"presentations",{"id":90,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":91,"show_sort_weight":92,"slug":93},12,"Resumes",80,"resumes",{"id":95,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},14,"Invoices",70,"invoices",{"id":100,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},15,"Posters",60,"posters",{"id":105,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},16,"Social Media",50,"social-media",{"id":110,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},17,"Forms",40,"forms",{"id":115,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},18,30,"letters",{"id":119,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},21,"Paper Templates",5,"papers-templates",{"id":124,"doc_module":22,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":4,"slug":126},158,"General","general-158",{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":128},{"doc_id":79,"user_id":129,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":130,"doc_module":22,"category_id":115,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":131,"file_id":132,"file_url":133,"file_type":134,"file_size":135,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":136,"language":137,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":138,"faqs":139,"seo_title":140,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":141,"read_time":33},7971474920318,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/74000ee537e6b0ca360?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1788430171632181674","Learning From and Carrying Forward CFR Management Planning in Central India  \nAnanya Rao (with help from Venkat Ramanujam, Anubhav Shori, and  \nSharachchandra Lele)  \nHow 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 elsewhere? Our CFR-Central India team’s research, observations and interactions with communities and CSOs in Maharashtra has helped us gain an understanding which we are now deploying in training programmes on CFR management planning in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, where CFR titles are just now being given.  \nStudy tour to Pachgaon (Amravati district, Maharashtra), a CFR success story  \nOur team of 18 FRA Coordinators (a team mainly composed of Adivasi youth, including women) has been working over the past 5 months in Bastar district to initiate the CFR rights claimmaking process in many villages. The next step was to train them in how to create good CFR management plans. Perhaps the best way to learn is to see a success story yourself. In this spirit, we organised an exposure visit to Pachgaon village, in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra between March 5th-6th, 2022. Sharachchandra Lele (Project Lead) coordinated the visit along with Anubhav Shori (District Coordinator) and Tulsi Thakur (honorary Master Trainer) . Post-docs Atul Joshi and Shruti Mokashi joined us there from their field sites in Yavatmal.  \nPachgaon Gram Sabha (village general body) received CFR rights for 1,006 hectares of forest land in June 2012. Since then, the village has engaged in a highly democratic process of forest protection and bamboo harvesting and sale for livelihood enhancement. Our study tour included an evening meeting with the Pachgaon Gram Sabha and a half-day excursion into their forest to observe their practices of bamboo harvesting and conservation (including their sacred grove), followed by a detailed discussion and record perusal with volunteers Sanjeev and Vikas.  \nATREE Team at Pachgaon village  \nVillagers working in the forest explained their method of harvest which is guided by a set of rules that ensure bamboo quality (only 3 year old bamboo) and sustainability (only 1/4th of the area is harvested and a minimum number of mature bamboos are left unharvested in each culm), as well as equitable sharing of the livelihood opportunity (by limiting how much each person may harvest per day) . The entire process of harvest, auction, transport, and sale of bamboo and all associated record-keeping and accounting is handled entirely by the villagers, which has resulted in increased incomes and empowerment. Dispersed authority and transparency ensures accountability to the Gram Sabha.  \nWoman harvester in Pachgaon sorting bamboo by quality  \n(Photo Credits: Yugal Joshi)  \nATREE Team discussing management planning experiences with representatives from  \nPachgaon  \nCFR Management training in Bastar  \nThe learnings from the Pachgaon visit were leveraged to conduct a workshop on CFR management planning for our team of FRA coordinators in Bastar during 8th and 10th March. The workshop was conducted by Sharachchndra Lele, Shruti Mokashi and Atul Joshi and drew on a management planning template jointly prepared by ATREE and TISS that was notified by the Government of Maharashtra in 2017. The FRA coordinators were taken through the objectives of management planning, the process of structuring a plan, and methods for conducting social and ecological baseline surveys. The template that was used breaks down the task of management planning into six basic stages; outlining the current status of the CFR area, needs from the CFR, threats to the CFR, a plan that addresses the threats, the support that is needed from the state, and a timeline for the plan. These six prompts can be used to help a village develop a simple understandable and practical plan in the form of their main concerns  \nand challenges, and s","cbCaifICygdwrcmI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifICygdwrcmI","pdf",494541,10,"English","# CFR Management Planning in Central India\n## Study tour to Pachgaon\n## CFR Management training in Bastar\n## Initiating CFR management planning in Dantewada","[{\"question\":\"How does CFR management work on the ground in Pachgaon?\",\"answer\":\"Pachgaon combines forest protection with democratic decision-making and bamboo harvesting rules that ensure quality, sustainability, and equitable livelihood sharing, with villagers handling harvest, auction, transport, sales, and records.\"},{\"question\":\"What training activities were conducted for FRA coordinators in Bastar?\",\"answer\":\"A workshop in Bastar trained FRA coordinators on the objectives and structuring of CFR management plans, including methods for social and ecological baseline surveys, using a six-stage management planning template.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the Pachgaon learning applied to Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh?\",\"answer\":\"The team used insights from the Pachgaon study tour to support training programs in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, where CFR titles were being issued, and to initiate plan preparation with village groups.\"}]","The Week That Was - Article 13th April | PDF",1789151024]