Forest

Forest Connect’ is a four years program endeavoring to reduce poverty by linking small and medium forest enterprises with national forest programmes, emerging markets and service providers. From 2007 to 2010, the program is being implemented in Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Guyana, Lao PDR, Mali, Mozambique, Uganda, China and in Nepal. Within coordinated efforts made in different countries, Forest Connect Nepal aims to contribute to the goal of Forest Connect as a whole through increasing the visibility of specific Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFE) sector of Nepal



; increasing the level of organization and connectedness of ‘Forest Connect’ MFE members to markets, service providers and policy processes; and increasing the viability of ‘Forest Connect’ members in the market.
Starting December 2008,545454 the second phase of the "Forest Connect Nepal" project is being implemented in Nepal by ANSAB, with an obejctive of :

Increasning the visibility of specific Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFE) in Nepal;
Increasing the level of organization and connectedness of "Forest Connect" SMFE members to market, service providers and policy processess; and
Increasing the viability of "Forest Connect" members in the market.
The project within its duration of eight months also aims to connect SMFEs to:
National forest programmes (empowering SMFEs to be heard by policy makers);
Emerging markets (by supporting existing SMFE assotiations); and
Service providers (strengthening their capacity to provide trainings and finance).