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Promise and performance: 10 years of Forests Rights Act in India [1]

This report seeks to highlight the potential of FRA, assess its achievements, identify the bottlenecks, and find the ways forward. Its objectives are to: Make a quantitative estimate of forest land that has the potential to be recognized as CFR area, and compare it to the actual forest area recognized as CFRs across the country; Assess the qualitative potential of FRA for gender equal development, poverty alleviation, climate change and biodiversity conservation; Compile the progress of recognition of other major rights under FRA, such as IFR, CR and habitat rights; Identify the major institutional and procedural bottlenecks in FRA implementation; and Identify the ways forward.

Publication Date: 
16/12/2016
Oxfam India [2]
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006 [3], Community Forest Management (CFM) [4], Forest Resources [5], India [6], Forest Policy [7], Forest Villages [8], Tribals [9]
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