Financial Assessment of Forest Management Systems in the Community Forests: A Case Study from the Midhills of Nepal

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Cost</td><td class="align_center">ConvFM</td><td class="align_center">SciFM</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Forest management</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Audit report review (2012–2014)/focus group discussion</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Audit report review (2015–2017)/focus group discussion</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Administrative</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Harvesting and logging</td><td class="align_center">Focus group discussion/traders’ interview</td><td class="align_center">Focus group discussion/traders’ interview</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Plan preparation and revision</td><td class="align_center">Focus group discussion/semistructured interview</td><td class="align_center">Records review/annual progress report</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Kind contribution (voluntary labor of forest user groups)</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Rapid survey/focus group discussion</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Transaction costs</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Rapid survey/focus group discussion</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Membership fee</td><td class="align_center">Records/audit report review (2012–14)</td><td class="align_center">Records/audit report review (2015–17)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Methods followed for the estimation of cost.</div>

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Table 4: Financial Assessment of Forest Management Systems in the Community Forests: A Case Study from the Midhills of Nepal 