Book & Manuals
Annual report presents the annual summary of activities and financial situation of the ANSAB.
Toolkit 3: Business planning for community based natural product enterprises
Author: ANSAB Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: October 2010 ISBN: 978-99933-796-5-2 Number of Pages: 40+10 Price: Free This Toolkit offers skills, methods and tools with which the field facilitators can support rural people to prepare and implement the business plan for their enterprises. The purpose is…
Toolkit 4: Marketing information system for natural products
Author: ANSAB Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: October 2010 ISBN: 978-99933-796-7-6 Number of Pages: 24+10 Price: Free This Toolkit focuses on the process of setting up a marketing information system (MIS) program and the methods of collection, processing and dissemination of information on markets and marketing…
Toolkit 5: Participatory biodiversity monitoring in community managed forests
Author: ANSAB Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: October 2010 ISBN: 978-999-33-796-9-0 Number of Pages: 54+10 Price: Free This Toolkit provides methods and tools needed to generate useful data to periodically assess the biodiversity status and to track the impact of community based forest management on biodiversity.…
Toolkit 6: Certification of community managed forests
Author: ANSAB Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: October 2010 ISBN: 978-9937-8360-1-2 Number of Pages: 50+10 Price: Free This Toolkit focuses on group forest management certification. The major objective of the toolkit is to provide important methods and tools for developing and implementing the Forest Stewardship Council’s…
Toolkit 7: Chain of custody certification for community forest enterprises
Author: ANSAB Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: October 2010 ISBN: 978-9937-8360-2-9 Number of Pages: 38+10 Price: Free This Toolkit provides field practitioners and program managers with up to date methods, tools and techniques for obtaining and implementing the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) Group Chain of Custody…
Toolkit 8: Development and mobilization of local resource persons
Author: ANSAB Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: October 2010 ISBN: 978-9937-8360-0-5 Number of Pages: 20+8 Price: Free This Toolkit focuses on the process and methods of recruiting, training and mobilizing local resource persons (LRPs) so that development services could be more effectively delivered in rural settings…
Guidelines for measuring carbon stocks in community-managed forests
Author: Bhishma P. Subedi, Shiva Shankar Pandey, Ajay Pandey, Eak Bahadur Rana, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Tibendra Raj Banskota, Shambhu Charmakar, Rijan TamrakarPublisher: ANSAB, FECOFUN, ICIMOD, NORAD Language: English Date of Publication: July 2011 (Second edition) ISBN: 978-9937-2-2612-7 Number of Pages: 66+10 Price: Free Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest…
Challenges and opportunities for Nepal’s small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs)
Author: ANSAB Publisher: Forest Connect, FAO Language: English Date of Publication: 2009 ISBN: Number of Pages: 89+14 Price: Free This report is part of a cross-country research initiative that focuses on small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) and their potential to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainability. It…
Local communities and natural products: A manual for organizing natural resource management groups for resource management planning, enterprise development and integration into value chains
Author: Bhishma Subedi, Hari Dhungana, Deepak Khadka and Sushil Gyawali Publisher: ANSAB, USAID Language: English Date of Publication: September 2007 ISBN: N/A Number of Pages: 62 Price: Free Policies promoting community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) have created an important role for communities in the conservation, management, and use…
Community based forest enterprises in Nepal: Case studies, lessons and implications
Author: Bhishma P. Subedi, Hermant R. Ojha, Ken Nicholson and Surya B. Binayee Publisher: ANSAB and SNV/Nepal Language: English Date of Publication: December 2002 ISBN: 99933-53-38-8 Number of Pages: 109 + 11 Price: Free The publication presents findings of an assessment on present and past initiative in community based forest enterprises. A total of 11…
Enterprise Development Manual
Author: Bhishma Subedi, Ann Koontz, Surya Binayee, Jen Divis, Hemant Ojha and Jack Croucher Publisher: ANSAB Language: English Date of Publication: September 2000 ISBN: N/A Number of Pages: 51 Price: Free ANSAB community-based forest enterprise development manuals are a useful tool for field based practitioners and development managers. The manuals are used extensively within and…