Community forest rights recognized under the Forest Rights Act are important for securing livelihoods of the forest communities and for strengthening local self governance of forests and natural resources. Since implementation of the Forest Rights Act recognition of Community Forest Rights has remained a major challenge. As per the joint MoEF-MoTA committee report and also reports from civil society groups, the provisions for Community Forest Rights (CFRs) have remained largely unimplemented. There is a paucity of information on the CFR process, status and developments in the states and on the initiatives and experiments undertaken by the government and Non Government Organizations. The CFR link is a part of a collective initiative for collection and sharing of information on CFR from different states. The collection and sharing of information is coordinated by Vasundhara and Kalpavriksh with support from Oxfam. .

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