 Well, welcome to the session on Building Sustainable Community-Based Adaptation and the topic or experience that we would like to share with you. Let me check. Everyone hear me well? If you can raise your thumb up or any signal that I can see, that would be great. So in the case that you have any problem in terms of listening to a speaker, you can raise your hands. So the session that we try to discuss in the next 90 minutes, which is about the experience how to bring in the community forest-free to contribute to community-based adaptation. So I'm sure many of you have heard about community forest-free or some of you or only a few of you have heard about the approach on the community forest-free. But I'm sure many of you or I would say most of you understand the concept of community-based adaptation. So well, be aware when you talk about community forest-free that refer to the initiative that increase the role of local people in governing and managing forest resources, regardless in terms of the tenure arrangement. So when the local people are managing the forest for their own benefit, so that we call as the community forest-free. And well, I just want to share with you about one-third of the forest globally managed by community and a number of thousand local communities organize their own forest for their own benefit. Because we see these are the real incentive for them to take care of the forest for the global agenda. When you talk about the CBA or community-based adaptation, I assume that many of you recognize that we need to strengthen and enhance the listening of the local communities because they are the one who get affected by the climate change impact. And also they are vulnerable. So meaning that we have to get them engaged in any plan or interventions. And we talked about the expanding the social network, how to help scaling up the intervention to adapt to climate change, and also connecting to other institutions. I'm not talking about the government institution, but how can we strengthen their local institution to prepare and ready to respond to the climate change. And we have to ensure the sustainability of the community-based adaptation in our working areas, meaning that they need to be proactive, not just only responding spontaneously to the climate change impact. Let's give you some kind of snapshot when you talk about community forestry that can contribute to community-based adaptation. We're talking about the capacity development, having clear rise in tenures, because many of the community forests, they issue their land certificate, and that becomes clear tenure arrangement. Improved the effect of people participation and improved the governance, having a regulatory support in terms of the policy and legal instrument, and also responding to local interest. When I say local interest, that not always refer to communities, but also other stakeholders involved in particular landscape or particular areas. And then we apply their adaptive management. So just to give you some kind of snapshot when we try to make the connection between community forest and the CBA. And today we have opportunities to share with all of you the experience one from Bangladesh and the second one from Thailand and the third one from Nepal. So without further ado, I would like to call the first speaker to talk about community-based adaptation through a nature-based solution in climate vulnerable areas, the experience from Bangladesh. It will be presented by Kasi from Friendship NGO. Kasi? Yes. Can you see my presentation? Let me stop my screen sharing. Can you see now? Yes, sir. We can. Okay. This is from Friendship Bangladesh, founded by Runa Khan. We are implementing our programs, integrated approach since 2002, mostly in climate impacted areas. And we are now presenting Friendship and Grove Afrositation Program in South-East Bangladesh, which is community-based adaptation through a nature-based solution in climate vulnerable communities. You know Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to cyclone, storms, erosion, and this is locked by Himalayan North and Bay of Bengal in South. Our program is intentionally to adjust with the poverty and propulsion density and support people to be able to adapt with the situation due to climate change. And we are really invested our efforts for enhanced institutional capacity, at the same term raised environmental awareness. The project is very close to Sundarbongan, largest mangrove forest in the world. And as we already aware, the mangrove forest is stored carbon in large quantities to break wave strength, is act as a barrier against embankment erosion and soil salarination, is protect human life crops and buildings on the coast, and also is great alternative opportunity for livelihood like shrimp, crab, fish, food, fruits, honey. And just for a quick understanding the historical perspective, historical challenges, you know, because of lack of community engagement in plantation and management, the initiative actually in previous league was faced huge disruption. And there are some of plantation actually because of the low density is effective, very low. And as community is not really involved, that's why you know the growing plantation is really difficult. So you see the course destroy new plans. And very recently, Sikronam font reminded us our embankment and housing are not protected. Effective initiative of mangrove afforestation truly needed. And see our project friendship participative approach. The people you see around, they are engaged in plantation in nursery, they are very much from local community for the same community. And we engage them, we train them how to take care of plantation. And how to take part in nursery. And in the below, you see that we created plant zone with the fencing, maintain select local community care tickets we engaged. And at least five different mangrove species we planted to ensure biodiversity and resources. This is in the beginning, we form community group to make them understand why it's important and we build their capacity how to take part in plantation and nursery. And at the same time, we draw the social mapping and getting community to identify the areas to need awareness at the same time to make sure the protection. By monthly meeting taking place in community to keep them updated what's happening and what the challenge remains. And at the same time, we also ensure their alternate livelihood. You see the district agriculture officer conducting training for the alternate livelihood. And in the right-hand top, actually we have meeting, periodic meeting, quarterly meeting with the local government to make sure they are updated and they inform in the below local administrator opening new plantation. The lessons you learn, this is interesting. The new resources provided by planted mangrove forest yet to quantify but promising. One example, I know the cattle goers they are now difficult to get entry in the grazing land. So people can have some grass from the plantation area is abundant so they can take for their cattle. And funding limits the magnitude of plantation. But there is a learning. Nurseries can provide more saplings, replication is possible. The friendship has the largest non-government level of nursery in the country. We need to find ways for new funding, combination of adaptation by and for communities and mitigation at a global level. As you all aware, mangrove stores carbon four times more than tropical forest. So we need new stakeholders to be involved. And this is the actually way forward to take this initiative forward. Our conclusion, institutionalization of the climate adaptation mitigation as a catalyst friendship engage local communities, department of forest, and local government to be part of the whole approach. So that they take ownership and they are part of the growing trees and take care trees beyond the project time. So the government are very much enlightened, very much happy because this is aligned with their national plan of action. This is our at a glance the plantation area. There are many like this. The area actually a bit close to the Sundarbans. So that this is very much aligned with the biodiversity and ecosystem. That's all from my side, the presentation. Thank you so much. Okay, very good. Thanks a lot, Cassie and very concise. And I think I'm sure we can elaborate more in the small group. I think the purpose of having this kind of a case study sharing is just to kick off the discussion, okay? I request to visit www.friendship.ngo to know more. Perfect. Thanks a lot, Danyabat. Okay, so then the next one, the next case will be from Norton of Thailand. And then I will do the share screen. Matt, are you ready to go? Please, I'm ready. Okay, please. But I'm sorry, we still have a new presentation, okay? And then you can cancel it for, thank you. Okay. Yeah, so just go short, short, short sentence and then Guy can help you to translate. Okay. Okay, so well, I am a presenter, Kun Egg. And I want to share with you the experience that we have on the land and natural resource management for climate-based adaptation. This is Nampang model. So just give the general context within the area. We have three ethnic groups working together. We have been settled in the area for more than 100 years now with legal and not legal support. We form a network of 10 villages all together. And then from the photo, you can see that the condition of the area is the mountainous area, covering the areas approximately about 44,500 hectares. And then you can see the map on the left-hand side. You see the map of Thailand and the top corner in the red areas that is the area we are talking about. So this is a diagram showing the, the former land use or the land use in the past. People depend very much on the forested area, but anyhow, well, about 68% covered by monoculture, which is maize. And about 14% covered by upland rice cultivation. And then 7% covered by the paddy field. And the rest covered by the rubber plantation and also some fruit orchard. So that consists of the 3,000 hectares of farmland. So with the land use that we apply in the past, it stimulates the impact of the climate change, especially when we got the landslide in the area, very serious drought, such as flood, a long period of dry season. That become, that we got severe impact from these climate evidence. After they have some kind of discussion and talk among their village representatives, they try to understand the issues and concern and also their ways how to move forward. They identify key fundamental solution that they have to address, how to make the local institution stronger and how to make effective people participation in any management plan or any intervention to fight with the climate change. And also they need support from development agency, including government, civil society, and also other development agency in the area. 01. So in order to make it more… materialized. The Nampang model consists of three kind of a try, let's say like tri-parties. One from the local, one from the development agency, and one from the government. If you look at the diagram here, this is the local government that represents the sub-district administrative office. And then we have to work with the civil society or the local NGO, which is the Northern Farmer Federation, with some support from the, sorry, the Northern Farmer Federation is here, and also the Northern Development Foundation, which is linked with the Hak Muang Na network in the area. Well, I think the success that we have got so far, we have a number of community-based enterprise groups happen in the area. When we talk about community-based enterprise group here, that relate to natural resource management. And then we have fun to initiate more community-based enterprise because they are local people, they don't have a big investment or capital, meaning they're in store into their community-based enterprise development fund to provide some kind of micro-credit or loans for those who would want to initiate the community-based enterprise. Then we have fun to manage our forest and natural resource in the area. So that helps us to maintain the activities under the Nampang model. So the results from Nampang model, it happened that we have clear and strong land-use database. Well, without having the land-use database, it's going to be difficult to manage the landscape scale. Then we have clear forest demarcation and boundary because in the area we have two national parks, and it happened several times in the past that we had conflict with the national park. So it set up some kind of clear boundary demarcation. At the same time changing from monoculture, then we have more kind of a permanent mixed land-use. And then we can return the public land or public forest into the community forest at 1600 hectares back for the public use. And also we promote the, rather than using or applying monoculture, we have mixed crop applying the concept and practice on the agroforestry which is more than 42 hectares already happened in the area with both economic crops and also permanent trees. We also have the scheme for the community water resource management that provides regulatory support on the water and also the good quality of watershed. From the experience that we have in the past few years, we learned that we have to have a clear land-use planning and we have to have a clear tenure arrangement. Otherwise it would be difficult for us to see what we can do and what we cannot do and then it will create a lot of conflict within the area. The second one, we need to improve the effectiveness of people participation in any of the natural resource management intervention. So the core management needs to be more practices by getting local people involved in any decision making. We cannot just wait until the climate change comes in but we have to prepare and then we have to do active planning for the climate change adaptation. So meaning that the local institution must be strong and be mobilized and effective in terms of readiness for the climate change impact. They cannot do that without support from government agencies and also the private sector, so how the private can help them improve their capacities and link with their market opportunities. So these are the key conclusions that they learn, well the local people learn from the Nampang model. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Egg. Thanks a lot for you, Egg, for this experience. Sorry to take time because we have to use double languages. So I mentioned that in the case that any party span who would want to learn more, you can write on the chat box and then our colleagues who are sitting next to Khun Egg will help in terms of translation for the question and answer. So next one, we're going to share the experience that we have in Nepal, which is about trees and bee. Look, you will manage the screen, right? And Ramaji will be presenting from the south of Nepal. Ramaji? Ramaji? Ramaji? Rama? Rama? Hi, Mr. Ron. Sorry, I can't see her on the participants list. Maybe she had issue with the connection. Okay, all right. Yeah, I don't see. Look or Shambhu? Can I ask you to take that role? Shambhu? Sorry, Ron, I'm calling Rama. Okay, so otherwise look can present. Okay. Okay, look. Sorry for the technical issue because Rama is sitting in the countryside. We somehow have low connectivity. Look. So I share on Herbia. Yes. Okay, welcome everyone. So we are sharing this case like we call trees and bees. It is from southern part of Nepal and then where like we applied this community-based adaptation in one of the community forests called Bishnupur Community Forest User Group. So to give you a brief background, it is located on southern part of Nepal, like you can see by this red part. So it is located in province two and then Orion municipality. And then another thing I would like to highlight is this area is located on foothill of geologically fragile Turei Rains. It is the area like which receives like this eluvial which is covered with eluvial and then so which also press this drought and then the area has tropical climate and then it is not so far from international boundary to India. So this case is from Bishnupur Community Forest User Group, which is also a woman-led Community Forest User Group. And then talking about the community, there are 65 households and out of them 26% are poor. And then talking about livelihood of people there, then most of them practice agriculture and then so the significant portion of their livelihood come from agricultural related things like for example this paddy, sugarcane and so on. And then there are like many climate change related issue and then among them most like significant or like that effect most of the local communities are floors and drought means it isn't like drought like desert but it is like during dry period they don't have enough water not only for irrigation but also domestic condoms and talking about this community best time adaptation design then so we implemented the CVA through community forestry process and under leadership of Community Forestry User Group. So when we mentioned about leadership of Community Forest User Group it was led by Executive Committee of Community Forestry User Group which is completely comprised of women's and then we conducted this polar climate challenge, this polar ability assessment following Community Forestry process which is very participatory and then we followed same for adaptation planning and then implemented some so and then as in till by community forestry process then we work with local government and other sectoral government agencies for example forest offices they've got our office G612 condition office and so on and as also like stipulated by community forestry rules and regulation then so there were like targeted targeted program to support livelihood of poor that is where this program got the name trees and bees means to plant trees both in forest and their farmland or practice agroforestry and then have like bee farming to support in their livelihood so there were multiple lessons coming from this exercise and then first one is similar to those came from other cases so this strong institution is a must for community based adaptation and community forestry user group provides that strong institution because it is formally registered group in the district forest office which is called now division forest office and so it has formally status so it is it remains there for forever and then so it has this inclusive leadership so for this case it was completely uh led by woman but in other community first user group also there should be at least 50 percent position should be occupied by woman so similarly like community forest like provides like the resource not only from forest but also like from many different sources right from community and then from other stakeholders to plan and implement this adaptation interventions and similarly because of like huge size this community forestry network facilitated replication and outscaling so I would like to highlight that in Nepal there are more than 30,000 of like community forestry groups there are like many different model of community forestry so there are like so all together there are more than 30,000 so it provides that them using network to replicate this model or to scale out this community based adaptation the second lesson is community forestry through the community based adaptation through community forestry empowers women so as highlighted in as I highlighted that so this was led by woman so and then but I'd like to highlight that it is not only women who work on this it is just they provide leadership so but they work with all other people means other women men and then other marginalized group such as poor and other ethnic minorities so they work with all of them together and then so their engagement in this initiative not only give them confidence but it says to other network so this year their experience that in the beginning it was difficult so in lack of their confidence and then all their stakeholder were also like a hesitating but when they participated in this process and then demonstrated that they can successfully lead this kind of initiative then other partners like started so they are expressed their interest to work with them together and then they also inspired women from neighboring communities and then from other districts as well similarly a third lesson is that the monitoring and evaluation mechanism of community forest are useful also for community based adaptation so as many of you know that community forestry have like kind of different this oversight mechanism so the executive committee of community forestry group they have regular meeting and then for day-to-day operation so they have also like responsibility to make sure things go as planned so they track they keep track of implementation similarly the apex body in community forestry user group is like general assembly so every year the all the member of community forestry user groups sit together and then they reflect they are like progress like less on and then they it's their plan to move further and similarly because they have this formal status and then they receive support from other government and then other agencies so they have strong oversight from other agencies including Divisional Forest Office so there is like check and balance system and in Edison they have to do like this auditing and then submit report to other government agencies and then their supporters so yeah this is all from Vishnupur thank you all okay great thanks a lot look well we are a little bit over the time yeah so I think probably if we can just take one or two question if anyone has but from the chat box I could not see question yet but more on the complementary and as I said earlier I have to say apology for Amaji because she is sitting in the rural setting and then the internet become an issue especially when we get heavy rain our colleague from Nepal just write me an email and chat that she got the heavy rain and then the internet connection become limited okay I cannot see any question yet but you still have for the person you still have opportunities to discuss and probably bring in your own experience so as I said earlier we just need to bring these three case studies just to get off the the discussion and I'm sure you can have more interaction even some question and answer later on okay without any question we have one question from Dawn I see in the chat box a question something like how is the beneficiary scheme in that community okay okay anyone like to respond I can share in a minute from friendship side we truly help community to understand this man group trees if they grows properly they take care and they will find alternate livelihood opportunities I mean like crab, fish, beekeeping these things and some leaves are very much useful for them for roof and for different purposes there are some fruits and they are quite aware of those benefits and they consider Shundarbhan the man group forest is their mother I mean so they resource of everything so that made them convinced to be part of the whole thing in Bangladesh the tree man group tree cutting is forbidden until and unless proper permission so that keeping the trees as it is they find alternate opportunities this is the things they end up most importantly they find man group plantation forest is a safeguard from cyclone and some other things some strong weight that's why we are in progress okay well sorry for those who join this session if you are not in turn to speak may you kindly mute your microphone and then you will not distract the speaker thanks a lot Kasi I see two questions but I have to manage Tom quickly there are two question one from one about Thailand which is about changing the monoculture to mixed agriculture somehow it's quite challenge probably it can tell us a little bit more and the second one how do the community share profit from forest related project I think part of it Kasi already cover a lesson we're in government policy for policy influence okay this is about yeah how to integrate this kind of a local level experience into the policy level uh and also I see Shambu raised the hand uh Shambu you would want to cover some part of it but you have to do very quick Shambu Ji okay so I just would like to say about the benefit sharing mechanism that is happening in Nepal that by laws we have a forest act that says that okay now the 50 percent of the you know total of the benefit generated from the community has to be spent for the you know livelihood improvement of the poor women and disadvantage group that is one and another one is rest of the money 25 percent should go for the forest development and then 25 percent should go for the infrastructure development within the community there is no sharing of benefit to the government that is overall from the community forest product but the you can see the you know some of the picture of the beekeeping you know be you know be hives so so we have identified you know we have they have prioritized the people who should be benefited because most of the people from the poor family are prioritized to get those benefits and they are getting the you know this type of the hives in the subsidized uh no no fully subsidized uh rate for this beekeeping with the training and then not only beekeeping they are getting a lot of other support like for example vegetable gardening and then right cultivation and all these type of things thank you okay okay dania but uh should i said in 10 second that is one line that is the okay 10 second standalone forest project is truly difficult so that friendship integrate the program project with some other programs health education economic opportunities different other projects by friendship implementing the same area and connecting those benefits with the forest project so that people are you know they are getting their different benefits from different angles this is another way of keeping people you know convinced with that project all right thanks a lot for your 10 second all right i think i see number of question okay let's see how can we manage these questions but i would like to continue with the small group uh which uh somehow we i would note that down and then i try to come back to actually mandate the question that you put in the chat box again lope would you like to go for the breakout group i just want to remind you that you may have less minutes in the breakout group lope yes yeah so dear all you just hard experience and experiences and listen on community based representation from the grounds like mr ron just shared that the next part of the session is breakout group discussion we have noticed from the information you saw me data when registering that all of you have very strong knowledge and experiences in cba in that regard the objective of this breakout group discussion is to learn how cba can go further drawing from the lessons from the cases and your experiences for that we'll have three groups as some on this frame first this is institutionalization and financing second general inclusion and third monitoring evaluation and learning as you have guessed correctly the groups will discuss in depth focusing on those topics in about a minute each of you will be randomly sent to one of those breakout groups there will be a facilitator in each of those groups kaji in group one myself in group two and anjo nine in group three the discussion there will be for less than 30 minutes because we already use some of our time and the facilitator in your group will guide you through the process thereafter we will meet again in the plenary where session facilitators will share key points discussed in their breakout groups i hope all of you will actively participate in the discussion in your breakout groups thank you i know that tom is very short especially in a topic that many of us are interested here definitely i apologize for this one finish run right sorry i underestimated tom even though we expand from 60 minutes to 90 minutes but anyhow thanks a lot for all the contribution i observe in the smoke group discussion you have more interaction okay so do we get group one back kasi you got back and then look you got back i haven't seen the oh junei you got back yes yes okay and anyone from group two you got back anyone from group two they all of the room are close now so everyone should be back in the plenary okay thanks we are back beyond yes okay perfect okay well we are not we are running out of time and i would suggest that we ask each group to share with us so group one anyone from group one would want to share with us one can we can share if you allow yeah please do please do okay we have a very vibrant presentation sharing all the brilliant people and in the very beginning they recommended this napal experience that the they feel the induce need to be allowed allowed in the policy by policies and advocacy needed for other countries napal is already exist to allow induce to be part of community forest officially with role clarification number two recommendation came that is the benefit sharing and support in development exists there but they recommend decentralization of decision-making and action needed to promote community forest and three the the community engaging women with leadership role important as we know in most south asia region the men are away from the community for the livelihood part so women role is very important and they are have extraordinary qualities to take care of community forest number four actually important registered as a group organization with government needed to have financial support and assistance there are many spontaneous group at community level cbo the working but they didn't register themselves with the government so it's important five the product is really gaining from the forest harvesting selling market can be one source six national institution prefer to use community group that a channel can be explored there are many national institution they have community level intervention they prefer community group someone okay yeah i just mean okay then seven forest official can support for seedling training and other subsidy for enterprise development that can be part of government act and i mean now many areas even in Bangladesh and many other countries we are having the support from forest official but recommendation came that should be part of the government act and with the audit and other procedures need to be defined and ensured eight forest and community can find some mutually benefiting projects to ensure the finance forest meaning department of forest nine you know try to understanding is the Bangladesh experience from friendship that is engagement of local government community and forest department is really important and 10 one other important point that is awareness generation simultaneously mostly for women needed 11 provision needed to handle our potential forest areas to the community with certain conditions so that they feel ownership i mean the the recommendation actually the certain area is really potential for a frustration or a position need to hand over to the community with the feeling of ownership so that they can involve this in themselves with their rights last but not least that is introduced new technology will learn from West Bengal India that is Kolkata to protect river embankment the uh with along with the man group plantation these ideas came from the group they these are 12 points right that is wonderful okay we come back if anyone like to add more uh comment sure sure okay group two group two anyone would want to share with us group two group two on gender group two so yeah i'd like to share hello yes please you hear me right so yeah i'd like to share my uh screen so give me uh yes right so can you see my screen yes please yes yeah yeah so our group had very interesting discussion on two questions first was about the lessons from the cases that are applicable to the participants context in empowering vulnerable groups and including women right so you can see on the screen that like key points from our discussion that omens are women are interested in participating in the groups and then so yeah that would help them to like bring gender parity and then indicated approach with provide also access to health in terms of women to participate in cba and policy intervention for example that from Nepal is important for a gender inclusion and then next is like women's literacy in uh conserving man groups such as that so because that resource is important to them that's why they're participating conservation of man group and then so the benefit sharing like inclusive benefit sharing again case from Nepal so it is important for gender inclusion so that motivates or encourages women women to participate in community based adaptation so talking about challenges and then suggestions to every address them so yeah so the for example from the case of Bangladesh then most men go to city for work and then omens are left so that is the left like so there is like gap in gender and then so yeah the challenging gender inclusions and then similarly there are like uh right and tender issues which exclude landless people uh and then there is like high poverty and that also add on the challenge and then there like so sometimes there is like inadequate knowledge on gender roles and responsibility and similarly like climate change have differential impact to different group of people so to address those issues so we need to take integrated approach and there so before we design this community based adaptation so we need to have deep knowledge of the context so that what we design or like the approach we take yeah is suitable for that particular context and then when we're engaging with them so we for like gender inclusion so we so working with women only is not enough so we need to engage with families and then beyond them and similarly not just in projects so yeah we have to engage beyond the project as well and then to address issues of for example like landlays and others so means we need to educate a whole spectrum of society not just them and then so our while designing interventional approach so we need to assess differential impact consulting with the groups that are impacted and then finding the best option that support them yeah uh this is all from our group thank you uh wonderful okay i will ask for additional comment later on uh i think better to hear from group three yes yes i will say yes okay can you see can you see my screen yes yes okay so yes our group also we have a very good discussion and also we have a very limited time so that's why uh some participants uh we have uh they are you know funding you know the points so they like to share so in terms of the you know listening so what they have learned from the three cases so share with our friend so good from all three cases community participation and ownership so this is really very good for the community adaptation and also the community have a net capacity and also where and power in managing natural resources so this is also a good learning point for them and also in nipol case so the local community uh dam sign you know stranding you know that block they are lively so this is also good because they don't need to migrate to the other area for their lively so at the last point so someone shared the beneficiary screen so this is a very clear because one participant so he is working with indigenous people so he can practice this beneficiary screen for his contents so and also the time model nampang model so this is a good for one participant because here we can see uh well cooperation and coordination not only with the communities but also the government so this is a you know the good institutional strengthening approach and also the inclusive cooperation so this is also good learning point and also in the case of nipol a woman community groups so they did a great job and also good cooperation with government and diploma organization as well so in thailand case so they deployed the land use database so this is also very useful for monitoring and evaluation and also learning what they need to do in future so in the case of nipol uh they create you know job opportunities you know in their area by using their local resources so this is a you know very uh uh good for the you know the community so these are you know the learning point from our college so okay uh for for for challenges and you know the suggestion so one participant shared that so in quality you know baseline data and also climate related vulnerability assessment gender related vulnerability assessment so in this case so the development organization uh has a you know some issue you know to get the time dedication from the local community so this is you know the challenges for the monitoring and evaluation and also another you know uh college you know share so one cba community based adaptation approach is just only useful for the one specific community so rather than other you know the community so that's why you know the c subject uh later i want to share and also there are you know misunderstanding uh upon uh policy so due to limited asset information because the the local community has limited asset the information from the uh government policy level side so that's why there are some gap between policy and implementation level so this is also one challenge that's related to the MLE and also in the case of Philippines so the local community practice community based monitoring and information sharing mechanism so in this case sometime the local community cannot find a solution how to integrate the community practice perspective community data onto the government platform so this is also you know the one challenges so in terms of such suggestion so nature of a solution should be practice so so to to cover you know all community all junei okay and also you know yes please go ahead okay sorry because internet go ahead okay so uh because of the you know uh the the policy information gap between community and government policy community themselves should try to have a policy information actively not passively and also ngocs or government side should let that community know any update policy and instruction monitoring and evaluation and learning approach should be based on the local contest so rather than you know uh uh copy from the other you know the country or other area and also in the case of bnm so every year and we are roundtable discussion has been organized through inviting the mati stehua including the local community so in this roundtable discussion the local community can share their issues their problem and also they can discuss with the government center so this is also you know the good solution and also the community communicating with the local government should be considered from the government side the community perspective and data and also they should organize a chain basic a man community and also the between government and community as well so to share the information uh each other and also another solution point is uh community knowledge are always you know the neglect in the policy and uh legal framework development so that's why one participant suggested so in the government education and curriculum so community knowledge should be you know acknowledged or recognized so these are you know the suggestion to improve monetary evaluation and so thank you thanks again and all for this summarizing the group now we are little bit running out of time so I will take this moment to summarize summarize the uh session that what we discussed in the last 90 minutes that basically this session was designed based on the learning from the past cba piloting projects that most of the projects where there were the serious issues that uh that how cbs were not able to incorporate the meaningful participation of the vulnerable groups and continuation of the adaptation initiatives after the termination of the experimental supports so this was the main idea of the uh this session so I'm Rajaswari I'm a senior program officer of RECOF that I will summarize this session that the major two questions we raised for this uh session was that how community forest can resolve the challenges to institutionalize and financing cba and how community forest can offer leadership opportunity for women and marginalized groups in the cba so we mainly presented three cases from Bangladesh, Nepal and Thailand which were suggested that how community-based organizations particularly community forest user group can help to strengthen and implementation of cba this is because community forest and climate rakes are co-located must be co-located and the implementation of cba through community forest would provide a strong foundation to secure the finance since it can link adaptation initiatives with local development plan and also the community forest they have their own resources itself to manage the forest so the first case was about the community-based mangood plantations from Bangladesh which highlights how participation of local community would be helpful in plantation management which can contribute to reduce the rakes from natural disasters including storms and cyclones however it is also important to support them for alternative livelihoods livelihoods options to reduce their reliance on the forest resources therefore the cba can in cba initiatives can be more effective with establishing collaboration with local government and the forest offices so this can help to manage stream community-based adaptation measures into the local development plan the second case was from Thailand about the land and natural resource management for adaptation introducing the non-fam model the model is really interesting that because it has developed the tri-party institutions that include the community civil society and the government organizations so these institutions they interact closely with each other and develop the plan so based on that the the institution was successful to establish the number of community-based enterprises which are depend on the natural resources and establishment of the community-based community-based enterprises so in addition also that when we are talking about the establishment of the community-based enterprises then they require the funds so this model is also in help is also successful to establish the community-based enterprises funds as well as the natural resource management funds so they have also provide the some information and have the good initiatives that because this community-based adaptation they did not only implement in the small community level it was in the landscape level so they have prepared the land use database and also the forest demarcation and also community forest development which was promoting the agroforestry and conserving the water resources so so lesson from this non-fam model is that if we have a clear land use planning and tenureize with a strong community-based institutions and have the support from government and private sectors then local community can really fight against climate change and the third case was from Nepal which was about the trees and bees program which is led by women-led Bistukur community forest user groups and this community forest is located in the foothills of the fragile to the regions so in this area floods and water scarcity are the major issues and what the community forest user group did is that they did the adaptation they prepare the adaptation plan following the climate vulnerability assessment with community forest process and the main activities was to rehabilitate the degraded area by planting native species but they leave this native plantation with the beekeeping so from the beekeeping that people can earn the money and also they can rehabilitate the degraded area from the plantations and what we learned from this is that since the community forest user group is the legally recognized group it helped to collaborate with the local municipality and government agencies to receive the support and as well as to upskill the program so and also that this also provides an opportunity to improve common leadership in the community based adaptation and the regular institutional process of the community forest including the general assembly community meeting and the party secretary monitoring and evaluation help to improve the community based interventions so from these cases that we can see that community forest with a strong regulatory support can be an appropriate local institution to implement the community based adaptation from this approach community based adaptation can get benefits since community forest user groups have well-established norms and intensive experience in the forest management they have also the very good group mobilizations with the benefit sharing mechanisms leadership development liability implement and the equitable benefit sharing so implementing community based adaptation through community forest can help to diversify the climate rule of forest beyond the mitigation and also it is also interesting to see that this approach can integrate the community based adaptation with the ecosystem based adaptation so but for this that we need to have a clear land use planning and the new rights with a strong engagement of other stakeholders including the government and civil society which we see in the two cases that we need this try party at arrangements that can really help to sustain the community forest community based adaptation and this approach really helped to many stream community based adaptation into the local development plans so with this remarks I I would like to thank all participants and the presenters for your active participation we would like to also thank IIED friendship and the and also I would like to thank leticia and para for their technical supports we hope that you enjoyed from this session and have enough take home messages to improve the community based adaptation in the future thank you have a good day