‘People’s Participation’ in community development is a much discussed issue. The high and rapidly growing population in Bangladesh is placing great strain on all resources. Increasing people’s voice and influence in the social forestry policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective...

‘People’s Participation’ in community development is a much discussed issue. The high and rapidly growing population in Bangladesh is placing great strain on all resources. Increasing people’s voice and influence in the social forestry policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective...

People’s participation in the Social Forestry (SF) policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective way of improving the condition of the forest sector by increasing access to services of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. But 'patron-client relations' is a dominant phenomenon of...