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Bufferzone Management System: Since late 1994, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) has been implementing Park People Programme (PPP) with the financial and technical support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to mitigate park-people conflict through Bufferzone (BZ) development programmes. The programme advocates community based approach to biodiversity conservation. The main development objectives of the Programme are to improve socia-economic condition of the bufferzone communities and to contribute to biodiversity conservation in the protected areas.
In order to ensure better management of Chitwan National Park (CNP) and its BZ resources, a Task Force to develop Park Management Strategy Framework was formed in 1998. The Task Force has prepared a Management plan for CNP and its BZ. The power conferred by the Rule 41 of the Buffer Zone Management Regulation 1996, Government of Nepal has made the following Guideline with the aim of assisting the national parks and reserves for the sustainable protection and conservation, and for the sustainable utilization and conservation of natural resources in the Buffer zone as well as to carry out community development programs with the local people through user, in an effective and uninterrupted manner in the buffer zone. Buffer Zone Management Committee: Buffer Zone Management Committee(BZMC) is an apex community institutaion in teh Buffer Zone, with an elected body of 42 members. The BZMC consists of 37 elected chairpersons of Buffer Zone Users Committees, and the chief warden of the park as the member secretary. The Buffer Zone Management Committee of CNP was formed in 1997(2054 Falgun 25). This Committee elects a chairperson of Bharatpur Municipality use Committee was elected as the first chairperson of the BZMC. In the BZMC organizational structure, UG is the basic grassroots organization, formed at the settlement level (broken down to male and female UGs) which, in turn, can further form functional Organization(FOs) on the basis of specific activities. The UGs in a unit (VDC in case of CNP) constitute a User Committee with nine members representing the unit.
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