After the announcement of EOI for National Working Group for standard development for Sustainable forest management through website, national news paper and individual emails, we got expression of interest of nine individuals throught he emails and from the reccommendation of different experts in a workshop organized by GFN for selection of NWG, fifteen memebers were finalized as National working Group for the National Standard development. The NWG was divided into three chamber- Environmental, Economic and Social where each chamber is comprise of five memebrs and with a overall leader Mr. Krishna Pokhrel (retired govenrmental person). Overall two meetings were held in combined way before having separate meeting of each cahmber to discuss on- how to decide the criteria and in way to move ahead as well as select group leader for each chamber with the clearifying his roles for the meeting. Each group has conducted three meeting in their chamber already to come up with the poitnts related to their issues. The first draft for the national standard will be updated soon in the website.
The list of NWG are
Name List of members in National Working Group (NWG)- Overall Leader- Krishna Pokhrel-9851202028
| Environmental Chamber | |||||
| S.N | Name | Phone number | Gender | Ethnicity | |
| 1 | Kamala Thapa Magar | 9841332288 | camalathapa@gmail.com | F | IPS |
| 2 | Sushil Mainali | 9851009729 | sushil_mainali@hotmail.com | M | |
| 3 | Ramu Subedi | 9851034720 | ramusubedi@gmail.com | M | |
| 4 | Dharma Uprety | 9849049149 | dharam.uprety@gmail.com | M | |
| 5 | Bishnu Acharya | 9857060846 | bpa1971@gmail.com (NFA) | M | |
| Social Chamber | |||||
| S.N | Name | Phone number | Gender | Ethnicity | |
| 1 | Lila Raj Paudyal | 9857620207 | lilapaudyal@gmail.com | M | |
| 2 | Bharati Pathak | 9851113829 | bharatipathak_2006@yahoo.com | F | |
| 3 | Bishnu Gywali | 9851179178 | bishnugyawali@gmail.com | M | |
| 4 | Jograj Giri | 9851141293 | jograj.giri@gmail.com | M | |
| 5 | Ganesh BK | 9841459640 | ganeshbk2@gmail.com | M | Marginalized community |
| Economic Chamber | |||||
| S.N | Name | Phone number | Gender | Ethnicity | |
| 1 | Bhupendra Chaulagain | 9851023866 | bhupendra.chaulagain99@gmail.com | M | |
| 2 | Ratneshwori Shrestha | 9851052470 | ratnaart@live.com | F | Ips |
| 3 | Durga Duttta Regmi | 9851152295 | reegmi@gmail.com | M | |
| 4 | Hari Acharya | 9846045106 | hariacharya1977@gmail.com | F | |
| 5 | Nabin Upaddhya (Tribhuvan University) | 9741149333 | nabinupadhyaya@yahoo.com | M | |