iarjalsIARJALSIARJALS2708-510410.47310/iarjals.2021.v02i01.018Contemporary Challenges and Solutions for Equity and Social Inclusion in Community Forestry, Nepal: A ReviewParbatRajThaniPrashidKandelYogi Naraharinath Study and Research Academy, Surkhet, 21700, NepalKathmandu Forestry College, Kathmandu, 1276, NepalCommunity forestry is considered one of the successful programs in terms of natural resource regulation and protection in Nepal. It was started with the focus on the forest conservation through peoples’ participation and also satisfying their basic forest product’s needs. Later on, its limitation of tasks expanded and started working also on many cross cutting issues including institutional sustainability, good governance, sustainable livelihood, community development, democratic civic engagement and equity aspects of forest management (e.g. distribution of costs and benefits, access to decision-making). This review paper was designed to contemplate constraints and challenges on the social inclusion and equity aspect of forest management in community forestry and find out solution collectively. Many related peer reviewed research articles and government documents were taken into account and the result analysis was done based on the existing literatures. The study showed that there is not satisfactory inclusion of women, poor, lower caste and other disadvantage groups in community forestry in terms of distribution of costs and benefits and access to decision-making as a result of weak implementation of gender equality and social inclusion policies, weak institutional structure and capacity, inadequate awareness, inadequacy of gender disaggregated data, insufficient inclusion of gender and social inclusion criteria in monitoring and evaluation or in budgeting programmes and so on. To cope with these issues, fully implementation of policy provisions; formulation of strategies based on national debate, past research and their implementation; continuation of empowerment, formal and informal education through different ways at local level to improve literacy and awareness about rights of women and excluded groups; putting some preconditions on development assistance; strengthening of local institution to tackle equity and social inclusion; provision of adequate fund  and regular assessment of policy, implementation and the revision might be helpful.