**2.4.1 Integrated forest management planning process**

In order to meet the policy demand for CFM, an integrated forest management process is being used to develop management plans for forest reserves. The purpose of adopting such a process is to ensure that local communities participate in the planning and decision making process in forest management. Basically the process involves about 10 steps: (i) formation of reserve planning team, (ii) inauguration and training of reserve planning team, (iii) resource assessment and inventories, (iv) socio-economic surveys, (v) information gathering from maps, old plans, reserve settlement agreements, logging history, etc, (vi) preparation of draft management plans, (vii) reserve planning workshop, (viii) review of draft management plan, and (ix) submission of final plan
