Houaphanh Village Bamboo Forests (BNDA)
Sop Bao (Houaphanh) · North · Laos
Sop Bao district allocated about 4,950 hectares of bamboo forest to 29 villages (2018 figure). In each, a committee manages it under an annual plan approved by the district, and producer groups sell shoots and basketry. This gave rise to BNDA, which Gret presents as Houaphanh's first civil society organisation; the 2024-2027 phase adds 21 villages. Tensions: fees in some villages diverted buyers to others, investors and monocultures press in, and only the implementer and a funder report on it.
- Led by
- The villages with their bamboo committees and, today, the BNDA association; Gret and the agriculture and forestry offices, funded by AFD, Swiss cooperation, Fondation Ensemble and Oxfam
- Status
- Active
- Participation
- Co-governed
- Visitable
- No, it is a programme
- Website
- gret.org/en/projet/empowering-communities-to-manage-bamboo-forests ↗
- Contact
- No public contact on record
- Last reviewed
- 1 October 2026
Verification
Partially verified
This place has at least one source on record and awaits a second one for contrast. Full verification will arrive in the review phase of the atlas.
- Verified two sources including a primary one, or first-hand knowledge of the place
- Partial one source on record
- Unverified starting knowledge, sources pending
Sources
- Ficha del proyecto de gestión comunitaria de los bosques de bambú ↗ · primary source · consulted on 1 October 2026 · Gret
- Ficha del proyecto de transformación del bambú, con la evaluación de mayo de 2018 ↗ · primary source · consulted on 1 October 2026 · Fondation Ensemble