Assessment of Sustainability in Community Forests: A Study from Dolakha District, Nepal

Table 8

Sustainability index of Simpani, Bolde Setidevi, and Kalobhir CF.

Criteria	No. of verifier	Sum of scores of verifiers	Average scores of verifiers (c/b)	Weightage to each indicator	SIIC (d/3)	Weighted SIIC (d × e)	OSI (/3)
A	b	c	d	e	f		h
Simpani CF
Extent of forest resources	13	32	2.46	0.15	0.82	0.369	0.61
Economic and social benefits	18	32	1.78	0.2	0.59	0.356
Forest management practices	11	19	1.73	0.25	0.58	0.432
Institutional frame work and governance	18	30	1.67	0.4	0.56	0.667
Bolde Setidevi CF
Extent of forest resources	13	32	2.61	0.15	0.82	0.37	0.67
Economic and social benefits	18	33	1.83	0.2	0.61	0.37
Forest management practices	11	25	2.27	0.25	0.76	0.57
Institutional frame work and governance	18	32	1.77	0.4	0.59	0.71
Kalobhir CF
Extent of forest resources	13	31	2.38	0.15	0.79	0.36	0.58
Economic and social benefits	18	29	1.61	0.2	0.54	0.32
Forest management practices	11	20	1.82	0.25	0.61	0.45
Institutional frame work and governance	18	28	1.56	0.4	0.52	0.62