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8.2.2.3 Stage two: Assessment and management planning.This stage consists of three phases; First conduct a land use plan exercise to identifyand agree on boundaries, then to carry out a Participatory Forest Resource Appraisal(PFRA), and lastly to develop a village management plan and village by-laws.Although when we were in the field none of our villages had moved onto stage two ofthe implementation process they were just about to. For instance in Masugu they weregetting ready to start the land use planning exercise when we left. Therefore we canassume that some work has at present been done in this regard.Table 55: Land use planning exercise under the projectPeople in the villages will be the ones to make the land use plan according to their knowledge andwishes; what to be forest land, agricultural land, land for settlement and land for grazing. During thisprocess they will receive advice from a district land use planning team. Through such an exercise amap is made, where GPS coordination‟s are taken among several other things. When this is done, morethan 10 experts from different offices work in each village for about two weeks. Among others, suchexperts could be officers from the water department or officers from the land department dealing withboundaries. Through land use planning the inhabitants would at last be provided titles/deeds to theirland.Source: (Local resource person 2010)At first, a land use plan exercises would be carried out in two villages at the time, andafter completion, the villages would directly start with the next phase, the PFRA 47 .This phase measures and assesses the forest in question and is conducted togetherwith the VNRC. Here experts from the project will come in and do carbonmeasurements for later verification measures needed for REDD. This stage involvesand requires consultations with all stakeholders and natural resource users boththrough land planning and PFRA (Ibid.).TFCG saw it as important that all stakeholders were included: the timber dealers, thehunters, the charcoal producers, the farmers, the pastoralists etc. All must be involvedin discussions and also in the delegation of costs and benefits. If not, user conflictsmight arise. Such types of conflicts were, as previously mentioned, already present inboth Masugu and Nyali, but especially in Masugu. Here it seemed like the conflict47 In an overlapping fashion, two new villages would start up phase 1 after two other villages havecompleted their land use plan.239