The review process for assessing community based forestmanagement (CBFM) impactsCommunity based forest managements were designed to delivermultiple benefits. Sustainable development goals, in its localizedversion, could capture these potentially diverse benefits generatedfrom CBFM schemes. The following five SDGs were used for theimpact analysis because of their specific relevance to theobjectives of CBFMs: Goal 1, poverty reduction; Goal 2, foodsecurity; Goal 3, well-being; Goal 13, climate change; and Goal15, forest and biodiversity conservation. Sustainable developmentgoals were chosen for the impact analysis for two main reasons:(1) they are standardized, globally accepted monitoring protocolsfor assessing development progresses at the country level; and (2)numerous elements of the SDGs were already targets ofdevelopment ambitions for the case study countries.