This briefing paper provides a case study of the Sewacajua Authorised Forest Community, focusing on the establishment and governance Of the community forest as well as the distribution of benefits from the forest, Conducted nearly eight years after the revision Of the Community Rights Law regulations in 2017, the -case study serves a follow-up to an earlier briefing paper that eexamined the same issues when the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and the community first signed the Community Forest Ma nagementAgreement(CFMA) in 2017.