FGM Workshop Background Paper - REDD - VietNam

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particular the government and parliament, in the country need to be convinced of the urgency, relevance/value added and benefits of developing and/or improving monitoring or forest governance. Ownership, commitment, and championship. From the outset, the major national stakeholders in the forest sector should express co-responsibility and active support for the process, which requires that they are able to participate in guiding and benefiting from the process. Ownership and commitment is particularly important in the case of funding of the process by international donors, hence to avoid the risk and impression that it is becoming a donor driven action rather than a process designed to meet nationally identified needs. Existence of national champions to advance FGM is indispensable, both in state agencies and other stakeholders in the sector. Champions are persons who constantly and energetically promote the cause of FGM. Credibility of leadership. The organisation that leads the process must be considered as open, trustworthy, and effective to guide and facilitate the process of monitoring. Stakeholders are likely to forgive gaps or errors in data as long as they believe that the organisations that are in charge of the forest governance monitoring are doing the utmost to give a fair picture of the situation, while striving for improvement and allowing outside oversight. Chapter 3: FOREST GOVERNANCE MONITORING IN VIETNAM – MAIN FINDINGS 3.1. Vietnam policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework: introduction 24
As mentioned above, forest governance, in this background paper, is analyzed in relation with Vietnam National Forestry Development Strategy 2006-2020, particularly its three key programs including • sustainable forest management and development program, • program on forest protection, biodiversity conservation and environmental services development, • forest products processing and trade program and • newly emerging issues, not yet included in the strategy: FLEGT and REDD. However, FLEGT and REDD, in spites of the fact that they have different stating point and approach, both of them aim to sustainably managed forest. See figure 04. Since 2003 Vietnam central governmental agencies have issued 165 legal documents related to forest policy and institution: Resolution: 01 document (The Communist Party Political Bureau); Law: 5 documents; Decree: 39 documents; Decision, directions by Prime Minister: 20 documents; Circular, Decision, Direction by ministries: 105 documents. However, some documents only mention forest policy and institution at one or some articles, or even at some expressions. Only about 140 out of 165 documents issued since 2003 are legally valid. This legal system has made their way into society, creating a legal base and mobilizing resources into forest protection and development, which contributes to continuous increase of forest cover, a stable socio-economic development, poverty reduction and improvement of people’s living in the highland and mountainous areas. However, as mentioned above, this report will focus rather more on finding opportunities of improvements in FGM. Vietnamese system of key legal regulations for forest governance consists of Land Law 2003; Forest Protection and Development Law 2004; decisions, circulars dealing with different areas of or related with forest and forestry. Generally those legal regulations form a system covering all aspects of forest governance that need to be addressed, including: • Forestry land and 3 types of forest; • Forest and forest land rental and allocation; • State forest enterprise restructuring; • Timber harvesting from natural forests; • Conversion of natural forest into rubber plantation and other purposes; • Beneficiary policy; • Forest Protection; • Handling of violations related to forest; • Forest fire prevention and firefighting; • Protection forests and special-use forests; • Forest environment services ; • Forestry finance; • Forest Products Processing and Trade. 25
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ST 19 Area of protection forest wit
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42 Number of forest companies finan
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conversion of forest. ST 67 Number
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91 Number of criminal-violation cas
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for export to EU market. 139 Number
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5.4. Next steps proposed for streng
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Chapter 6: CONCLUSION Due to the in
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• Forest Protection (9); • Hand
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No Name Position Position 1 Dr. Ngu
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1 Dr. Nguyễn Bá Ngãi Vice direc
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