FGM Workshop Background Paper - REDD - VietNam

district and commune staff members had few chances to get informed about
these policies and papers. As a consequence, staff at district levels (District
Department of Natural Resources and Environment, District Department of
Agriculture and Rural Development), and staff at commune levels (vicechairman/chairwoman
in charge of agriculture and forestry field) had limited
information about forest-relating policies. This constraint was due to the fact
that there was not a sufficient number of staff carrying out forestry activities at
DPC. More over, DPC is merely in charge of state management, and not
assigning forestry activities. At the district level, the Forest Protection Section
was responsible for carrying out the law on forest protection, while forest
companies conducted forest trade activities, and forest protection and
management boards took the roles of forest protection and management.
• At provincial and local level, the following information was gathered.
Implementation of forest policies faced a number of challenges because there
were several constraints in the current law system. For instance, if a staff
member of a forest company discovered illegal logging during his forest
patrol, the only action he could take was to inform the forest protection and
security forces in the area. However, the forest protection and security forces
could not always make themselves available when needed. Due to limited
budget availability, many forest companies could not involve relevant
organizations/parties in fighting against violating cases. This problem also
happened at the commune level because the CPC did not have a budget for
these types of activities. Consequently, both forest protection enforcement
and the development law created limited impacts at the commune and
community levels.
What is monitored/ measured already?
• Number of forest-destroy cases.
• Area of destroyed forest.
• Volume/value of seized timber.
• Number of illegal timber transportation cases.
• Volume/value of illegal-transported timber seized.
What needs to monitored/measured in the future?
• Number of cases against people on duty.
• Number of forest-destroy cases.
• Area of destroyed forest.
• Volume/value of seized timber.
• Value of illegal-logging means seized.
• Number of illegal timber transportation cases.
• Volume/value of illegal-transported timber seized.
• Value ofillegal-timber-transporting means seized.
• Number of criminal-violation cases.
• Number of contriver-found violations.
• Number of violation punishments that violators do not follow.
3.3.3. Forest fire prevention and fire fighting
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