FGM Workshop Background Paper - REDD - VietNam

What needs to monitored/measured in the future?
• Number of needs assessments executed before new policy.
• Number of initiatives on policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework to-
MARD proposed by FSSP.
• Number of initiatives on policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework to-
MARD proposed by FSSP considered by MARD.
• Number of initiatives on policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework to-
MARD proposed by Forestry Regional Network, FSSP.
• Number of initiatives on policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework to-
MARD proposed by Forestry Regional Network, FSSP considered by MARD.
• Number of initiatives on policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework to-
MARD proposed by organizations, individuals (including civil society).
• Number of initiatives on policy, legal, institutional and regulatory framework to-
MARD proposed by organizations, individuals (including civil society),
considered by MARD.
• Number of monitoring implementation reports.
• Number of reports on consultations after issuance of new or revised policy,
legal, institutional and regulatory framework.
3.5.3. Planning and decision making at provincial and local level
The inventory for forest for management and protection is generally prepared by
provincial agencies, while the preparation of both a short and medium-term plan is
assigned to authorized organizations at district and commune levels based on the
provincial master plan.
Forest land planning and use specification were clearly indicated in the Land Law
2003, Decree 181/NĐ-CP, and Circular 30 issued by the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment (MONRE).
ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED:
• The development of an inventory for forest protection and management
mainly depended on professional organizations and statistics data, rarely
involving local people and organizations at district and commune levels. As a
consequence, the feasibility of a forest plan was limited. Concerning the
decision making of how to record the annual volume of logged timber and
changing of land-use purposes, national and provincial agencies are the ones
who formulate and make every decision with little consultation from district
and commune-level organizations.
• The cooperation among in-charge agencies in the vertical axis (from
provincial to district and commune levels) and among ones in horizontal axis
(between professional departments at the same level as provincial and
district) is not always good. This was proved when a large area of forest land
in the Central Highlands was changed into rubber plantations, which was not
indicated in the forest sector’s plan for the 2006-2010 period. The interviews
with the leaders of the provincial forest sector (during the review meeting of
the Central Highlands forestry network on 9 September 2011) indicated that
the decision to change the natural poor forests into rubber plantations was
made in haste, and thus did not receive support from the grass root level.
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