FGM Workshop Background Paper - REDD - VietNam

What needs to monitored/measured in the future?
• Income generated from forest sector of domestic and exporting forest
products.
• Budget allocation and actually transferred funds to the forestry sector based
on the real demand from grass root level, such as the number of forest area
must be protected, the available barred land for forest plantation.
• Number of staff really function well and appropriate with their educated
background and assessment of their performance based on the results of
assigned tasks as well as the feedback from their counterparts at all level.
This measure the accountability of the civil servants downward the local
population and upward to the policy level.
• Training needs assessment should be conducted by the third party in the link
with real demand of forestry sector and the long term education strategy of
forest university and colleges. This assessment also reflects how many
percent of educated student got proper job with their background, and the
number of new staff appointed proper position in the forestry organizations.
• The cost-benefit analysis for the forest production and forest protection if the
budget allocating to the forestry sector delayed.
• Policy analysis for the current mechanism of budgeting process and budget
follows inside and outside forestry sector in order to point out which steps
should be skipped so as to save time and reduce transaction cost.
3.6.3. Forest land management and allocation at provincial and local level
For the field of forest and forest land management, Decision 245/QĐ, enforced by
the Prime Minister in 1998, stated that at the provincial level, “the
chairman/chairwoman of PPC is responsible for reporting to the Prime Minister on
forest and forestry land use, protection and development in the province. DARD is
assigned to assist PPC in carrying out the state management of forest and forest
land. The provincial Department of Forest Protection (FPD) is responsible for
inspecting and monitoring the implementation of laws regarding forest protection and
development within the provincial area. In particular situations, the FPD is
encouraged to cooperate with army and public security forces in the province to
establish a forest patrol, arrest forest violators, and fight against forest fire. The
provincial Department of Land Administration is assigned to help PPC carry out the
state management of forest land” (extracted from Decision 245).
At the provincial level, the PPC is responsible for forest land allocation (FLA) and
issuance of land use right certificates for institutes and organizations, and the district
people’s committee is associated with assignments for individuals, households and
community groups. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment is the
advisory agency in charge of paper work for FLA process.
The Decision 245/QD on the state management of forest and forestry land, which
should be carried out by commune people’s committee (CPC) indicates that:
The chairman/chairwoman of commune people’s committee is responsible for
reporting to the chairman/chairwoman of the district people’s committee about forest
protection and management, and forest land use within the area of its commune.
a) Management of forest and forested land occur within a commune’s area, in
terms of the list of forest owners, forest area and borders, forest land
allocation (FLA) papers, forest protection contracts, rehabilitation and
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