FGM Workshop Background Paper - REDD - VietNam

sector at central level and local level; different experts; some key NGOs; and
representatives of private sector in Vietnam, about issues of assessment of FGM in
Vietnam. The documentation analysis and interviews, mainly, were conducted in the
context of the two relations:
• Firstly, the relation between FGM on one side and implementation of the 5
programs of Vietnam Forestry Development Strategy 2006-2020 and their
targets, on the other side. In current circumstances this, perhaps, is an
appropriate way to get the background paper for the workshop, because by
this way the paper can bring what the workshop participants are familiar with,
interested in and confident to join discussions.
• Secondly, FGM is assessed through documentation analysis and interviews in
the context of the FAO FGM framework, but only of the 3 pillars and 6
principles and not 13 components and 77 sub-components.
Recently, Vietnam achieved some very important results in forest sector, especially
in increase of forest cover, forest products export and poverty reduction in
mountainous areas. Forest governance in Vietnam, no doubt, provided considerable
contributions to those achievements. However, this report will rather focus on finding
issues, not for criticism but for opportunities to improve the forest governance
towards sustainably managed forests and sustainable development of Vietnam
forestry. The documentation analysis and the discussions with the key organizations
and persons in this field during preparation of this report therefore were conducted
following this way.
The background paper tried to provide (i) an overall picture of FGM in Vietnam, and
f(ii) propose a set og indicators for strengthening FGM in Vietnam based on criteria:
• Strengthening FGM is to improve quality of FG for implementation of
programs of Vietnam Forestry Development Strategy 2006-2020;
• Strengthening FGM should be appropriate to forestry sector administration
system, in terms of sectoral, multi-sectoral and geographical aspects;
• Strengthening FGM should not require to much additional resources;
• Strengthening FGM should be appropriate to FAO framework so that FGM in
Vietnam can be, to certain extent, similar with global FGM.
Total number of proposed indicators is 150, including 16 areas as bellows:
• General indicators (12);
• Forestry land and 3 types of forest (11);
• Forest and forest land rental and allocation (10);
• State forest enterprise restructuring (21);
• Timber harvesting from natural forests (2);
• Conversion of natural forest into rubber plantation and other purposes (12);
• Beneficiary policy (5);
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