Current situation and solutions for community forest management in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam
Community forest management has been officially recognized more clearly in Viet Nam's new Forest Law of 2017, so to promote community forest management, it is necessary to assess the past process and put it into new context to provide appropriate technical and policy recommendations. The fields of community forest management assessment were in Tul and Hang Nam villages, where M'Nong indigenous ethnic minorities live, in the Central Highlands, Viet Nam. Natural forests were allocated to these communities since 2002. Accordingly, Tul community had the support of a rural development project in the period of 2005-2009 to improve its capacity for management of community forests, while the Hang Nam community did not have any significant support from outside. Participatory research methods were applied to evaluate the results and effectiveness of community forest management. The results showed that: 1) The community forest model that was granted forest use rights without any support and advice to implement community forest management (In the case of Hang Nam community), achieved the rates according to the following: organizing 13%, technical 23%, economic 33%, social: 34% and environmental: 71% and on average 35% of all objectives were met; 2) The community forest model that was granted the forest use rights and received the supports for capacity building through a 4-year project (In the case of Tul community), achieved the rates according to the following: organizing 33%; technical 36%, economic 20%, social: 77% and environmental: 77% and on average 50% of all objectives were met. In order to consolidate and develop community forest management, it is necessary to synchronously implement the following solutions: 1) Strengthen the organization and management capacity for the communities; 2) Improve community livelihoods from forest management; 3) There is a need of more appropriate policies for community forest management; 4) Apply measures to rehabilitate degraded forests. Keywords: community forestry, evaluation of forest management, solutions for community forestry ID: 3472958
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| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC1365EN http://www.fao.org/3/cc1365en/cc1365en.pdf |
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| Summary: | Community forest management has been officially recognized more clearly in Viet Nam's new Forest Law of 2017, so to promote community forest management, it is necessary to assess the past process and put it into new context to provide appropriate technical and policy recommendations. The fields of community forest management assessment were in Tul and Hang Nam villages, where M'Nong indigenous ethnic minorities live, in the Central Highlands, Viet Nam. Natural forests were allocated to these communities since 2002. Accordingly, Tul community had the support of a rural development project in the period of 2005-2009 to improve its capacity for management of community forests, while the Hang Nam community did not have any significant support from outside. Participatory research methods were applied to evaluate the results and effectiveness of community forest management. The results showed that: 1) The community forest model that was granted forest use rights without any support and advice to implement community forest management (In the case of Hang Nam community), achieved the rates according to the following: organizing 13%, technical 23%, economic 33%, social: 34% and environmental: 71% and on average 35% of all objectives were met; 2) The community forest model that was granted the forest use rights and received the supports for capacity building through a 4-year project (In the case of Tul community), achieved the rates according to the following: organizing 33%; technical 36%, economic 20%, social: 77% and environmental: 77% and on average 50% of all objectives were met. In order to consolidate and develop community forest management, it is necessary to synchronously implement the following solutions: 1) Strengthen the organization and management capacity for the communities; 2) Improve community livelihoods from forest management; 3) There is a need of more appropriate policies for community forest management; 4) Apply measures to rehabilitate degraded forests.
Keywords: community forestry, evaluation of forest management, solutions for community forestry
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