Steps and procedures for forest allocation to local communities---6 II: Establishment of Community Forest Management Organisation...7 Expected results: ---7 Implementation process: ---7
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Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development
Collaboration for Agriciculture and Rural Development
CARD Project 017/06 VIE - Sustainable community-based forest development and management in some high
poverty areas in Bac Kan Province
Community Forest Management
Guidelines
Prepared by
Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry
June 2007 (updated October 2007)
Trang 2Table of Contents
PART A: REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES FOR COMMUNITY
FOREST MANAGEMENT IN VIETNAM 3
PART B: THE CONTENTS OF CARD PROJECT CFM GUIDELINES 6
I: Review of Land Allocation to Community 6
1 Basis and conditions for forest allocation to local communities -6
2 Size and time of forest allocation to local communities -6
3 Steps and procedures for forest allocation to local communities -6
II: Establishment of Community Forest Management Organisation 7
Expected results: -7
Implementation process: -7
III: Development of Community Forest Management Plan 8
1 Preparation -8
2 Assessment of forest resources -8
3 Need assessment of forest products -9
4 Develop annual and 5-year plan -9
5 Proposal for community forest management plan 2007-2012 - 10
IV: Development of Forest Management and Protection Regulations 10
1 Requirements - 10
2 Main contents - 11
3 Process of developing forest protection and development regulations - 11
V: Establishment of Communtiy Forest Management Fund 11
1 Purpose of the community fund for forest protection and development - 11
2 The fund’s financial sources - 12
3 The fund’s operation mechanism - 12
4 Organizational structure and fund management - 12
VI: Monitoring and Evaluation 12
Trang 3PART A: REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES FOR COMMUNITY
FOREST MANAGEMENT IN VIETNAM
Northern mountainous areas of Vietnam are among the poorest regions of the country In these areas, local people live in remote areas with many disadvantages both natural and social Therefore, capacity building for community in forest management is a top priority of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) as well as the Government of Vietnam
Consequently, on November 27th 2006, MARD issued the Decision 106/2006/BNN-PTNT on the acceptance of Community Forest Management (CFM) Guidelines The Guidelines consist of eight chapters and 35 articles
The process of the CFM can be summarized diagrammatically in Figure 1 which shows the relationship between five stages and 13 steps as follows:
• Stage I: Determination of land use rights
- Step 1: Conduct land use planning
- Step 2: Carry out land allocation to community
• Stage II: Development of 5 year CFM plans
- Step 3: Assessment of forest resources
- Step 4: Need assessment of forest products
- Step 5: Develop 5-year CFM plans
- Step 6: Identify forest management practices
- Step 7: Approve 5-year CFM plans
• Stage III: Development of forest management regulations
- Step 8: To develop regulations and put into implementation
• Stage IV: Implementation of CFM
- Step 9: Establish management board
- Step 10: Develop annual CFM plan
- Step 11: Establish forest development fund
- Step 12: Implement CFM plan
• Stage V: Monitoring and Evaluation
- Step 13: Monitoring and Evaluation of CFM
Trang 4Figure 1: Process of government guidelines for community forest management
AUTHORITY LEVEL: PROVINCE, DISTRICT, COMMUNE
I: Determination of land use rights Step 1: Forestry land use planning
Step 2: Land allocation to community
II: Develop 5-year CFM
plans
Step 3:
Assessment of forest
resources
Step 4: Need
assessment of forest products
Step 5: Develop 5-year CFM
plans
Step 6: Identify forest
management practices
Step 7: Approve 5-year CFM
plans
IV: CFM plan
implementation
Step 11: Establish forest
development fund
Step 10: Develop annual CFM
plan
Step 9: Establish management
board
III: Develop forest management
regulations Step 8: Develop regulations
Step 12: Implement CFM plan
V: Monitoring and Evaluation
Step 13: Monitoring and
Evaluation
Villagers Commune's forestry staff
Trang 5Base on the contents of current government CFM guidelines approved under the Decision 106/BNN-PTNT as well as the on ground conditions of this CARD project areas
in Na Ri district, it is necessary to develop a more simple but practical CFM guidelines which suit the local conditions Thai Nguyen University group organized meetings with local people in the four pilot villages to discuss the contents and structure of appropriate CFM guidelines for CARD project purpose A final decision was then jointly made to re-structure and omit some irrelevant parts of the government approved CFM guidelines As
a result, the revised CFM guidelines for CARD project 017/06VIE include 5 stages and 11 steps as follows:
• Stage I: Determination of land use rights
- Step 1: review and carry out land allocation to community
- Step 2: establish CFM management board
• Stage II: Development of 5-year CFM plans
- Step 3: Assessment of forest resources
- Step 4: Need assessment of timber and NTFPs products
- Step 5: Develop 5-year CFM plans
- Step 6: Approve 5-year CFM plans
• Stage III: Development of forest management regulations and fund
- Step 7: develop regulations and put into implementation
- Step 8: develop forest development fund
• Stage IV: Implementation of CFM
- Step 9: develop annual CFM plan
- Step 10: implement CFM plan
• Stage V: Monitoring and Evaluation
- Step 11: Monitoring and Evaluation of CFM
Some changes have been made to make the CFM guideline more realistic and feasible as compared with the current CFM guidelines under the Decision 106/BNN-PTNT:
• Omit step 1 of land use planning because all communes have already completed land use planning for forestry land
• Omit step 6 of identifying the management practices because this activity is included in 5-year plans
• Rearrange step 11 "develop forest development fund" in stage IV into stage III (step 8) for more logical reason
• Rearrange step 7 "approve 5-year CFM plans" in stage II (under the current guidelines of MARD, district will approve the plans but under the revised guidelines for this CARD project, commune has an authority to approve the plans)
Trang 6PART B: THE CONTENTS OF CARD PROJECT CFM GUIDELINES
This part provides description of a sequence of work that is covered within the agreed participatory CFM guidelines as discussed in previous sections
I: Review of Land Allocation to Community
1 Basis and conditions for forest allocation to local communities
The basis is:
• A land-use plan at commune level for forest development and protection plan which has been approved by the district committee; and
• An application form for receiving land from the local community with the signature of village head or local community representative
The conditions are:
• The local community should have the traditional customs, rules and close relations with the forest, and that they have forest management skills, demand and application of forest allocation;
• Forest allocation to the local community must be in line with an approved scheme
of forest development and protection as well as the forest area availability; and
• The forest allocated to the local community is not in dispute status
2 Size and time of forest allocation to local communities
• The forest area allocated to every local community is decided by the district committee, based on local community’s management skills and the commune’s forest area; and
• The duration of forest use is long term for forestry purposes
3 Steps and procedures for forest allocation to local communities
Step 1: Preparation
1 Establish a commune’s forest allocation team including: a group leader who is an agro-forestry staff member in the commune, a deputy leader who is a forestry staff member assigned by the district committee, and members of a team who are land administration staff, statistic staff and heads of hamlets The forest allocation team will directly participate and support the village in carrying out relevant activities
2 Inform all local people in every hamlet about the forest allocation process
3 Prepare materials, relevant equipment and financial resources
Step 2: Information collection and commune’s forest assessment
1 Information collection, analysis and addition of relevant materials: natural conditions, socio-economic situation, and the actual state of forest use and management Commune’s maps (if any) including a map of the actual state of forest resources, a map of land-use scheme and a map of administrative border
2 Primary assessment of the actual state of forests is made prior to forest allocation
In case of the land-use plan and forest protection and development plan of community forest are available, then the team and representatives of villages and other communities will verify the forest status
Step 3: Preparation of documents for land allocation
1) The working team, head of each village and 3-5 household representatives to conduct field surveys to check the location of forests, boundaries, areas, types of forest, and record on map at sacle 1:10 000
2) Working team and village head hold village meetings to obtain feedbacks on:
• Location of forest area to be allocated to community (map)
Trang 7• Area, boundary, forest type, forest state, forest stock
• Management objectives and land use plan after receiving forest land
• Community commitment for forest management
The working team obtain feedback to complete the land allocation documents
Step 4: Preparation of land allocation documents
1) Community’s application for forest allocation needs to be clearly stated: forest position, boundary, area, actual state of forest and use purpose (with signature of the village representatives)
2) Record minutes of community meeting about land use plans with signature of village representative
3) Summary of forest area and forest stock
4) Map of community forest area, 1:10 000 scale
5) Declaration of no conflict in the forest area to be allocated to community
6) Commune’s People Committee is responsible for checking and reviewing the documents, the documents will then be passed on to relevant government departments
Step 5 Approval and making decision of land allocation to community
1) Functional departments have the responsibility of verifying all documents, with field checking if necessary, and submit the documents to district’s people committee for approval
2) District’s People Committee assesses all available information and then makes decisions on forest allocation to the community These decisions will be communicated to commune level and functional departments
3) The Commune’s People Committee will give the decision of forest allocation to the community
4) Forest allocation activities will be carried out in the field
II: Establishment of Community Forest Management Organisation
Expected results:
To be able to identify the number of households participating in community forest management, rights and responsibilities of households, to select group leaders and develop working regulations for the group
Implementation process:
1) Hold village meeting to inform local people about land allocation to community policy, make it clear about rights and responsibilities of people involved in community forest management, and to discuss and answer all questions of villagers This is followed by an identification of the number of people to participate in community forest management After that, community members select CFM management board as follows:
• Identify the duties and responsibilities of group leaders
• Identify criteria for selecting group leaders
• Nominate members for leader positions and vote for the positions
2) Develop working regulations
After selecting group leaders, project staff request group leader to hold meeting to develop working regulations The regulations must consist of the following contents:
• Purpose of the group
• Rights and responsibilities of members
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• Commitments
III: Development of Community Forest Management Plan
1 Preparation
1) Facilitators collect all relevant information and documents such as forest resource map, land allocation map, forest survey document (if any), papers and pens, tapes, etc
2) Select participants: select 6-8 villagers including experienced people, both men and women to participate in development of the plan
2 Assessment of forest resources
1) Based on the land allocation documents and use of maps, facilitators work with villagers to review, classify natural forests (natural forest with high timber volume, low timber, bamboo forest, and bare land) For plantation the classification will be based on age: 1-5 years, 6-10 years and more than 10 years All these forest types will be classified and marked in the map 1/10 000, then made calculations for each
of those parcels The results is put into Table 1:
Table 1 Community forest resource
2) Forest survey:
To identify the number of plot for forest survey:
The minimum survey plot area is 1% of the parcel area Table 2 gives some indicative suggestions about the number of survey plot and parcel area
Table 2 Number of survey plots per parcel area
Conduct survey of tree DBH (D1.3) and height in all plots using rolling tapes, pole and eye observation The results are entered into the following table
Table 3 Survey of upper level trees
For survey of regenerated trees, establish 5 small plots of 20 m2 each within the standard survey plot, then list all regenerated trees which are taller than 1 m and identify their growth quality The results are put into the following table:
Parcel area No of plots (10m x 30m)
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Growth quality
No Tree
species
Height
Notes
For parcels with bamboo forest, classification is made using forest cover criteria, the coverage of more than 70 % and less than 70%
Calculation of forest stock using two factor volume table:
From the results of field survey, forest stock is calculated, plant composition and potential regenerated tree species are identified The results are put into the following tables:
Table 5.Summary of forest stock
Table 6 Summary of regenerated tree stock
%
No Forest type No of trees/ha
Good Medium Poor
Notes
3 Need assessment of forest products
Need assessment of forest products is the basis for making long-term plan for use and management of forest products
Methods: within a community, select 3 households representative of 3 household groups (poor, average, and rich) to interview about the need for forest products (for house construction, fuel wood, and furniture), then calculate the average amount of wood needed for a household per year and finally calculate the total amount of wood needed for all households participated in community forest management The results are put into the following table:
Table 7 Need assessment of forest products
Need (m3) Types of need Unit Volume
Household forest Community forest House building
Propagation
facilities
Furniture
Fuel wood
Fence making
4 Develop annual and 5-year plan
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questions:
What to do? How much? When? How to do? Budget? Who responsible? The results
are summarized in the following tables:
Table 8 Description of activities Forest type Objectives Activities Expected
results
Assessment criteria
Table 9 Implementation plan
Table 10: Estimated fund for activities Activities Volume Cost Annual allocation Responsibility
The results of developing plan process must be reported to community for feedbacks
and approval
5 Proposal for community forest management plan 2007-2012
1 Justification
2 Natural conditions and community characteristics
2.1 Natural conditions
2.2 Community characteristics
3 Purpose of making 5 year plan and objective of forest land use
3.1 Purpose of making plan
3.2 Objective of forest land use
4 Logical framework
5 Implementation plan
6 Budget
7 Impacts
7.1 Social impacts
7.2 Environmental impacts
7.3 Economic impacts
IV: Development of Forest Management and Protection Regulations
1 Requirements
• The regulation must be in accordance with current state law Also, it is suitable for
local traditions and customs
• It discourages bad habits, wrong doings and imposes fines for illegal activities
• The content is clear, simple and easy to implement