ATTACHMENT 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Community based forest management and development on some poorest areas in Bac Kan province Report of Regional Workshop on
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Community based forest management and development on some poorest areas
in Bac Kan province
Report of Regional Workshop on Experience sharing in comminty forest management
Na Ri district, Bac Kan province
Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and
Forestry
June 2009
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The purpose of the project is to enhance capacity for the ethnic minority in four pilot areas in Van Minh, Lang San, Kim Hy sanctuary, Na Ri district Bac Kan province in field of forest management The purpose of the project will get success through strenthening the capacity of the local governments at all levels in planning land use, land allocation participatory Within these fields, extention services are important part in community based-forest management These services include activities to strengthen capacity at the community level and other levels of government; and provide technical and institutional support The project will also provide support
to improve livelihood of poor people, especially for ethnic minorities to have equal opportunity access to forest land, better manage their resources as well as benefit from this resource This new method will focus on support to prevent degeneration of forest land, development and conservation of forest resources New information, experience and training methods getting from other pilot communities will not only be shared to some others in the district, but to other suitable area in Bac Kan province, and other ones through the partners, popularizing and media.Therefore, the workshop on ‘’sharing experience in community forest management’’ was held in Na Ri district, Bac Kan province The purpose of the workshop is to report progress and results gained from the community forest management project, CARD program, learn and share experiences with other community forest management in Vietnam
2 Participants
The workshop attracted the participation of 71 members from various projects and organizations:
1 CARD project 017/VIE06, Na Ri- Bac Kan
2 ‘‘Enhance capacity in community forest management project in Cho Don- Bac Kan’’, CARE organization in Vietnam
3 ‘‘watershed forest management project’’ in Thanh Hoa province, CARE organization in Vietnam
4 ‘‘Culture identity and Natural resource management organization’’- CIRUM, Lang Son province
5 IFAD, International fund for Agriculture development
6 ‘‘Minor support for the management and development of tropical forest project’’ Dong Hy- Thai Nguyen
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8 People community in Na Ri district
9 Technical departments in Na Ri district
10.Bac Kan TV and Newspapers
List of participants is in Appendix 2
3 Workshop program is in Appendix 1 The workshop also had the participation of four pilot
areas in CFM, CARD program with these subjects:
• Experience in tranferring community forest land
• Plan in community forest management
• Community forest fund for development
• Agroforestry model
• Nursery garden for communes and villages
4 The contents of the workshop
4.1 Introducing main activities and results from community forest management project of the groups taking part in the workshop
4.2 Questions and answers about the experience in community forest management of the participants and involved groups
4.3 Visit field model of community forest management by CARD project
4.1 Introducing main activities and results from community forest management projects in the northern areas of Vietnam
The involved groups briefly presented activities, together with the results on community forest management These contents were presented in detail of the involved groups (Powerpoint presentations)
4.2 Questions and answers
Questions and answers about the experience in community forest management of the participants and involved groups are summarized below
Mr Pham Minh Khoi (IFAD) asked:
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ỔỔcommunity fundỖỖ and the regulations for ỔỔnursery gardenỖỖ of CARD project?
2 Is there any rewarding policy for the participants?
đàm Chắ Cường, Khuổi Liềng commune answered:
1 PeopleỖs committee of village is the body to approve the regulations
2 There are currently no rewarding policies for the participants, but there is fine for the the ones breaking the rules There should be reward to make better activities
Mrs Trần Thị Hoà Ờ CIRUM organization asked:
1 Does community fund of CARD project have limited time for the loan?
2 Who can exploit community forest of CARD project?
3 Who can get technology through training courses of CARD project? How many percent for women and for men?
Mr Tran Van Nam, To Dooc answered:
1 The period of loan for the community forest fund is from six or twelve months, depending
on the number of people in the village Six months for the village with many people, and twelve months for less people
2 All members participating in community forest management project will participate in exploitation of community forest to serve the purpose of housing, and breeding farms, but must contribute 20% of the product value to community forest development fund
3 All members participating in training courses have understood the technology, 60% of women and 40% of men
Mr Chử Ngọc Oánh - CARE international organization in Viet Nam asked:
How to determine the amount of loan available from community forest development fund in villages?
Mrs Thiểm, Nà Mực commune answerd:
After having made a yearly planning activity and determined the amount needed for these activities, the balance will be supplied as a loan to the needs of the households
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Mr Lục Văn Dung Ờ community forest management board, Văn Minh village, CARD project questioned:
1 Is there any evidence to support the land belonging to community in project village?
2 Do the doctors of traditional herbal medicine and forest management board need to have any officeỖs confirmation paper for purchasing when finding someone who takes medicinal plants and wood in community forest?
Mr Nguyễn Minh Tài - member of traditional medicine herbs, CIRUM organization answered:
1 Community forest is certified by district and village administration through a forest ownership certification Therefore, villageỖs community and doctors of traditional medicine herbs will keep and manage that communtity forest as ownership
2 The doctors of traditional medicine will report to villageỖs administration and forest rangers for purchasing those medicinal plants and wood taken illegally from community forest
Mr đàm Văn Sơn, Bản Sảng villageỜLạng San commune - CARD project asked:
The area of community forest will decrease when being shared among new households Does community forest have its own sustainability?
Mr Nguyễn Minh Tài, member of traditional herbal medicine, Lạng Sơn province answered: Each household in village possesses no more than 30 ha of forest land during the process of adjusting the area of forest A conservative area will be kept in each community forest for the next generation, so there is little effect to community forest, and ensure sustainability
Questions and Answers about the experience in community forest management of CEFM project, Chợ đồn- Bắc Kạn
Mr Nong Hoang Ky- Chairman of Na Ri district asked:
1 Why didnỖt CEFM project delivery forest ownership certification to Chợ đồn - Bắc Kạn?
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Mr Nguyễn Văn Mạn – Director of CEFM project answered:
1 Community forest, which is mostly rocky forest, and located far away Villagers have large forest land, about 20 ha per household Therefore, the people have no interest in the community forest, and it is impossible to delivery forest ownership certification to community
2 There is a little income of each household compared with the time CEFM project started
Dr Nguyễn Văn Ngãi- Director of Bac Kan Agriculture and Rural Development Department asked:
What is the process of conducting surveys of forest resources?
Mr Nguyễn Văn Mạn – director of CEFM project answered
Standard cell is used to conduct survey of forest resources What kinds of trees in each cell, and what kinds of non-timber are there in each cell
Questions and answers about the experience in community forest management of ‘‘tropical forest management project’’ in Ban Nac commune, Vo Nhai district, NORFOR orgnization
Mr ðặng Minh Khôi – IFAD project asked
1 How many poor households are there before and after the implementation of the project? How has the people’s life changed?
2 Forests owned by individuals are grouped to make community forests However, each of them still belongs to different owners When the owners want to exploit the forests, the owners that have greater forest land want to get their benefit that is in direct propotion to their forest land How can this matter be solved?
Mrs Trần Thị Thu Hà – NORFOR organization answered:
1 Before the implementation of the project, the rate of poor households is 70-80%, and the people only cultivated once in a year When the project finished by 2006, people have cultivated two or three times a year, eliminated hunger and reduced poverty by 30% of poor
Trang 7households Average annual productivity has increased by three to five times People have realized the importance of forest, and continued to invest to forest planning when they have capital from exploitation
2 When contributed individual forest to community forest, the forest area of each household
is different However, people living in commune have set up a common regulation for rate of interest and contribution to community fund from forest exploitation that ensures fairness for all
Mrs Nguyễn Thị Nghĩa – Vice manager of Bac Kan Agro-forestry extention center asked:
What is the biggest success of the project?
Mrs Trần Thị Thu Hà – NORFOR organization answered:
The biggest success of the pjoject is to set up centralized production of materials, change the way people think about the importance of forest, and more wealthy from forest as well
Questions and Answers about the experience in community forest management of PWM project- watershed forest management in Bá Thước, Thanh Hoá
Mrs Nguyễn Thị Tuyết – CIRUM organization asked:
1 What are the benefit and support of villages joining to the project?
2 What is the sustainability of the forest for the households with individual forest land?
Mr Chử Ngọc Oánh answered:
1 Communes in upper lands that plant and protect the forests are provided with labor force
by the lower-land people The lower communes get benefit from water for household use and agricultural production
2 In the project area, forest will be protected better because of a clear boundary among the households
Mr Hoàng Văn Bảo – director of Na Rì forest ranger department asked:
What methods should be used to inform the residents of their communes' benefits so that they can have suggestions and recommendations for the project?
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Method to be used is PRA- Participatory rural appraisal
4.3 Visit to field model of community forest management by CARD
Participants visited community nursery garden of Na Muc village which was facilitated
by head of the village Mr Luyen Seedlings of two species, acacia and manglietia, were under propagation and would soon be planted out Some participants from outside CARD project communes were interested to buy some seedlings but were told that all the seedlings had been reserved for members within Na Muc village Participants were impressed with the nursery which was clean and well maintained Mr Khongsack also gave explaination to the participants about a better quality in seedlings using seed imported from CSIRO, Australia
Participants then visited an agroforestry model on private household land which belonged
to Mr Luc Van Huy With the area of 1 ha, corn and soybean are grown together with forest trees (acacia and manglietia) Corn and soybean were about 0.5-1 m in height and blooming with young fruits Some visiting members in the visiting group also offered advices on caring young trees in nusery garden as well as other activities
Mr Tran Van Dien of Thai Nguyen University also introduced to the visiting group about the quality of DT22 soybean, and NK54 corn growing in the agroforestry model
5 Conclusions
Securing “Red Book” for community forest land is the highlight and attracted wide discussion from other organizations and projects The activities in community forest management, fund for community forest development, nusery garden models, agroforestry models are highly appreciated However, there should be plan to maintain these activities, especially the solution for the disruption of status seedling by cattle grazing freely CARD project should learn some experience from other projects and organization to improve implementation All the results from the workshop will be shown in Bac Kan T.V and newspaper, as well as in Na Ri’s so that people living in these areas are informed of the workshop and activities from CARD project
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agencies
from Na Ri
CARD project's staff
8:30
Expected outputs from the workshop
Director of Bac Kan DARD
8:30 -
8:45
A review of CARD project on implementation of CFM in Van Minh and Lang San - Na Ri - Bac Kan
CARD project (Ha)
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Reprecsentatives
of 4 villages (To dooc, Khuoi lieng, Na muc, Ban sang)
15:00 -
16:00
Group discussions:
- Opportunities/challenges in implementation of CFM plan in other region
- Recommendation/solutions for the in CFM plan implementation
- Policy recommendations to relevant government agencies on CFM's policies
Remarks the first day workshop
Ngày 29/5 Visit the CFM model of CARD
project in Na Muc or in to dooc
Participants
Trang 12Annex 2: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ATTEDNING THE REGIONAL WORKSHOP
"SHARING EXPERIENCES AND LESSON LEARNT IN COMMUNITY FOREST
MANAGEMENT"
AT NA Ri- BAC KAN 28-29 MAY 2009 STT Họ và tên địa chỉ/đơn vị công tác
1 Khongsack CARD project Manager - CISRO
2 Ma Quang Huy Bac Kan Television Agency
3 Hà đức Sơn Bac Kan Television Agency
4 Trần Thị Hoà Cultural Identity and Resource Upland Use Management
-CIRUM (NGO)
5 Chi Tuyết Cultural Identity and Resource Upland Use Management
-CIRUM (NGO)
6 đặng Minh Tài Customary law based forest management project - Lang Sơn
7 Hà Văn Khang Customary law based forest management project - Lang Sơn
8 Trịnh Văn Mạnh Customary law based forest management project - Lang Sơn
9 Triệu đức Văn Department of Forestry - Bac Kan DARD
10 Trần Thị Thu Hà TUAF
11 Trần Văn điền TUAF
12 Hà Thị Hoà TUAF
13 Nguyễn Văn Khuyến TUAF
14 Nguyễn Văn Mạn CEFM project - CARE international
15 Lê Huy Oánh PWMP project - CARE international
16 Phạm đình Thiều CARE International in Vietnam
17 Hoàng Văn Giáp Manager of IFAD project - Bac Kan
18 Phạm Văn Khôi Forestry advisor of IFAD project
19 đặng Hoàng Hà Livelihood advisor of IFAD project
20 Hoàng Văn Hải Vice Director of Bac Kan FPD
21 đinh Tiến Toàn Technical Department of Bac Kan FPD
22 Lê xuân Diệu Department of Forest protection and Management of Bac Kan
23 Nguyễn đức Hải Technical Department of Bac Kan FPD
24 Trần Văn đáng Technical Department of Bac Kan FPD
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28 Nguyễn Bá Ngãi Direcror of DARD - Bac Kan
29 Lê Cẩm Long Head of Administration office of DARD Bac Kan
30 Phan Thị Phú Bac Kan Newspapers
31 Nông Xuân Kỳ Chairman of People's Committee of Na Ri District
32 Nông Văn Dũng Head of Administration office of People's Committee of Na Ri
District
33 Nông Danh Hiển Vice Head of Administration office of People's Committee of
Na Ri District
34 Hà đức Bảo Head of Lâm Na Ri FPD
35 Ngô Quang Nam Technical staff of Na Ri FPD
36 Nguyễn đức Chức Technical staff of Kim Hy Nature Reserve
37 Vũ đức Thuận Technical staff of Kim Hy Nature Reserve
38 Phan Văn Thắng Technical staff of Kim Hy Nature Reserve
39 Hoàng đức Tâm Chairman of People's Committee of Lang San commune
40 Hoàng đức Quyết Cadastral officer of Lang San commune
41 Lưu Thị Mến Extension worker of Lang San commune
42 đàm Văn Huấn Vice Chairman of Lang San commune
43 Trần Văn Nam Head of To Dooc village - Lạng San
44 Trần văn Chung Villager of To Dooc village - Lạng San
45 Hoàng Văn Dắnh Villager of To Dooc village - Lạng San
46 Hà Thị Nguyên Villager of To Dooc village - Lạng San
47 Trần văn Mạnh Villager of To Dooc village - Lạng San
48 Hoàng Văn Vỵ Villager of Ban Sang village - Lạng San
49 Hoàng Văn Hướng Villager of Ban Sang village - Lạng San
50 đàm Văn Sơn Villager of Ban Sang village - Lạng San