{"id":2956,"date":"2018-08-28T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:08:05","slug":"assessing-forest-governance-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/assessing-forest-governance-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Forest Governance in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viet Nam remains home to great numbers of vulnerable and poor people, especially among the rural population and ethnic minorities\u00a0&#8211; many of whom depend on forest resources. These forests face numerous pressures including illegal logging, infrastructure\u00a0development and agricultural expansion. RECOFTC \u2013 The Center for People and Forests, working with WWF and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PanNature\/\">PanNature<\/a> as\u00a0part of the European Union-funded Voices for the Mekong Forests (V4MF) project, is seeking to better understand the governance\u00a0challenges and opportunities in Viet Nam\u2019s forestry sector, as well as putting forward a programme to address these through the\u00a0empowerment of non-state actors (NSAs).<\/p>\n<p>To this end, a participatory forest governance assessment was carried out in late 2017\u00a0and early 2018. The findings, outlined in this brief, reflect the participants\u2019 perception that forest governance in Viet Nam is facing\u00a0many challenges, in particular in relation to stakeholder engagement processes, but also that windows of opportunities exist.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0project partners will work with various stakeholders, particularly NSAs including civil society, to implement a programme to address\u00a0the challenges and opportunities identified.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/280818_forestgovernace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/280818_forestgovernace.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/280818_forestgovernace-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/280818_forestgovernace-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/280818_V4MF_PolicyBrief_ForestGovernance.pdf\"><strong>PDF<\/strong><\/a> or Read online below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"issuuembed\" style=\"width: 525px; height: 371px;\" data-configid=\"3696043\/64104613\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #c3f7ab;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">The Voices for Mekong Forests (V4MF) is a 5-year project funded by the European Union that aims to\u00a0strengthen the voices of non-state actors (NSA) to improve the governance of the forests in the Mekong region,\u00a0particularly in the context of FLEGT-VPA and REDD+ processes. V4MF is implemented by RECOFTC \u2013 The Center\u00a0for People and Forests with eight regional and national partners in three trans-boundary landscapes across\u00a0the five Mekong countries. In Vietnam, PanNature is local partner in this project.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viet Nam remains home to great numbers of vulnerable and poor people, especially among the rural population and ethnic minorities\u00a0&#8211; many of whom depend on forest resources. These forests face numerous pressures including illegal logging, infrastructure\u00a0development and agricultural expansion. RECOFTC \u2013 The Center for People and Forests, working with WWF and PanNature as\u00a0part of the European Union-funded Voices for the Mekong Forests (V4MF) project, is seeking to better understand the governance\u00a0challenges and opportunities in Viet Nam\u2019s forestry sector, as well as putting forward a programme to address these through the\u00a0empowerment of non-state actors (NSAs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[53,71,48],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-resources","tag-co-management","tag-forest-governance","tag-conservation","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}