{"id":4481,"date":"2021-07-28T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2021-07-28T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:30:20","slug":"new_forest-monitoring-and-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/new_forest-monitoring-and-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"New forest monitoring and evaluation system developed to improve landscape governance in Viet Nam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWF-Viet Nam, RECOFTC, and People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) have developed a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system and its mobile application to support the monitoring and evaluation of forest governance in Viet Nam.<\/p>\n<p>The application is a tool that is part of the forest governance monitoring system, designed to enhance accountability, performance, and participation in policy-making, planning, and law enforcement. The use of the system and the application is a contribution to implementing the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between the European Union and Viet Nam, which came into force in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data collected by the application will be analyzed to develop national policy recommendations to improve forest governance and contribute to forest conservation,&#8221; said Nguyen Bich Hang, Project Manager of the Forest Sector Transformation and the Voices for Mekong Forest (V4MF) at WWF-Viet Nam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We developed the application to collect data that would monitor forest governance policy and its implementation in practice,&#8221; said Nguyen Hai Van, Deputy Director of PanNature. &#8220;We took strong forest governance principle-oriented design and a ground-based approach to developing detailed criteria and indicators to inform the monitoring system. This approach ensures flexibility in the system when it is applied to the local setting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In early 2021, WWF, RECOFTC, and PanNature tested the FGMS application in Quang Nam Province. By the end of 2021, the application will be available for external stakeholders, such as non-state actors, to use. <a href=\"https:\/\/nature.org.vn\/vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/280721_WWF_FGMS-Manual.pdf\">A manual<\/a> in Vietnamese is available to guide people to use the application.<\/p>\n<p>The application and manual were developed under the V4MF project, funded by the European Union. The project works to strengthen the participation of non-state actors in forest landscape governance. RECOFTC leads the project in partnership with WWF-Greater Mekong, WWF-Viet Nam, the East-West Management Institute-Open Development Initiative, Preferred by Nature, the NGO Forum on Cambodia, the Lao Biodiversity Association, the Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-conservation Network, Raks Thai Foundation, and PanNature.<\/p>\n<p>The forest governance monitoring system will support FLEGT, the REDD+ initiative, and payment for forest environmental services. It is designed to combine with other monitoring initiatives developed by non-state actors or to support other non-state forest governance monitoring systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWF-Viet Nam, RECOFTC, and People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) have developed a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system and its mobile application to support the monitoring and evaluation of forest governance in Viet Nam. 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