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Description: "...Table Contents: Awareness Raising, Training of Sustainable Land Use Planning, Planning with village leaders, Participatory Action Research, Formulation of Purpose Land Use Map (Overlaying mapping), CF Confirmation meeting, Concept of Community Forestry, CF committee forming, Transect walk and participatory forest inventory, Formulation of CF Land Use Map, Rules and responsibilities of CF users, CF planning (Annual/Thirty year), Village validation workshop ..."
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Date of entry/update: 2020-04-18
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Topic: capacity building, environment, forest conservation, forests, natural resources management, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable forestry
Topic: capacity building, environment, forest conservation, forests, natural resources management, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable forestry
Description: "With support from the Government of Norway, the UN-REDD Programme in partnership with the Regional Community Forestry Training Centre (RECOFTC), assisted the Government of Myanmar (GoM) and other stakeholders to develop a “REDD+ Readiness Roadmap” in the period July 2012-August 2013. The signature of the National Programme Document was completed on 15th November 2016, with a duration of 4 years. The first funds transfer from the MPTF-O occurred in November 2016. Thus the 4th quarter of 2018 will represent the half-way stage of implementation of the Programme. Experiences from other countries have indicated that a mid-term review (MTR) can significantly improve progress towards results in the second half of a programme, so a MTR for the Programme is proposed for Q4, 2018. The objective of the MTR is to secure agreement from both the implementing partner (Forest Department) and the three participating UN Agencies on measures to be implemented to improve performance of the Programme, and to ensure achievement of the anticipated results..."
Source/publisher: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) via United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2018-07-23
Date of entry/update: 2019-07-30
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Topic: biodiversity, capacity building, environmental economics, forest conservation, landscape restoration, stakeholder engagement, sustainable development
Topic: biodiversity, capacity building, environmental economics, forest conservation, landscape restoration, stakeholder engagement, sustainable development
Description: " WWF-Myanmar is now inviting applications for a Protected Areas and Law Enforcement Technical Advisor position based in Dawei, Myanmar. The Protected Areas and Law Enforcement Technical Advisor’s major function, among others includes: Provision of technical advice to relevant stakeholders; Provision and/or coordinate basic field ranger training for existing and new protected area rangers; Support the training and operational capacity of elephant anti-poaching units in the region; Play a supporting role in initiatives to design and implement a national programme for ranger professionalization..."
Source/publisher: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) via The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
2018-10-04
Date of entry/update: 2019-07-30
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Description: ..."This Working Paper examines options for improved sustainability and economic viability for community forest in Myanmar (See also Wode et al 2014). It was prepared under an EU-FAO Regional FLEGT Programme project implemented by Fauna & Flora International that is exploring opportunities and constraints for commercial timber production from community forests. The paper is written in the form of a draft ?Guide for Forest Management? that could be applied by Forest User Groups who have been handed over natural forest resources for sustainable long-term management and protection under a Community Forest (CF) certificate and with a CF management plan available. It is not a substitute for government regulations or departmental guidance, and is intended to promote discussion on sustainable forest management in the context of legal CF in Myanmar"...
Creator/author: Bjoern Wode
Source/publisher: Myanmar Conservation and Development Program (MCDP)
2014-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-20
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Language: English
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Description: "... The National Community Forestry Instruction (1995) provides communities the opportunity for 30 year licenses to manage state forests lands for natural forest protection, mixed agro-forestry and timber production systems. The Forestry Master Plan (2001) envisions around 920,000 ha to be handed to local Forest User Groups (FUGs) by 2030, about 1.36% of the total land area. A recent review of community forestry (CF) conducted in 2011 identified a range of constraints to allowing individual CFs to ?fulfil their potential”, and to scaling up the handover of CF to better meet the 2001 Forestry Master Plan targets. The review focused mostly on the institutional and technical impediments but also clearly identified the need for the scope of CF to shift from ?subsistence to enterprise” and integrate ?timber harvesting on a significantly larger scale”. Since 2008, FFI Myanmar and its partners have been actively supporting the establishment of CF as a tool for watershed protection, protected area buffer zone establishment and livelihood development. To date FFI has assisted over 50 communities with CF establishment, provided small grants and technical assistance to a further 30 CF groups, and conducted CF training for state and regional level civil society groups. FFI?s current strategic plan includes: i) The continued development of CF models to become self-funding, and ii) Evidence-based advocacy to streamline the CF application procedure. The long-term sustainability of CF in Myanmar may not be clear for some years, as even the oldest commercial CF trees are only 15 years old, but CF seems to offer considerable potential to provide a supply of timber and therefore generate substantial revenues for local communities. The current reforms in the Myanmar forest sector and the EU FLEGT initiative are providing an unprecedented opportunity to clarify community rights over CF timber and by doing so to promote the expansion and sustainability of CF. This report was prepared under an FFI project supported by the FAO/EU FLEGT Support Programme, which promotes the implementation of the FLEGT Action Plan by improving forest governance, providing technical assistance, and building capacity through funding projects in eligible countries..."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Conservation and Development Program (MCDP)
2014-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-19
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Language: English
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Description: ".. While the signs of democratization in a country may raise hopes of better natural resource governance, especially of forests, evidence from the Asia Pacific region in countries such as Indonesia and Cambodia demonstrates no significant relationship between a country?s transition toward democracy and better forestry governance. Myanmar?s transition to democracy is unlikely to counter this trend. Deeply vested interests operate within democratizing countries that outweight the support inside governments or civil society for improving forestry conservation..."
Creator/author: Stephen McCarthy
Source/publisher: East-West Center
2014-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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