MS4 ATTACHMENT 2 Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Collaboration for Agriculture and Rural Development Sustainable Community-Based Forest Development and Management in Some High Poverty Areas in Bac Kan Province (Project 017/06 VIE) Community Forest Management Plans Prepared by Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry Kim Hy Nature Reserve Bac Kan Extension Department October 2007 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction: 3 2. Objectives of CFM plan 3 2.1 Establish regulations of CFM 3 2.1.1 Regulations of CFM 3 CFM regulation should consider general conditions: 3 2.2.2 Contents of CFM regulations 3 2.2 CMF Plan 4 3. Methods 4 3.1 Working group 4 3.2 Methods for establishing forest protection regulations 4 3.3 Development of CFM plan 4 3.4 Summary and writing results: 5 4. Results 5 4.1 Establish CMF regulations 5 4.1.1 Regulations of Community Forests for To Dooc Village 6 4.1.2 Regulations of Community Forests for Khoa Lieng Village 9 4.1.3 Regulations of Community Forests for Ban Sang Village 12 4.1.4 Regulations of Community Forests for Na Muc Village 15 4.2 CFM plans 18 4.2.1 CFM plan for To Dooc village 18 4.2.2 Khuoi Lieng village 20 4.2.3 Ban Sang Village 22 4.2.4 Na Muc Village 24 5. Conclusions and recommendations 25 Appendix 1: Schedule for development of CFM plans 26 Appendix 1.1: To Dooc Village 26 Appendix 1.2: Khuoi Lieng Village 27 Appendix 1.3: Ban Sang 28 Appendix 1.4: Na Muc Village 29 3 1. Introduction: CARD Project 017/06VIE - Sustainable community-based forest development and management in some high poverty areas in Bac Kan Province" at the four pilot villages, Na Muc and Khuoi Lieng village (Van Minh Commune) and To Dooc and Ban Sang (Lang San Commune), Na Ri District, Bac Kan province has been implemented. The first stage as land use planning and land allocation to village communities was completed which gave a necessary condition to implement the CFM project. Following this step, developing CFM plan is an important task to organise how the community forests will be managed and developed by village communities to meet sustainability. CFM plan should be developed with participation of all community members as they are decision makers in the plan A CFM plan includes regulations of CFM, a general plan and a detailed plan. Regulations of CFM is a legal foundation for community members to implement CFM at the village level. General and detailed plans will help the communities to implement project activities following time table for the next several years such as plantation technique, fire prevention and protection, logging, and processing. In addition, the plan can be used to seek funding support from outside. More over, it can be used for evaluating results of the project in the future. To meet contents as above, CFM plans have been developed for implementation at the four pilot villages of this CARD project. 2. Objectives of CFM plan 2.1 Establish regulations of CFM 2.1.1 Regulations of CFM CFM regulation should consider general conditions: - Within the jurisdiction of laws and appropriate with local traditional culture or custom. - Clearly stated and easy to understand and implement. 2.2.2 Contents of CFM regulations - Rights and responsibilities of all community members in forest protection and development - Rules to protect forests and mobilise human resources to protect and develop forests - Logging, buy and sell, timber and non-timber transport - Forest animals - Grazing animals in the community forest - Prevent forest fire, methods to use fire in the forest - Checking and preventing outsiders from shifting cultivation, illegal logging or hunting, and illegal buying, selling and transporting timber/non-timber/animals within the village. - Cooperation among community members in forest protection/development, production services and sale of products. - Collaborating with other villages to protect and develop the forests effective - Regulations on punishment for breaking the forest protection rules 4 - Regulations on sharing benefits within community members - The regulations should be presented to all community member and the need to be submit to Commune People's Committee for approval. 2.2 CMF Plan A CFM plan covers general plan for forest management and an annual plan for implementation. Thus a CMF plan should include the following details: - New plantation plan such as what kinds of species? how big area?, where? When? How much of labor costs? How many seedlings? Sources of seedlings? - Nursery plan, seedling production - Maintenance and protection - Harvesting plans - Human resource plan - Other activities such as agro-forestry 3. Methods 3.1 Working group Working team in the field includes staffs from Thai Nguyen University, Bac Kan Extension Department, Kim Hy Natural Reserve Area, extentionists from Van Minh and Lang San communes, and key villagers. Mr. Nguyen My Hai (Bac Kan staff) has a main responsibility for the fieldwork and preparing first draft report. Thai Nguyen University staff provided advice, checking and writing final report. 3.2 Methods for establishing forest protection regulations Structure of CFM regulation is prepared in advance, based on related legal documents and local traditional culture and custom. Group meetings were carried out for discussion and drawing regulations on community forest protection and development. The last draft of the Community Forest Protection and Development Regulations was presented and updated by the whole village community through a village meeting. These regulations become formal documents after being accepted by the majority of village members, and will become legal documents after being approved by the local authorities (commune and district levels). 3.3 Development of CFM plan To develop CFM plan, the following steps are taken: Step 1- Field survey: • Working group and all members of village community (one person from each household) go to the field together. In the field, they need to find out: • Review borders, forest types and farming systems of community forest areas. • Discuss with villagers what should be done on the different forest types, including: o Bare land - find out what kinds of species should be planted on the different sites. 5 o Young forest types - decide what technical activities should be carried out for maintenance and protection task. • Discuss solutions how to reduce/stop shifting cultivation in community forests • Discuss free grazing, forest fire and illegal timber logging or harvest of non-timber products, and how to prevent these situations. • Working group and villagers work together to estimate the amount of new plantation seedlings and labor working days. Step 2- Village meeting The working group and key informants from the village will develop CFM plan (general and detailed plans) based on data/information from the field surveys in Step 1). The CFM plan should consider some main points as follows: • Cropping seasons, priority for short-term and long-term purposes • Short and clear so villagers can understand and contribute their ideas • CFM plan should be presented and updated to all villagers through a village meeting. It will become a formal CFM plan after being accepted by the majority of villagers at the meeting. 3.4 Summary and writing results: All data/information from the field surveys and results from group discussion /village meeting should be summarized following table formats. 4. Results 4.1 Establish CFM regulations Regulations of CFM for the four pilot villages have been developed with full participation of villagers. The proposed regulations were subsequently accepted by all members of the village communities through final village meetings. Once these regulations receive approval by district People’s Committee, they will become legal documents for the villages. 6 4.1.1 Regulations of Community Forests for To Dooc Village A structure of CFM regulations consisting of 12 articles is based on: (1) The related legal documents as: - Documentation No. 56/1999/TT/BNN-KL dated 30/3/1999 on guidelines of Community Forest Protection and Development Regulations. - Degree No. 106/2006/BNN-PTNT on establishing and management community forests. - Decree No. 139/2004/CP dated 25/6/2005 on Administration Treatment of Forest Product protection and Management. - Decree No. of Na Ri District Committee's People on Land Allocation to Village Community (2) Village Meeting dated 10 October 2007 Article 1: Rights and Responsibility of village community members on forest protection and development: - Rights: the community can obtain all benefits of timber and non-timber products from the allocated community forests. However, all logging or harvesting must follow legal regulations and ensure sustainability. - Responsibilities: all members of the village community have a responsibility on forest protection and development activities, in particular contribution of labour inputs for new planting and maintenance of young forests. Article 2: Shifting cultivation/upland fields - Do not practice shifting cultivation or upland fields on the community forest areas. - Only practice cultivation in the upland fields as designed in the LUP. Article 3: Free grazing in the forests - No free animal grazing in the community forest areas. Article 4: Forest development - Planting trees on all bare hills/plots which have been located in the community forest areas. - Maintain and protect all existing regenerated forests. Article 5: Forest protection and prevention of forest fire - The village community has a responsibility in all tasks of forest protection and prevention of forest fire. - Establish forest patrol groups for prevention of illegal logging, forest fire, free grazing and others. Article 6: Human resources on forest protection and development 7 - All community members will contribute labour inputs for forest protection and development activities. Article 7: Community Forest Management Board - Community Forest Management Board (5 people representing the village community through voting) is elected every one or two years. This Board can be added or changed where necessary. - The Community Forest Management Board should have responsibilities for developing and implementing the related activities in the CFM Plan such as mobilizing labour working days for new plantation, logging, harvesting, and checking forests. Article 8: Forest product logging/harvesting - All timbers and non-timber products from the community forests belong to the village community. - To exploit a large quantity of timber and non-timber products from the community forests, a permit must be obtained from the community, including when, where and how to meet all legal regulations of forest product exploitation. - Non-timber products such as honey bee, mushrooms and fruits can be collected as normal practice by the community. - If households within the village community need timber from the community forest areas for house construction, they must obtain a permit from the community. In addition, they have to pay a fee to the community. The amount of timber for logging and amount of fee will be decided by the community. - The Community Forest Management Board has a responsibility on management of harvesting forest products from the community forests. Article 9: Benefit sharing Any income and benefit from the community forests will be shared as follows: - 20% of total income for the forest development fund - 20% of total income for community activities - 60% of total income for households who contributed their work. Article 10: Deal with illegal activities - All illegal activities are subject to penalty and fine 3 times of the value of the damage. - Illegal logging is strictly prohibited. Infringement is subject to penalty and fine 2.5 times of the value of timber. In addition, all illegally exploited timbers will be confiscated by the community. - If animals from any household cause damage to the community forests, they have to pay compensation to all damages. - Other illegal activities which cause serious damage to the community forests will be referred to the court. Article 11: Other regulations 8 - Selling products from the community forests will be decided by the village community. - When the village community harvest timbers from the community forests, members of the village have the priority to buy the timber for their own use only at 5-10% discount. - The Community Forest Management Board has a responsibility to coordinate with other villages on forest protection with the support from the local authorities. Article 12: Execution of article - The regulations as above were accepted by the village community through the village meeting and approved by the Commune People’s Committee. - These regulations are effective from the approval date. Representative of CFM Board Commune People’s Committee District People’s Committee 9 4.1.2 Regulations of Community Forests for Khoa Lieng Village A structure of CFM regulations consisting of 12 articles is based on: (1) The related legal documents as: - Documentation No. 56/1999/TT/BNN-KL dated 30/3/1999 on guidelines of Community Forest Protection and Development Regulations. - Degree No. 106/2006/BNN-PTNT on establishing and management community forests. - Decree No. 139/2004/CP dated 25/6/2005 on Administration Treatment of Forest Product protection and Management. - Degree No. of Na Ri District Committee's People on Land Allocation to Village Community (2) Village Meeting dated 14 October 2007 Article 1: Rights and Responsibility of village community members on forest protection and development: - Rights: the community can obtain all benefits of timber and non-timber products from the allocated community forests. However, all logging or harvesting must follow legal regulations and ensure sustainability. - Responsibilities: all members of the village community have a responsibility on forest protection and development activities, in particular contribution of labour inputs for new planting and maintenance of young forests. Article 2: Shifting cultivation/upland fields - Reduce or stop practicing shifting cultivation in the community forest areas. - For households who are currently practicing upland fields in the community forests, they can continue with a maximum area of 0.5 ha. All areas above 0.5 ha should be handed back to the community for forest management. All shifting cultivation must be stopped within 3 years and the land given back to the community for establishment of new plantation. Article 3: Free grazing in the forests - No free animal grazing in the community forest areas. Article 4: Forest development - Planting trees on all bare hills/plots which are located within the community forest areas. - Maintain and protect all existing regenerated forests. Article 5: Forest protection and prevention of forest fire - The village community has a responsibility on all tasks of forest protection and prevention of forest fire. - Establish forest patrol groups to prevent illegal logging, forest fire, free grazing and others. 10 Article 6: Human resources on forest protection and development - All community members will contribute labour inputs for forest protection and development activities. Article 7: Community Forest Management Board - Community Forest Management Board (5 people representing the village community through voting) is elected every one or two years. This Board can be added or changed where necessary. - The Community Forest Management Board has a responsibility for developing and implementing plan related to CFM activities such as mobilizing labour working days for new plantation, logging, harvesting, checking forests. Article 8: Forest product logging/harvesting - All timbers and non-timber products which are collected from the community forests belong to the village community. - To exploit a large amount of timber and non-timber products from the community forests, a permitted must be obtained from the community, including when, where and how to meet all legal regulations of forest product exploitation. - Non-timber products such as honey bee, mushrooms and fruits can be collected as usual by the community. - If households within the village community need timber from the community forest areas for building their house, they need to obtain permission from the community. In addition, they have to pay a fee to the community. The amount of timber for logging and fee will be decided by the community. - The Community Forest Management Board has a responsibility on management of forest product harvesting from the community forests. Article 9: Benefits sharing Any income from the community forests will be shared as below: - 20% of total income for the forest development fund - 20% of total income for community activities - 60% of total income for households who contributed their work Article 10: Deal with illegal activities - All illegal activities are subject to penalty and fine 3 times of the value of the damage. - Illegal logging is strictly prohibited. Infringement is subject to penalty and fine 2.5 times of the value of timber. In addition, all illegally exploited timbers will be confiscated by the community. - If animals from any household cause damage to the community forests, they have to pay compensation to all damages. - Other illegal activities which cause serious damage to the community forests will be referred to the court. 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Muc Village 29 3 1. Introduction: CARD Project 017/06VIE - Sustainable community- based forest development and management in some high poverty areas in Bac Kan Province& quot; at the four. Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Collaboration for Agriculture and Rural Development Sustainable Community- Based Forest Development and Management in Some High Poverty. Muc and Khuoi Lieng village (Van Minh Commune) and To Dooc and Ban Sang (Lang San Commune), Na Ri District, Bac Kan province has been implemented. The first stage as land use planning and land