Mr Vo Nam Son, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee

During April 23-25, 2021, the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) in collaboration with Quang Tri Forest Protection Department (FPD), Quang Tri-Union of Science and Technology Association for Forest and Biodiversity and the People’s Committee of Dakrong Commune co-organized a refresh training for the community group members in applying Forest Resource Monitoring System (FRMS) and GPS within the project "Dialogue for Sustainable Forest Development in Vietnam" at Dakrong district, Quang Tri province, Vietnam funded by the United Nations Democratic Fund (UNDEF).

Training on using CFMS

Reading information about CFMS

Also during this time, the project was included in the UNDEF Update No. 49. April 2021 shared on April 27 on the UNDEF website. The brief information of the project (coded UDF-18-825-VIE) with two others as a selection of groundbreaking projects refers to its objectives of increasing transparency and accountability in Viet Nam's forest sector. Through training and awareness-raising sessions, adapted to Covid-19 safety protocols, the project has been following its plan in providing support to the community members and organizations with the technical knowledge of forestry monitoring. 

Practice using GPS 

Presentation in front of the class

Guide on setting up and using CFMS

For more details of the Update No.49, please visit the link

https://www.un.org/democracyfund/sites/www.un.org.democracyfund/files/uu49_final.pdf