ASEAN’s capacity building on sustainable forest management

(KPL) The ASEAN member countries discussed a plan on strengthening the capacity building of personnel on sustainable forest management in the meeting of Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting (MAR), held in Vientiane Capital, on 20-22 January,.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Director of Forest Department, Dr Silavanh Savatvong.
Attending the meeting were nine ASEAN member countries excepted Singapore.
Dr Silavanh said that the meeting was aimed at exchanging lessons and learning new techniques, mechanism, system, inspection method, evaluation and reporting on sustainable forest management from experts of the ASEAN member countries.
The meeting has been organised under the action plan of MAR project, which led to close cooperation among the Lao Forest Department, ASEAN Forest Department and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
“The new technique of sustainable forest management is very important for the enforcement of Lao government’s law and policy on forest management,” Dr Silavanh said. “The project started implementing in 2006 and would complete in this year”.
“The growth of world economy, the increasing of population, climate change and a high market demand were posing a threat to forest and natural resources in Laos,” he said.
This challenge issue, it is necessary for Laos to provide the reliable information on forest in the country.
The MAR project is the sustainable forest management project of the FAO, which was supported by the Government of Japan to develop technique and inspection system to evaluate as well as reporting on the forest situations in Asia-Pacific.

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