[PDF] Scaling Up Payments For Forest Environmental Services In Viet Nam eBook

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 929254537X

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) supported the provincial authorities of Quang Nam in Viet Nam to scale up the implementation of payments for forest environmental services (PFES) through a technical assistance financed by the Governments of Sweden and Norway. The project pilot-tested two innovations---the group approach and the use of a geographic information system---to speed up PFES planning and implementation in the province. Starting with five villages in Ma Cooih commune, the initiative expanded to include two more communes in the Song Bung 4 watershed. This publication shares lessons and insights gained from this experience, and with it ADB intends to contribute to developing a robust, affordable, and sustainable process of planning and implementing PFES at the provincial level, thereby helping accelerate its implementation.

Author : Pham, T.T.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
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Key messages Despite being a new funding source, PFES now contributes 22% of total forestry sector investment.The impact of PFES funding differs by location and actor group.To enhance the scale of PFES, and its impac

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 9789464478433

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As natural ecosystems continue to degrade, mainly due to human activities, payment for ecosystem services (PES) is becoming an increasingly popular way to use market logic and economic rationality in ecosystem management. This study aims to understand how payment for forest environmental services (PFES) policy, initially introduced as a neoliberal concept, has been shaped by a local context in which it is situated: Vietnam. It was found that PFES understandings and practices differ significantly from the ideal portrayed in the neoliberal PES definition, with very weak elements of conditionality and voluntariness. The neoliberal logic to address environmental problems by providing monetary incentives does not correspond with the views held by the Vietnamese PFES participants and is barely translated into implementation. Although PFES has brought some changes to policy conceptualization and discourses, these changes don’t significantly alter the pre-existing forest governance structures at local and national levels. It is recommended that PES be understood and analysed in its situational history, practices and scales; in Vietnam PFES is characterized by an actor-oriented, learning-based approach to co-invest in stewardship.

Author : Pham, T.T.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2019-10-11
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ISBN : 6023871240

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This policy learning tool is primarily designed for policy makers and government officers who need to carry out M&E and report on the progress and impact of Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES policies). While this policy learning tool is designed to meet policy makers’ need to understand the impact, opportunities and challenges of PFES, it can also be adapted by analysts, program sponsors and managers, practitioners in research and research funding organizations, and professional evaluators for their own needs in understanding and identifying areas for PFES improvement.

Author : Caleb Tyrell Gallemore
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2023
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Research on payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes indicates that few of them in fact implement full marketization on the ground, highlighting the need for better understanding of the performance of incompletely marketized PES models. One prominent example of a PES program with incomplete marketization is Vietnam's Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) scheme, a payment for environmental services program that has been progressively rolled out across over 40 provinces since 2008. The program is notable both for its spatial extent and its implementation, collecting funds primarily from taxes on water consumption in hydroelectric dams and water companies and redistributing it through a diverse array of contracts managed at provincial and national levels to protect and plant new forests. We assess the impact of PFES using matched two-way fixed effects models and matched multi-period difference-in-differences estimation. These methods both suggest that PFES restrains forest loss at a rate comparable to or greater than state-managed protected areas. Importantly, these effects are weak or nonexistent until PFES has been established for over three years. Taken together, these findings provide strong evidence that state-managed PES-like programs can perform well in forest protection even if they lack full marketization.

Author : Le Quang Trung
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 6023870120

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What are the roles and responsibilities of different levels of government over forests and land use in Vietnam? Over the last two decades how have government priorities shifted? How has decentralisation been realised through changing land laws and forest protection and development programs? Which powers and responsibilities are centralized, and which are decentralized? What role do local people play? This report reviews the statutory distribution of powers and responsibilities across levels and sectors. It outlines the legal mandates held by national and lower level governments with regard to land and forest allocation, afforestation programs, rubber plantations, Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES), land use planning, and more. The review considers legal and policy changes in land use and forestry in Vietnam following the ‘doi moi’ reform in 1986 up to 2014. After a short introduction, the second section describes the decentralization process, including mechanisms for participation. The third section outlines sources of revenue available to different government levels from forest fees and payments for environmental services. The fourth section details the specific distribution of powers and arenas of responsibility related to multiple land use sectors across and within levels, and the fifth and final section concludes on the policy changes and processes in relation to observed forest cover change. The study was commissioned under CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+, as part of a research project on multilevel governance and carbon management at the landscape scale. It is intended as a reference for researchers and policy makers working on land use issues in Vietnam.

Author : Wil de Jong
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reforestation
ISBN : 9792446524

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This report assesses the experiences of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam and draws strategic lessons from these experiences to guide new forest rehabilitation projects. The report highlights lessons from Vietnam's experiences that will be helpful beyond the country border. This report has the following structure: the remainder of chpater one provides the conceptual clarification and theoritical underpinnings for the study and introduces the methodology. Chapter two provides background information and context for the outcomes of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam, including basic information on Vietnam, its forest cover, forestry sector and policies that are relevant to forestry and forest rehabilitation. Chapter three gives an overview of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam from its inception in the 1950s until today, as the country carries out its latest nationwide forest rehabilitation effort, the 5 million hectares reforestation project. Chapter four analyses in detail forest rehabilitation project that were analysed in the field study carried out as part of this study. Chapter five draws lessons from the report.