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8.3 Sustainable Forestry and Rural Development Project SUFORD
Name of the project: Sustainable Forestry and Rural Development Project SUFORD
Donor support:
Co-funded by the World Bank Loan, the GoF Grant and the GoL.
Level and type of financial support:
Mixed between grant and loan worth 16.45 millions US Dollars
Implementing agency:
NAFES with collaboration of NAFRI, DoF, STEA, respective PAFOs, DAFEOs, and village authorities
Project period: 2003 -2008
Location and coverage:
Working in eight production forests, covering a total area of about 655.000 ha in 8 districts of Khammouane, Savannakhet,
Champasack; and Salavanh provinces with 413 villages
Objective
x To improve the policy, legal and incentive framework enabling the expansion of sustainable, participatory
forest management throughout the country by assisting the Govemment in its implementation of policy reforms
described in its Letter of Forest Management Policy;
x To bring the country’s priority natural production forests under participatory sustainable forest management
PSFM; and x To improve villagers’ well-being and livelihoods
through benefits from sustainable forestry, community development and development of viable livelihood
systems.
CBFM focus
Support services for sustainable forest management sectoral policy reform support; establishment of the production forest
area system; forest management guidelines and procedures; strengthening sustainable forest management capacity; ii
Sustainable forest management and village development participatory sustainable forest management; and iii village
development; and Forestry sector monitoring and control.
Current status Under operation
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8.4 NAFRI-IUCN NTFP Project
Name of the project: NAFRI-IUCN NTFP Project,
Donor support: The Royal Netherlands Embassy,
Level and type of financial support:
Grant; worth 3.7 US Dollars
Implementing agency: NAFRI IUCN
Project period: July 1995 to September 2001
Location and coverage:
Originally worked in 6 districts of Oudomxay, Champasack, and Salavanh provinces, later on the project expanded into 2 other
districts
Long term objectives
x To conserve forest bio-diversity by promoting sustainable economic exploitation of non-timber forest products
NTFP at community and provincial levels.
Objective
x To remove some of the poverty-related factors that drive over-exploitation of NTFPs by local people;
x To empower local people to better control the access and use of forests by outsiders; and
x To organize local people to better coordinate their own behavior through institutional building.
CBFM focus Demonstrating sustainable systems of NTFP use that contribute
to forest and biodiversity conservation; developing an expansion strategy; and laying the groundwork for a national management
strategy for NTFPs
Current status Terminated in 2001; results have been used in NTFP policy
formulation; and some field experiences have been used in other areas, especially experiences from NTFP marketing group
in Ban Nampeng, Oudomxay province
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8.5 Nam Ngum Watershed Conservation Project NAWACOP
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