Luscious landscape with several buildings in background and woman and cow in foreground. — Typical house in Nam Duong Village.

© Fernando Potess (PRCF)

Testing Community-managed Forests with Financing from Payment for Forest Environmental Services in Vietnam

Grantee Name: People Resources and Conservation Foundation

Hotspot: Indo-Burma
Location: Viet Nam
Amount: $19,195
Dates: Apr 2016 – Oct 2017
Keywords: Access and Benefit Sharing, Community-based conservation, Conservation finance, Forestry, Payment for Ecosystem Services

Improve biodiversity conservation at Sinh Long Key Biodiversity Area, Na Hang district, Tuyen Quang province, Vietnam, by determining the feasibility of establishing community-managed forests at this site, developing a framework for doing so with local communities, and signing agreements with Commune People's Committees on the use of "payments for forest environmental services" (PFES) to improve forest protection, biodiversity conservation, and community development.

Strategic Direction :

4 Empower local communities to engage in conservation and management of priority key biodiversity areas

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Safeguard: Process Framework

Testing Community-managed Forests with Financing from Payment for Forest Environmental Services in Vietnam

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