LA-Scaling-Up Participatory Sustainable Forest Management

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The development objective of the Scaling-up Participatory Sustainable Forest Management Project for Lao People's Democratic Republic is to execute Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) activities through participatory sustainable forest management in priority areas and to pilot forest landscape management in four provinces. The project has four components. The first component is strengthening and expanding Participatory Sustainable Forest Management (PSFM) in production forest areas. It has following two sub-components: (1) developing partnerships to increase implementation capacity. This subcomponent will support development of strategic partnerships and collaborative arrangements with national institutions and Non-Profit Associations (NPAs). Regional and international agencies will also be contracted to augment strategic skills as needed; and (2) community engagement in PSFM and village livelihood development. This subcomponent will finance village livelihood grants to implement Community Action Plans (CAPs) and finance the review, and revision of key social, institutional and technical guidelines for implementation of PSFM and Village Livelihood Development (VLD). The second component is piloting forest landscape management. It has following two sub-components: (a) developing methodologies and frameworks for forest landscape management. This sub component will support the development and adoption of a landscape approach for forest and biodiversity resources management in four Northern provinces in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR).; and (b) establishing forest landscape pilots. Under this sub-component support will be provided for designing provincial pilots based on the mechanisms and frameworks developed under subcomponent 2a. The third component is enabling legal and regulatory environment. This component has following three sub-components: (i) strengthening legal and regulatory frameworks. This sub-component will support development of legal and regulatory frameworks for implementation of PSFM and frameworks for Forest Landscape Management (FLM); (ii) strengthening forest law enforcement and governance. This sub-component will strengthen forest law enforcement and governance through Department of Forest Inspection (DoFI) implementation of the national forest law enforcement strategy 2020; and (iii) creating public awareness for climate change and REDD+. This sub-component will support Government of Lao PDR (GoL) efforts to create public awareness for climate change and REDD+ by designing a national communication strategy and a public awareness campaign. The fourth component is project management. This component will cover project management at the national and sub-national level, Technical Assistance (TA), and monitoring and evaluation.