TBI Vietnam

Linking forest information to decision making (INFOLINK)

Overall Objective:
To contribute to the information strategy for the forestry sector.
Specific Objectives
The specific objective is an improved information flow and use for sustainable forest management and forest policy in Hue province, through the development of a user-based Decision Support System that can support a rational decision making process for a better management of a specific forestry problem, which includes a number of stake holders and requires a large spatial and thematic data sets in Hue province
Output:
  1. User Requirement Study for Hue province
  2. Prototype DSS focusing on selected problem (e.g. selection of planting sites)
  3. Supporting database (e.g. soil, climate conditions, ecological requirements of tree species, accessibility, economic condition of pop, government policy etc.)
  4. Strengthened capacity
  5. Trained FDS and FPS staff in data base management and DSS operation
  6. Trained FDS and FPS executive staff, to manage database and DSS operators in data base management and DSS operation
  7. Trained CFIC and FREC staff in DSS design, etc
Status
Ongoing project: 2003-2005
Project Outline
The project addresses the identified and pressing problem that forestry research results in Vietnam so far have either not reached implementing agencies because of inadequate dissemination or have not been directly relevant to the needs of the forestry sector and the local populations of forest-dependent households, according to the Vietnamese forest policy document "Five-million Hectares Reforestation Programme (5MHRP)", as cited in the Tropenbos-Vietnam Project Document, 2002. Through a process of stakeholder (information user) involvement, the project will carry out a User Requirement Study in Thua Thien Hué Province on spatial information availability and use in forestry decision-making processes. A priority forestry-cum-information problem will then be selected, and translated into information specifications and technical specifications for database and decision support system design. A prototype decision support system will be built, together with a supporting database, and validated. Training and capacity building are included at degree (research) level, at operators level, and at the level of executive staff (decision makers), making the system operational and capable of supporting better decision making than before.
Workpackages INFOLINK
  1. WP0: User identification; assuring User participation
  2. WP1: Critical review of current 5-year Reforestation planning practice
  3. WP2: Analysis of the decision making practices of the 5-year Reforestation plan
  4. WP3: Data base development for 5-year Reforestation plan preparation
  5. WP4: Mapping of the current LC/LU in Bo River watershed
  6. WP5: Support to provincial LU master planning (integrated future LU)
  7. WP6: Assessment of the resource context for developing an improved 5-year Reforestation plan
  8. WP7: Development of a 5-year Reforestation planning support sub-system
  9. WP8: Development of a monitoring and evaluation support sub-system
  10. WP9: Training and final workshopOverview of (intermediary) project results (i.e. database, methodology, maps, tool, test plot, etc.
Partners
FIPI-CIFIC FIPI-FREC Forest Protection Department, Hue Forest Development Department, Hue Sub-FIPI Hué
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