Goals & Objectives
The project aims to restore degraded forestland and improve livelihood of forest dependent community in Phou Khaen Protection Forest areas through the development and application of different forest restoration measures and income generation from implementing forest restoration activities and Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs). The objectives are to:
- Develop, refine and make further replication available for a set of technically appropriate, economically viable and socially acceptable “Village-Driven Forest Restoration Model (ViDFoRM)” for degraded protection forest areas;
- Restore degraded forestland and protection of Phou Khaen Protection Forest Areas;
- Improve livelihood of forest dependent community in Phou Khaen Protection Forest Areas through income generation from implementing forest restoration activities and NTFPs; and
- Manage the project in an effective manner in compliance with project implementation guidelines and AFoCO related guidelines.
Main Activities
- Objective 1
- Familiarize local contexts and set up a project baseline information baseline and develop ViDFoRM related guidelines and training materials
- Produce case studies and policy briefs based on lessons learned to present it to senior level decision makers for its utilization in formulating forestry policy and regulations
- Objective 2
- Support the pilot commercial household and community of NTFPs production, its marketing, and tree plantation
- Promote and facilitate processing and marketing of NTFPs and planted timbers
- Objective 3
- Establish Provincial Management Unit (PMU) and District Coordination Unit (DCU), and their offices
- Procure vehicles, equipment, stationery and consumables
- Objective 4
- Develop project management procedures, regulations and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework and use the M&E results for adaptive project management
- Organize necessary workshops and managerial and technical trainings and study tours
- Conduct project monitoring and evaluation
Expected Outputs
- Restoration of approximately 6,000 ha of degraded forest areas in Phou Kaen Protection Forest, which would consequently contribute to achieving the national target of increasing forest cover to 70% of the total land areas and fulfillment of the National Determined Contribution as obligated to the Paris Agreement on climate change.
- Development of technically appropriate, economically viable and socially acceptable ViDFoRM for degraded protection forest areas
- Improved livelihood of forest dependent communities in Phou Khaen Protection Forest Areas with income generating activities from forest restoration and NTFPs
