Collaborative management of forests and wildlife in Vietnam

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This project deals with land use by local communities and encroachment issues that threaten biodiversity in the Bi Doup-Nui Ba National Park area and buffer zone. It works with
local communes and the park management board to develop and implement co-management
practices that will enable local communities to sustainably utilise natural resources within the
park whilst protecting biodiversity. This will be done by:

• Developing and implementing legal frameworks for community management
   
• Building capacity of buffer zone villagers to negotiate, monitor and benefit from comanagement agreements
   
• Establishing a core protection zone, surrounding land use boundaries and communityenforcement groups
   
• Carrying out an economic feasibility study and developing and implementing a community
   
• sustainable financing plan
   
• Training/empowering communities to monitor their natural resources and manage access to resources and the core national park area
   
• Reviewing and communicating lessons learned