Policy Planning and Inventory Section
Policy and Planning Section
Activity
- Review new forestry legislations and progress its enactment, implementations and monitoring.
- Planning and policies development.
- Preparation of proposal for institutional strengthening of the Ministry
・Improve regulation, monitoring and enforcement within the forest sector by conducting multi-stakeholder consultation on proposed forestry legislation, undertaking assessment of the value of standing forest, strengthening the application of the development consent process in forests areas, strengthening the management of information on licenses, as well as improving downstream processing and market access for timber through training on timber processing, establishing an internationally recognized timber legality system and strengthening landowner led timber milling.
・Strengthen the existing reforestation and plantation development programme by strengthening incentive mechanisms for reforestation and plantation development by landowners.
・Establishment of Forest Reserves to conserve watersheds by developing a framework for the establishment and management of forest reserves that can be included within legislation and building the capacity of MoFR, MoAL, and MECDM staff to establish them.The section is mandated to achieve the following core programs and strategies
- Improve regulation, monitoring and enforcement within the forest sector by conducting
multi-stakeholder consultation on proposed forestry legislation, undertaking assessment of the value of standing forest, strengthening the application of the development consent process in forests areas, strengthening the management of information on licenses, as well as improving downstream processing and market access for timber through training on timber processing, establishing an internationally recognized timber legality system and strengthening landowner led timber milling. - Strengthen the existing reforestation and plantation development programme by strengthening incentive mechanisms for reforestation and plantation development by landowners.
- Establishment of Forest Reserves to conserve watersheds by developing a framework for the establishment and management of forest reserves that can be included within legislation and building the capacity of MoFR, MoAL, and MECDM staff to establish them.
Licensing Unit’s responsibility include assisting the Commissioner of Forest to process milling and felling licenses, create & maintain a viable license data base, attend timber right hearing, witness execution of Standard Logging Agreement, offer advice to clients regarding timber rights, carry out timber rights awareness with Provincial Executives, rural communities and perform other administration duties such as filling of correspondences within the Unit. Periodic activities:
- Assess and register new licence application.
- Monitor timber rights process.
- Monitor compliance of licence conditions.
- Review of licensing files and cancelled licenses files archived.
- Filing correspondences into designated files.
- Monitor and updating licensing data base information.
The Section is to effectively monitor and enforce the forestry legislation and its regulations for better use of our forests to improve and maintain forest sustainability of our Nations’ Forests for maximum benefit and continuous forest services to our future generations. Core functions are;
- Provide relevant documents to other Ministries, forest stakeholders and the general public on logging issues and procedures.
- Attend to clients in office regarding logging issues.
- Response to incoming and outgoing correspondences in relation to logging issues.
- Undertake field tours to investigate, verify and advise the Commissioner of Forests on possible course of action to be taken.
- Prepare affidavits with AG on behalf of the Commissioner of Forests.
- Attend combine seminars and tours with Law Enforcement Section e.g. Immigration, Labour and etc.
