The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will assess, approve and implement the project.

Earlier, the MARD organized a conference to review the first phase of the project, which is realized from May 2009 to December 31, 2012.

The project, launched in Ha Noi, Quang Ninh, Thanh Hoa and Thua Thien Hue, aims to support MARD in sector-wide forest governance and management through developing a modern information system from central to local level, in order to provide accurate information for decision making for forestry sector at all levels.

The FORMIS succeeded in establishing a process, procedure and exchange mechanism among forestry agencies, strengthening capacity of information collection and management, upgrading and setting up a new information technology infrastructure, and improving the capacity of the MARD in supervising the implementation of the Viet Nam Forestry Development Strategy./.

By Thuy Dung