Evaluation of the project "Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in Support of REDD+ in Bangladesh

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Evaluation of the project "Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in Support of REDD+ in Bangladesh

Project code: GCP/BGD/058/USA - Management response

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

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Language English

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Evaluation of the project "Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in Support of REDD+ in Bangladesh
Project code: GCP/BGD/058/USA - Annex 1. Terms of reference
2023

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Evaluation of the project "Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in Support of REDD+ in Bangladesh"
Project code: GCP/BGD/058/USA
2023

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The evaluation of “Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in support of REDD+ in Bangladesh”, funded by the United States, concluded that the new Bangladesh Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System developed under this project will greatly improve the consistency and standing of reporting by Bangladesh, including those for forest resources assessment, SDGs and REDD+. The methodologies developed under the project were of a very high standard and greatly improved the monitoring and reporting by the Bangladesh Forest Department and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The Land Cover Classification System is impressive, transforming how land cover mapping will be accomplished in Bangladesh and how results will be comparable across many applications. The evaluation is recommending FAO to pursue the dissemination of knowledge and exert influence over the use of the results in forest management programmes and policies. FAO should identify potential forest "hotspot" areas for action and start planning the support to the next National Forest Inventory.
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Strengthening National Forest Monitoring Systems for REDD+ 2018

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been providing support to member countries on national forest monitoring for decades. Best practices and lessons learned from this support are summarized in FAO´s Voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring (VGNFM). The guidelines provide principles, elements and best practices for the establishment and implementation of a multipurpose National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS). The aim of this paper is to strengthen the elements and guidelines provided in the VGNFM in the context of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). It also includes a deeper analysis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change decisions and the most recent methodological recommendations provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focusing on the three pillars of an NFMS for REDD+: a Satellite Land Monitoring System, a National Forest Inventory, and REDD+ reporting, including the combination of remote-sensing and ground-based forest inventory to estimate anthropogenic forest related Greenhouse Gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks.