1. Presenter(s): Date: Towards FORMIS, Phase II F O R M I S Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector Presenter(s): Tapio Leppanen Date: 7 January, 2013

2. Basic Facts Implementing agency: VNFOREST, MARD Financial support: Government of Finland Consulting services: Niras Finland in collaboration with GFA and GreenField Development Budget: approximately EUR 10 million (phase 1 was approximately EUR 4 million) F O R M I S | Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector2

3. Overall Objective and Purpose Overall Objective: Forest resources are managed in a sustainable way based on up-to-date information and they contribute to the alleviation of poverty in the socio-economic development framework of Vietnam Purpose: A fully integrated management information system (MIS) for forestry decision making F O R M I S | Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector3

4. Results 1.Procedures, standards and mechanisms to transfer information between Vietnamese agencies 2.FORMIS Platform, portal and applications have been tested and operational in all provinces with focus on forested provinces 3.Forest sector data standardised and converted into FORMIS standard database and reporting forest performance indicators in place 4.Strengthened capacity for information management and collection 5.Information Centre of the Forestry sector/ Forest IT Unit F O R M I S | Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector 4

5. FORMIS Phase II Challenge: scaling up nationwide Geographic scope of FORMIS: Vietnam Number of forested provices 60 Number of districts in forested provinces 671 Systems that can be deployed nationwide from the start: Portal, platform, resource database, reporting application (quick FPD version) Activities that are nationwide: training, data integration, data creation, coordination Nationwide approach reguires good organisation: Experts with national responsibilities Three coordinators with regional responsibilities Province working groups District working groups 5F O R M I S | Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector

6. FORMIS Phase II scope Value Chain Perspective 6 DONE IN FORMIS PHASE ONE FORMIS PLATFORM VIETNAM FOREST INFORMATION PORTAL DONE IN FORMIS PHASE ONE INFORMATION STANDARD INFORMATION SHARING MECHANISMS DATABASE SYSTEM APPLICATIONS CAPACITY AND COMPETENCE IN PILOT AREAS DATA SETS FORMIS PHASE TWO INFORMATION STANDARDS DATABASE APPLICATIONS DATASETS CAPACITY BUILDING F O R M I S | Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector

7. F O R M I S Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector F O R M I S | Development of Management Information System for Forestry Sector7 Supported by: Implementing Agency: Lead consultant:In consortium with: