FAO is delighted to dedicate its next NFO-Technical Network Webinar to “FAO Open Foris tools in action in the Myanmar National Forest Inventory”. The session will share the latest updates from Myanmar’s NFI and demonstrate how Open Foris tools have been used in field data collection, management, processing and reporting in Myanmar and what benefits these open-source tools can provide for large area forest inventories.

Date:   Thursday, 3^rd December 2020
Time:   09:30 – 10:45AM CET (Rome)    |     15:00 – 16:15PM GMT+6:30 (Naypyidaw)

Language: English

Registration:  https://bit.ly/OF_Myanmar (The maximum number of participants is 500, remember to register and join in a timely manner on the day.)

Format: The webinar will include a series of presentations and lightning talks highlighting the scope, purpose and progress of National Forest Inventory in Myanmar, followed by a demonstration of NFI data collection and analysis with Open Foris. The session will be concluded with an interactive Q&A session.

Speakers:

Opening Lightning talks:

• Mr Julian Fox, National Forest Monitoring Team Leader, FAO.
• Dr Thaung Naing Oo, Program Director of UN-REDD/Direct of Planning and Statistics Division, Forest Department, Myanmar.
• Ms Rebecca Tavani, Forestry Officer (NFI), NFM Team, Forestry Division, FAO.

 Panellists:

• Mr Franz Eugen Arnold, Forestry Officer, FAO Myanmar.
• Mr Lauri Vesa, Forestry Officer, FAO.
• Mr Phone Htut, National Consultant Remote Sensing and GIS (NCRS), FAO Myanmar.
• Mr Khine Zaw Wynn, National Consultant, Forest Inventory and Analysis, FAO Myanmar.

Moderator: Ms Emily Donegan, National Forest Monitoring, FAO.

Background

With support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Open Foris initiative has been instrumental in supporting more than 45 countries in the development of transparent, reliable, relevant, accessible and sustainable National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS). These open-source tools make the processes of data collection, analysis and reporting more accessible, and more efficient, catalyzing progress for REDD+ monitoring, laying the groundwork for the transition to technically more ambitious Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) requirements under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement and the monitoring of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) in the coming years.

Since 2015, FAO through the UN-REDD Programme has been supporting the enhancement of capacities for National Forest Monitoring and the upgrading of the NFMS of the Myanmar government’s Forest Department, under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC). During this time technical co-operation has built a solid basis for Myanmar to implement a full-scale National Forest Inventory (NFI), a centrepiece of the upgraded NFMS. In June 2020 an agreement on implementing a five-year project on National Forest Inventory with a Human Rights Based Approach (NFI-NFMIS-HRBA) has been signed between the Forest Department of Myanmar and FAO with funding from the Government of Finland. The project is innovative in taking a conflict sensitive and human rights-based approach to forest monitoring, and it is at the frontline of applying the latest information and communication technology developed under the FAO-led Open Foris (OF) initiative.

For more information about Open Foris: https://www.un-redd.org/post/open-foris-innovative-free-and-open-tools-and-platforms-catalysing-climate-action

For more information about the webinar, please contact:

Lauri Vesa

Forestry Officer, FAO

[email protected]

Franz Arnold

Forestry Officer, FAO Myanmar

[email protected]

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