{"id":56,"date":"2017-06-15T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-07-10T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:40:54","slug":"technical-working-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/?page_id=56","title":{"rendered":"Technical Working Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The REDD+ Taskforce will oversee the work of three TWGs. The three groups are:<br \/>\n\u2022 TWG on National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) and Reference Emission Levels (RELs)\/ Reference Levels (RLs)<br \/>\n\u2022 TWG on Safeguards, Governance and Benefit Distribution<br \/>\n\u2022 TWG on Strategy Options<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWG on NFMS and RELs\/ RLs<\/strong><br \/>\nThis TWG supports the<br \/>\n(1) design and implementation of NFMS,<br \/>\n2) ensure that lessons and experiences from current forest monitoring systems in Bhutan are incorporated into the NFMS design; and that lessons from similar analyses in other countries are integrated into recommendations for Bhutan\u2019s system, and<br \/>\n3) assess and support the establishment of RELs\/RLs and MRV in Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>The TWG on NFMS and RELs\/RLs is led by Department of Forests &amp; Park Services (Forest Resources Management Division) consisting of following members:<br \/>\n\u2022 Forest Resources Management Division, Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 National Land Commission Secretariat (NLCS)<br \/>\n\u2022 Ministry of Works &amp; Human Settlement (MoWHS)<br \/>\n\u2022 Department of Hydropower Services, Ministry of Economic Affairs<br \/>\n\u2022 Ugyen Wangchuk Institute of Conservation, Environment and Research (UWICER), Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWG on Safeguards, Governance and Benefit Distribution<\/strong><br \/>\nThis TWG will<br \/>\n1) support the assessment and development of safeguards as part of Bhutan\u2019s REDD+ Readiness process, and<br \/>\n2) to ensure that lessons and experiences from current or previous Benefit Distribution Systems (BDS) in Bhutan are assessed in the context of REDD+ requirements; and<br \/>\n3) that lessons from similar analyses in other countries are integrated into recommendations for a REDD+ distribution system in Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>The TWG on Safeguards, Governance and Benefit Distribution consists of following members:<br \/>\n\u2022 Watershed Management Division, Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 Bhutan Trust Fund for Environment Conservation<br \/>\n\u2022 Royal Society for Protection of Nature<br \/>\n\u2022 College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan<br \/>\n\u2022 Department of Macro-economic affairs, Ministry of Finance<br \/>\n\u2022 Social Forestry and Extension Division, Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWG on Strategy Options<\/strong><br \/>\nThis TWG will be responsible to lead discussions and generate proposals for strategy options to implement REDD+ activities in Bhutan through a consultative process, including the design of demonstration activities, for subsequent review by the Taskforce.<\/p>\n<p>The TWG on Strategy Options consists of following members:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Social Forestry and Extension Division, Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 Nature Conservation Division, Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 Forest Protection and Enforcement Division, Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 Ugyen Wangchuk Institute of Conservation, Environment and Research (UWICER), Department of Forests &amp; Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 Department of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 National Soil Services Center, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Forests<br \/>\n\u2022 Natural Resources Development Corporation Limited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REDD+ Taskforce will oversee the work of three TWGs. The three groups are: \u2022 TWG on National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) and Reference Emission Levels (RELs)\/ Reference Levels (RLs) \u2022 TWG on Safeguards, Governance and Benefit Distribution \u2022 TWG on Strategy Options TWG on NFMS and RELs\/ RLs This TWG supports the (1) design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redd.dofps.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}