Training Plan on Forest Governance in Valle del Cauca

With the support of the Forest Governance Positioning Project in Colombia PPGFC, was held the closing workshop “Training Plan on Forest Governance for the environmental authority of Valle del Cauca CVC – 2014”. The workshop took place from November 24th to 26th, at the campsite of the University of Tolima in Bajo Calima, a town ship of Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca.

During the workshop, which was attended by seventeen (17) technicians and professionals of CVC, a review of the following protocols was done:

-Review and Assessment of Forest Management Plans;

-Control and Monitoring of Forest Land Use,

-Control and surveillance on Mobilization of Forest Products; and

-Control and Monitoring of Forest Industries and Companies (Transformation and commerce).

Besides, the attendees visited a plot of land of the University of Tolima and the natural forests of Bajo Calima, in order to articulate the statistical exercises with the interpretation of the silviculture treatments for the forest. Also, the checkpoint of CVC in Buenaventura, called Los Pinos was visited, there, attendees were able to understand the dynamics of the checkpoint and the reason why is one of the places in Colombia with more re-mobilization of safe-conducts.

Furthermore, the group went to El Pinal – Cascajal, in Buenaventura, where timber is unloaded. There, a practice of control and monitoring for deposits was executed and, technical questions about how to handle the Book of Forest Operations (LOF), National Safe-Conducts and, mobilization guides from ICA were solved.

In order to assist the CVC in the process of implementing the plan of training on technical tools developed by the project to support the activities of control and surveillance in the different steps in the forest chain, the PPGFC team has given over the last three years, a total of twenty (23) trainings with the participation of technicians and professionals in charge of forest control, such as of the Corporation, the National Police, Mounted Police, the Colombian Navy and the Highway Patrol Police.

The Forest Governance Positioning Project is funded by the European Union and led by CARDER, in association with Corantioquia, Corpocaldas, CRC, Codechocó, Corponariño, Corponor, CRQ, Cortolima, Corpourabá, CVC, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Asocars and Aldea Global.