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REDD+ countries are required to monitor the state of forests, review related policies, and measure greenhouse gas emissions/removal through their forest monitoring systems. This can be done through the collection of field-based information and use of advanced technologies, such as remote-sensing. Each country needs to find an optimal combination based on its national capacity.

A workshop^[1] on forest monitoring was held for five days in Cambodia in September, to which five Asian countries (Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea) were invited.

Three government officials and one national staff member from F-REDD participated in the workshop and introduced the forest monitoring system of Lao PDR. They also assessed the current forest monitoring system with a tool prepared by GFOI^[2] and discussed which activities will be priorities in the future.

After the workshop, the participants started planning a session to share what they learned and discuss future forest monitoring with their colleagues. F-REDD will also take advantage of this momentum to accelerate our support for forest monitoring by Lao PDR.

Lao participants developing a diagram that shows their forest monitoring system.