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developed. It is hoped that these will allow monitoring of ungulates within an  occupancy framework. Protocols have also been developed for monitoring  Nomascus gibbon within CarBi project sites.      Intermediate result 1.4  On an annual basis as of project start, the effectiveness of the patrolling and  Management Information System (MIST) has been externally verified and validated.  Progress  Draft TOR for external evaluator has been developed, and verification is planned for  June 2012    Intermediate result 1.5  By 12 months after project start: MIST and all ranger stations are established and fully  operational.  Progress  The MIST systems in the three protected areas in Vietnam (Hue Saola NR,  Quangnam Saola NR and Bach Ma NP) are up and running, but some adaptive  management will be applied to ensure that best practice is established and pursued  with the assistance from the PA and Law Enforcement Technical Advisors.   Challenges and solutions   Under the informal internal review by the Technical Advisor for the MIST system in  Hue Saola NR, the MIST is showing some obvious errors in the data calibration and  its basic application which, if addressed, will increase the effectiveness and  efficiency of the system significantly.     It is planned that a MIST expert will be recruited to calibrate and improve the MIST  system in February2012. A CarBi wide Regional Law Enforcement and MIST  Strategy is also being developed to ensure consistency and high quality throughout  the operational domain.    Intermediate result 1.6  By 18 months after project start: Management plans for the saola Nature Reserves  have been developed and appraised as well as revised for Bach Ma National Park  respectively.    Planning towards this intermediate result has been initialized. Management  planning includes functional Zonation and Conservation Needs Assessment. ToR’s  for the management planning and zonation consultants have been drafted and they    12 
will be recruited in January 2012.  A National planning team has been identified and  the planning framework and schedule agreed upon with the relevant role players.    Intermediate result 1.7  By end of the project: One sustainable financing mechanism will have been developed  per Protected Area.    Although no specific action has been taken regarding this intermediate Result yet,  the unlocking of the potential of the Protected Areas and related corridors to “sell”  ecosystem services, more specifically watershed services, is a matter which will be  explored with the relevant authorities. Some informal discussions have been  conducted in this regard. The same principle applies to the tourism potential of the  PAs . Interest has also been expressed in conducting “conservation tourism” where  tourists accompany Forest Guards on patrols (conditionally). “Scientific tourism”,  where tourists accompany biologists on specific field surveys, may also be an  alternative to explore.     Specific result 2  The Xe Sap National Protected Area is effectively managed  Summary    Planning and preparation for the implementation of the CarBi project started well,  with an MoU between WWF and Government Counterparts signed on 19 July 2011  and a four year work plan agreed to and finalized on 5  August 2011. An NPA office  was established in Saravane in July 2011 and a project management organization  structure at central, provincial and district levels was established on 10 August  2011. Twenty Two government staff were assigned to the NPA while WWF was able  to recruit and train a MIST/GIS Officer, Admin Officer and Finance Officer. VFI was  contracted as service provider/partner to progress the community cooperation and  development goals, and the 10 target villages have been identified in conjunction  with the District Governor’s offices. A protection strategy workshop was held in  October 2011 where a zonation framework and basis for a protection strategy were  developed. Of concern have been the capacity challenges at all levels in Lao. The  project has been without a Landscape Manager from the beginning despite a  number of recruitment attempts. The Protected Area Manager left at the end of  October 2011 and has not been replaced yet. Forest Guard recruitment  (assignment) only took place in December, and will begin patrols in February. Despite this, planning has moved ahead and strides were made in village PRA  methodology development, biodiversity reconnaissance surveys and planning,  infrastructure planning and approvals and trans boundary cooperation.  Importantly, a management planning process was initiated, with process and  structure agreed upon. A Forest Guard training curricula has been agreed upon, and  MIST technical implementation received a boost with agreement to review technical    13 
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