Forestry Officers At Asean CHM Training
By Rosh Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - A One-Day training session on Asean Forest Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) was held at the Forest Department on Thursday, to promote, and familiarise the participants on, the use of the CHM as a tool for forestry-related knowledge and information sharing.

The session was organised and conducted by the Asean-German Regional Forest Programme (ReFOP) for officers and staff of the Forestry Department, as part of the CHM Roadshow.

Unlike other internet services, the CHM was developed primarily to enable Asean member countries to manage forestry related information systematically, while improving the users' interaction by allowing them to upload and download information from or into the system, and to comment on documents in order to facilitate information exchange as well as communication among the users.

The training will expedite further the information exchange network between the Brunei Forestry Department and other Asean members, foreign agencies and international institutions within the Asean CHM framework.

It is also part of the department's programme under its human resource development strategy in building up staff capacity by making use of CHM facilities as information sources, and in initiating activities under the Asean Cooperation in Forestry. The CHM was officially launched at the 8th Meeting of Asean Senior Officials on Forestry (ASOF) on August 18, 2005 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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