The Bangladesh Forest Information System (BFIS) is the national information system of the Bangladesh Forest Department, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change, for planning, implementing and monitoring forest management and conservation
How It Works
BFIS modules have been organized according to four categories as follow: Development Activities, Management and Conservation, Forest Assessment, and Knowledge Management. The BFIS modules are being progressively updated and developed.
Management and Conservation
The Bangladesh Forest Information System (BFIS) was developed by the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change with the technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funding from the UN-REDD programme and USAID. The BFIS is managed by the Resources Information Management System Unit of BFD.
The BFIS includes different modules/tools for accessing, adding, and updating information related to forest resource management. Modules are organised according to four categories (1) development activities, (2) management and conservation, (3) forest assessment, and (4) knowledge management. The different modules provide information for BFD personnel to update information about forest management and planning, archive, visualize and download geospatial and other forest related data and encourage data and knowledge sharing between national entities.
What BFIS Offers
Information on existing human resources within the forest department
Information about the on-going project, their objectives, intervention areas
National plans and targets for the forestry sector
Information about social forestry activities including beneficiaries, plantations, benefit distributions
Information on the status of forest legal cases related to the disturbance on forest land
Standardized wildlife observation data under the wildlife circle
Data and information on plantation area, geographical location, species, rotations, etc.
Data and information on the forest nurseries including their locations, availability of seedlings, etc.
Location, maps and other related details of the wildlife sanctuaries, national parks
Information about REDD+ in Bangladesh
Information about the status of forest lands
National e-Government Procurement system integrated budget and accounting system