Ulaanbaatar
"Mongolian forestry will be staffed by professionals"
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the Ministries of Labor and of Environment, Green Development and Tourism was inked by Ministers G.Bayarsaikhan and N.Battsereg October 20.
This has been done in frames of the implementation of “Green Development Policy”, adopted in 2014, and in order to accelerate a realization of “Employed and Well-Paid Mongolian” national program, issued in 2013.
With the signing of MoU, the Ministry of Labor is to undertake responsibilities for determining the required staff and specialists in accordance with the demand in the environmental sphere, collaborating in the staffing process, organizing job fairs, co-hosting trainings for forest friendships and labor unions, preparing cadres for watering and maintaining planted forests, said G.Bayarsaikhan. "Only eight percent of Mongolia’s territory is covered by forests. This 1.2-million ha reduction is a result of a deterioration and human factors," he underlined.
The Minister of Environment, Green Development and Tourism N.Battsereg said his Ministry will be responsible for involving both public and private sectors' staff in the required training on sustainable development, green growth, green work environment and other associated themes; for enhancing the data- collecting and -processing methodologies in green workplaces; conducting pilot studies and ensuring collective between state organizations, civil society and friendship for environment protection.
The MoU also outlines a preparation of forest specialists in vocational training centers in Bulgan, Zavkhan, Selenge, Khovsgol and Khentii aimags, an assistance to formation of new laboratories and installation of new equipment in those centers, a promotion of new specialist to trainings in developed countries and to well-receiving jobs.
According to N.Battsereg, there are more than 1,500 friendships for forest conservation, of which less than ten percent are professionally staffed.
