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Consultation on the draft Decree of Vietnam’s Timber Legality Assurance System

On August 28, the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) hosted a consultation workshop to obtain comments and perspectives on the draft Decree of Vietnam’s Timber Legality Assurance System at 09 Ngo Quyen street (Hue city). The whole workshop More than forty participants are representatives of Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST), Thua Thien […]

Monitoring and giving instruction for taking care of Homalomena under natural forest canopy

Taking care of Homalomena On August 23, consultants from the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) monitored and instructed the forest management and protection groups 1 and 3 in Mù Nú Tà Rá hamlet to take care of Homalomena in the community forest area of Hương Nguyên commune, A Lưới district, Thừa Thiên […]

Launching Children’s Rights Advisory Board and Legal Aid Club

After nearly one year cherishing the ideas, on September 4, Kim Long ward (Hue city) officially launched the Advisory Board and Legal Aid Club on Children’s Rights at the locality. Launching the Children’s Rights Advisory Board The Chairman of Kim Long ward People’s Committee announced the establishment of a legal aid advisory board and a […]

NO school violence, My dear school

School is a place cultivating minds, and nourishing souls and morality of students. It is also a place keeping lots of good school life memories. Therefore, it would be painful if there still exists any act or threat of violence causing distress, injuries and harms in somewhere, both inside and outside the classroom.   The […]

New Strategy, New Spirit

During August 17-18, the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) had successfully organized a training workshop on “Strategy Development for the period of 2020-2024 and development of cultural values for all the managers and officers” in Dong Hoi city, Quang Binh province. During the two-day training workshop, the CRD’s managers and officers were […]

Small Loans Big Hope for poor farmers in Huong Nguyen commune

On the first day of July, we drove over Kim Quy pass to Chi Du Nghia village (A Luoi district) to visit models of semi-intensive cow farming. We followed Mr. Tran Van Xay (37 years old) when he took cows out of the cow barn to find more grass on field. On the grass scented […]

Announcement: Extension of Deadline for Application Submission

  The Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam is looking for a consultant to conduct a training course on “Policy advocacy on child rights”, which expectedly takes place on September 12-13, 2019. Please find the attached TOR 2 for more details. In this regard, we would like to extend the deadline for application submission for carrying out […]

Announcement: Extension of Deadline for Application Submission

The Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam is looking for a consultant to consult on the application of information technology in organizational management and support in G Suite migration to Office 365. Please find the attached ToR_Ung dung CNTT vao quan tri to chuc – Thong bao gia han for more details. In this regard, […]

Launching the support group to implement VPA-FLEGT Agreements in Dong Nai province

On July 31, the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), the Center for People and Environment in the Central Highlands, and Dong Nai Provincial Forest Protection Department (FPD) jointly organized a launching ceremony “Support Group to implement Voluntary Partnership Agreements on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (VPA-FLEGT) in Dong Nai province”. This […]

Manual on establishing the network of civil society organizations to monitor and support the implementati on of VNTLAS and OCS

This document proposes the process of establishing a network of local civil society organizations (VPA local network – VPAL), standard operating procedures to help related organizations perform their responsibilities thus effectively support local wood SMEs and IHBs during the CRD-CED-COPE 1 implementation of VPA/FLEGT as well as maintaining a sustainable network. Specifically, this document helps: […]

Rapid assessment report on capacity building needs of stakeholders at provincial level

Rapid assessment report on capacity building needs of stakeholders at provincial level to support enterprises in their compliance with the legality definition, Vietnam timber legality assurance system and organization classification system. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The survey on SMEs’ ability to meet timber legality requirements and the rapid assessment report on technical capacity building needs of stakeholders at […]

Planting… Seeds of Soul

On July 22, a meaningful communication activity on “School Violence Prevention” took place at the North Central Youth Center (Dong Hoi city, Quang Binh province) to help children manage their emotions and nurture their positive emotions. This activity was organized by the Centre for Rural Development in the Central Vietnam (CRD), Hue University of Agriculture […]