Natural resource governance and biodiversity conservation
25/02/2020
On February 21, the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University chaired a meeting on forest protection and management planning in 2020 at a community house in Mu Nam village, Thuong Lo commune, Nam Dong district (Thua Thien Hue province). The meeting is under the framework of […]
20/01/2020
It can be said that the 2019 year is a remarkable year of the project “Strengthening the role of communities and civil society organizations in conservation in Central Truong Son” (referred as the SIDA project) implementing in Thua Thien Hue province with the study site of the buffer zone of Bach Ma National Park. The […]
06/01/2020
In December 12-13, the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), Hue University of Agriculture and Rural Development organized the training course on “Introduction of Legal Documents on Legal Timber” in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province in the collaboration with Dong Nai Department of Industry and Trade and Center for Education and Development […]
26/11/2019
On 21-22 November, Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) in collaboration with Center for Education and Development (CED) and Quang Tri VPA-FLEGT Support Group organized the training course “Introduction of Legal Timber Requirements ” in Dong Ha City, Quang Tri Province. The target audiences of the training course are officers from the state […]
09/09/2019
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 […]
08/08/2019
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 […]
30/07/2019
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: […]
30/07/2019
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 […]
05/07/2019
Recently, successful prevention of numerous cases of illegal forest exploitation and encroachment has been considered as one of the outstanding results in forest management and development in Thuong Lo commune (Nam Dong district), as reported at the preliminary review meeting in the first six months of 2019 on June 19th. Participants are the chairman […]
23/04/2019
Recently, A Luoi District Youth Union, with technical consultation from the Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), organized 4 sessions to disseminate the knowledge of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) exploitation for forest management household groups in Huong Nguyen commune. 100 participants from 22 household groups of biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management in […]
31/03/2019
On February 21 2019 in Thuong Lo commune, Nam Dong district, the Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry conducted a meeting to make plan for forest management and protection the focus of which was on the promotion of forest patrolling and rattan caring. The meeting was within […]
27/01/2019
Background After six years of negotiations, on 11 May 2017 Vietnam and the EU inttialled the text of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (VPA/FLEGT), this marks the formal conclusion of the negotiations. VNFOREST is now working on the deailed design and guidance for the Organnization Classification System (OCS), an […]