Thematic Areas
03/09/2019
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 […]
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 […]
16/07/2019
The activity had recently taken place in An Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, Quang Binh province organized by the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) belonged to the project “Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change related impacts in Vietnam” on July 1-6. The total number of participants in this […]
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 March 21 2019, the workshop/exchange forum on “Engaging indigenous people and local communities in promoting value chain of biodiversity product” took place at Hue City, Thua Thien Hue Province. The workshop was fund by the Global Environment Fund’s Small Grants Program, United Nations Development Program (UNDP/GEF SGP) and jointly organized by the Center for Research […]
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 […]
11/03/2019
In the morning of January 12 2019 at Big C Hue, the People’s Committee of A Luoi District and Central Group Vietnam (CGV) jointly launched a ceremony to introduce A Luoi indigenous banana, a product of community livelihood project in A Luoi district implemented by CGV with technical consultancy from Centre for Rural Development in […]
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 […]
01/01/2019
The project “Promoting the role of community-based organizations (CBO) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in biodiversity conservation in Central Annamites, Thua Thien Hue Province” will be implemented from 2018 to 2022 in the buffer zones of Bach Ma National Park (Nam Dong district) and Sao La Conservation Area (A Luoi district). The project was coordinated […]