Thematic Areas
08/11/2019
October golden sunshine shining the Ra Dư pearl rice and sparkling the joy of Cơ Tu people, Hương Nguyên commune. On October 12th, a consultant from the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) visited the Ra Dư rice field flowering on acacia land that is owned by Hồ Thị Bê’s household (Y Rí […]
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 […]
09/09/2019
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 […]
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 […]