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Overcoming challenges to community participation in the monitoring of Vietnam’s Emission Reduction Programme (ER-P)

A dialogue to discuss and listen to solutions from governmental agencies to enhance community’s participation in independent monitoring of the Vietnam’s Emission Reduction Programme (ER-P) was held in December 19 2018 in Hue City.      An overview of the dialogue The dialogue was attended by 20 representatives of forest protection communities/groups in Huong Nguyen commune, […]

Huong Nguyen Commune: 30 households piloting Ra Du specialty rice cultivation model

Recently, the Youth’s Union of A Luoi District, Thua Thien Hue Province in collaboration with the Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam has introduced techniques of Ra Du rice cultivationin dry fields to the people in Huong Nguyen commune. Legend has it that given to the people by Giang and grown in mountain fields, […]

Signing Ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding on training for livelihood development

In the afternoon of May 10, 2018, the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) and Central Group Vietnam took place at Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry. The MOU signing ceremony between CRD Vietnam and Central Group This is an important co-operation aimed at […]

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc tells G20 int’l cooperation vital to climate change fight

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc tells G20 int’l cooperation vital to climate change fight Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered a strong plea for international cooperation in fighting climate change while addressing a panel discussion of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7. Leaders of G20, guest countries and international organisations pose for a […]

Consultation workshops on Promising Livelihood Models

On 8-9 Agust 2017, precided over by both CRD and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 02 consultation workshops on “Promising livelihood models in the bufferzones of Nature Reserves and protected areas in Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam provinces” took place in Hue and Tam Ky. The workshops were within the “Livelihood needs assessment and […]

Effective disease-free chicken raising model  

The disease-free chicken raising model has helped the people in Thuong Nhat and Huong Loc communes change their livestock practices and reduce risks. These are positive signals showing the effectiveness of livelihoods development through the project loan funded by the Global Environment Facility in Vietnam (GEF) and the consultations from the Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam […]

“Green forest dream” Painting Festival in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province

On June 28th, 2016 at the 24/3 Square (Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province), the FLEGT Project in the central region in collaboration with HoChiMinh Communist Youth Union of Tam Ky city ogarnized painting festival on the theme of “Green forest dream”. Representing more than 14,000 local children and teenagers, 100 pupils and students from 24 primary and secondary […]

Creating economic motivation of households from credit fund for livelihood development

On May 6, a consultation workshop on regulations of credit fund management and utilization and on development of livelihood improvement models took place in Thuong Nhat and Huong Loc Communes, Nam Dong District, Thua Thien Hue Province.  The workshop was held by Center for Environment and Community Development (CECoD) in collaboration with local authorities and […]

FLEGT Project Planning Workshop

On 22 and 23 of March 2016 at Hue City, the FLEGT Project in the Central Region in collaboration with Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) and Consultative and Research Center on Natural Resources Management (CORENARM) hold a workshop to summarize the project activities in Year 2 and to plan for Year 3.

Kick-off ceremony of Project “Developing model of sustainable livelihoods”

On March 4, 2016, the project “Enhancing capacity on developing models of sustainable livelihoods to minimize dependence on special-use forests in the buffer zone of Bach Ma National Park” officially kicked off.

Pilot model of wood processing enterprises meeting requirements of timber legality assurance system (TLAS) in VPA/FLEGT process

In order to equip wood processing enterprises in the Central region with sufficient capacity and conditions to participate in VPA/FLEGT process, the FLEGT Project in Central region in collaboration with the Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), Department for Forest Protection of Quang Tri Province, related stakeholders and wood processing enterprises in Quang […]

Developing communication materials on Climate Change Adaptation 

On November 13 2015, the consultation workshop on “Documenting communication initiatives and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Climate Change” was held in Hanoi by the Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community