As many locals in the region rely on their farming for food and income, it has been crucial for Save the Children’s CBA project to support the implementation of geographically suitable alternative livelihood models and increase villagers’ knowledge of locally relevant adaptive farming and animal rearing techniques. This approach lays the foundation for sustainable adaptation that builds resilience in the community and opens up opportunities for the diversification of livelihood methods, which may reduce exposure to risk and market volatility.

Nguyen Xuan Thong lives in Thang Binh district of Quang Nam with his wife and five children. His youngest is 11 and attending school. Another of his children has a disability and must stay at home. To support his family Thong has been farming rice and raising pigs with limited success. He finds it difficult to keep his pigs healthy and gaining weight in light of the severity of the weather in his province.

When Thong’s son participated in the project’s climate change resilience activities at school he passed on the information he was learning to his family. The knowledge and understanding Thong gained about how climate change can contribute to certain diseases and the factors that can affect the health of his family and community compelled him to register for the new livelihood models project running in his community.

In addition to receiving one sow and 50 percent of the costs to build a pig pen, Thong and his wife also attended training sessions with staff from the Agriculture Extension Centre and other villagers. In these sessions they learned techniques to ensure their pigs could thrive despite the changing weather. These included building the pig pen with sloping floors and north- or south-facing to avoid cross breezes; the separation of the piglets from their mother; adding a light to warm piglets; cutting down sharp teeth; and the neutering of male pigs when they are five days old, which allows them to grow faster. This training has all contributed to the increased wellbeing of Thong’s livestock, so that they are healthier, reach maturation and can be sold for meat at a good price.

Thong learned the techniques and building requirements that enabled him to use his pig waste to produce biogas – a sustainable energy source – through the installation of a biogas digester. Each day his pigs produce five to six hours’ worth of gas, which has saved the family time and money as well as saving countless trees because Thong no longer needs to go to the forest and cut down trees for firewood.

As a result of the family’s achievements, three other families have replicated the model utilising their own means. To ensure that his neighbours have accurately set-up their new waste treatment centre and pig pens, Thong regularly visits to check out their work, communicate his expertise and share experiences and lessons learned.

When asked whether he would prefer to be given additional technical trainings or another sow, Thong explained that he would favour the skill-set training as he finds this to be far more useful to his family both now and into the future.
Through training local villagers with the skills required to adapt to climate change in a locally-relevant way, the members of this community are being introduced to skill development, livelihood diversification and strengthening of existing livelihoods ensuring they are more sustainable and cost effective, and that they can increase income, inspire confidence and encourage community ownership to achieve resilience.

Save the Children

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In order to raise the schools’ capacity and active role in self-protection, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen Chapters did not conduct the DRA themselves but instead let the school do it while the VNRC chapters assisted them. The evaluation team of each school includes 10 members selected from the school disaster management boards. These are the teachers who participated in Safe school training courses organized by German Red Cross and the 2 VNRC Chapters from November 2014 to February 2015. Safe school is not only a crucial topic for teachers and students, but also for the parents. Therefore, in order to conduct DRA comprehensively, in total, 210 teachers, 210 students and 210 parents from the 7 primary schools have been directly involved in the assessment.

[Nhon Binh no.1 primary school (Quy Nhon city)] Teachers, students and their parents discussing on the history of natural disasters at the school and the surrounding area with the facilitation of the teachers who are in the school evaluation team

Mr. Vo Chi – Head of Parent Association of Hai Cang primary school, shared that: “The local people sometimes do not understand clearly about disasters, risks, and damages. These activities really helped us widen our knowledge. Moreover, when disasters occur, children are usually mentally shocked. I think this assessment did prepare for the children to actively respond when disasters come. In addition, I think it is always true that if we have disaster preparedness and response (DP&R) plan, we can respond better and more actively so as to reduce damages caused by natural disasters.”

Mr. Vo Chi (second from the right) with the teachers, other parents and students conducting “Operation calendar” tool which aims at listing the different hazards and the different school activities occurring during the calendar year.

Ms. Pham Thi Thu Ha, an art teacher, eagerly shared that “The DRA is such a rare activity that teachers, parents, and students cooperated with each other to implement. I found that the children and their parents participated in the evaluation very actively and they really enjoyed it. I wish there would have more activities like this for teachers, students and parents to learn from each other.” She also talked about how the assessment changed her thoughts and behaviours: “As an art teacher, I was not interested in integrating the topic of DP&R in my lessons. From now on, I will actively integrate this topic into my lessons in order to guide my students what to do and not to do in DP&R”.

Ms.Ha (orange shirt ) with the students and parents drawing maps showing the different risks and vulnerabilities of Hai Cang primary school and the surrounding areas

Teachers, parents and students of Hai Cang primary school developing the “problem tree” to identify the school’s risks

Overview of meeting on DRA introduction at Hoang Quoc Viet primary school (Quy Nhon city)

Based on the assessment’s results, the school disaster management boards together with the teachers have developed their annual safe school plan. The plans propose structural and non-structural measures such as establishment of water filter systems or repairing electricity systems, etc. in order to ask for the involvement and support of the Departments of Education & Training, local authorities, other external organisations and donors to build safe school model more effectively.

Although during the DRAs the school evaluation teams have showed their limitations in methodology, assessment tools, information collecting skills,…the schools and parents did express their high appreciation to the activity as well as their enthusiastic participation. In short, this activity remains a good initiative which showed that the school communities (Board, teachers, students, parents…) are taking now an active role in assessing, planning and building safer schools. This is one of the significant achievements of the FPP in the school sector since empowerment of the project beneficiaries is a critical step in building safer schools during natural disasters as well as in general./.

Bui Thi Minh Chau
GRC PO in Binh Dinh

The main purpose of the model is the application of appropriate farming techniques (determine the appropriate calendar, use good varieties and take care by suitable techniques) to promote rice to grow well in the seedling stage to avoid cold and frost in the flowering stage. It helps increase rice yield in the winter-spring crop. The project has supported the farmers with agricultural materials, training and technical guidance. During the four months of implementation, knowledge on seed selection, calendar determination, weeding, caring, watering, detection and effective disease prevention has been supported continuously.

Despite facing many difficulties in the process of implementing the model, e.g., prolonged cold and frost, people are not familiar with technical application in rice cultivation. Methods of growing rice adapting to climate change has been too difficult to understand for the locals. However, good organization, management and implementation mobilized the active participation of people who now understand and comply with the requirements of the project to minimize the risk of the adverse weather conditions.

After four months of implementation, people know how to classify and use varieties, to keep varieties, weed, feed fertilizer properly and use irrigation water efficiently, and the work of combating rats has also been transferred successfully. Mr. Pham Van Dot, team leader of the model told us, “The model helped us understand the effectiveness of technical application in rice cultivation. Applying techniques brought the real effectiveness beyond our expectations. Rice yields were estimated at 2.5-3 quintal per sao”, he added “Application of new varieties (KD18) brought out higher yields by 50-60% compared to the old ones, strong and healthy rice resistance to pests and diseases. The proper use of irrigation water is more effective during droughts and increased the efficiency of fertilizer. Application of nylon prevented the disturbance of rats better than before”. According to Mr. Pham Van Kem, head village of Con Ro, the model showed new or good ideas compared to the previous thinking. The previous models only cared about productivity and pay less attention to prevention techniques under the adverse weather conditions. He said, “people following the model learned that their paddy fields have less grass and diseases and they no longer worry about the disturbance of rats and gain more rice, …”

During the coordination and direction during the implementation of the model, project officers and local officers learned valuable lessons in directing and guiding the implementation of production activities. According to Mrs. Le Thi Tram, vice president of Ba Bich CPC, the enthusiastic and responsible support of project officers not only helped households who implemented the model grow rice well but also improves qualifications and technical transfer method of communal agriculture officers in the context of adverse weather and climate change. Mrs. Tram recommends that the project continue to support the summer-autumn crop so that other people in other villages also can benefit.

After overcoming the initial difficulties, the results obtained from the model are very good. Villagers and local authorities are happy that the project had appropriate approach methods and brought high efficiency to rice production in their locality. On behalf of beneficiaries, Mr. Pham Van Dot emotionally gives thanks for the help of Plan International, Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam and authorities at all levels for facilitating his group to have such a good harvest as today. Mr. Dot as well as the group commit to continue sharing knowledge and experience in the process of implementing the model with other people in the community and expects that the project will continue providing technical assistance in the next crop to the group and people not currently received the benefits.

Not only the model in Ba Bich commune but also other models in Ba Dinh, Ba To and Ba Xa communes have achieved good results and people also have the same comments and thoughts as Ba Bich commune. With this initial success, it is hopefully that people and local authorities will continue to maintain, share and replicate the project achievements to other households in the villages and communes. Groups of households directly implementing the model in Winter-Spring crop will be the important nucleus for other people to visit and learn. From that, the activity of growing rice in this locality is increasingly effective and adapts well to the context of climate change.

Do Cao Anh and Phan Cong Tam
Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam

Some pictures of harvesting rice models

The four communes of Ba Bich, Ba Dinh, Ba To and Ba Xa of Ba To district, Quang Ngai province are implementing project activities of the program “Child-centered climate change adaptation in Vietnam” supported by Plan International. Not only did the project provide support to build the sheds but also it focused on guidance and support of husbandry techniques for farmers.

The practice of building food reserves, especially reserves of rice straw for cattle in the cold rainy season, has not previously attracted special attention in the mountain region. Following practices of backward husbandry, grazing year round, building temporary sheds without roof, and feeding with only natural grass in forests and hills, each year many cattle died from hunger when the cold rainy seasons came. In addition to supporting the construction of sheds, the project has also cooperated with the local authorities to integrate and organize multiple sessions. The purpose of this is to share experiences directly with households the technical guidance of collecting rice straw, developing stack of straw and reserving food for cattle in the cold rainy season.

People rarely have practiced the habit of collecting straw to reserve food for cattle, but often burn straw in the field or discharge causing environmental pollution, even while cattle do not have enough food. To help people change their habits, the project officer organized many meetings to share experiences on husbandry, guide households how to collect and dry straw, and how to build stacks of straw efficiently to ensure the straw will not rot.

With the method of hands-on and on-the-spot guidance, the project officers went to the field to guide the ways to dry and collect straw before the harvest. When finishing the work of the rice thresher, the straw should be collected and dried. The workplace for building a stack of straw must be at high position and have drainage. Bamboo for supporting in building the stack must be strong. When building, the straw should be spread evenly and compacted. The ridge of straw stack should be covered by buckets or plastic bags to protect from rotting by rainwater. Using these methods, households can actively feed for cattle in the cold rainy season.

Mrs. Pham Thi Henh of Mang Mu village, Ba Xa commune said that she was previously accustomed to grazing buffalos on the mountain and faced the fear of they could die of cold and hunger when the rainy season comes. However, if she called them back home, there was still no food for them. From the experience of being guided in the ways to collect and dry straw by this project, in winter she can now safely bring them back to be confined in buffalo-sheds without worrying about their hunger.

Her family has four buffalos, and thanks to this approach, her buffalos this year grow relatively well and food sources are available year round. “I reserve straw twice a year, one from winter-spring and the other from summer-autumn crop. Many rural households raising buffalos not only take advantages of their straw but also offer the others to reserve”.

Photo: People know how to develop a stack of straw

Mr. Pham Van Don at Nuoc Lang village, Ba Dinh commune said that the local people don’t have habits of developing a stack of straw because they often graze buffalos on the mountain and rarely bring them back home. In addition, they don’t know how to develop the stack of straw according to the right way so straw often becomes rotten and mouldy and could not be used. From the time of being guided by the project in the techniques of collecting straw and developing a stack of straw, now straw are better preserved in cold season and Mr. Pham no longer worries about lack of food.

Ba To is a mountainous district with a large number of cattle. The number of cattle is currently about 64,000 head including more than 30,000 head of buffalos and cows. The number of households with 2-3 buffalos are very common here. Husbandry farmers have recognized the value of buffalos and cows so most of them make sheds to confine the animals. “Today, the propaganda is much easier and people’s perceptions on food storage and shielding sheds for cattle in winter has become a habit” – said by Mr. Pham Van Luong – Chairman of CPC Ba Dinh.

Mr. Dinh Nam Oang, Chairman of Ba Xa CPC said that “Ba Xa is one of the remote and difficult areas of Ba To and the people living here have faced many difficulties. However, the support of International Plan has helped the local people change their habits of cattle grazing and knowing how to reserve straw. This is a big change and improvement.

The initial support of the project has contributed to positive changes in husbandry practices of Hre farmers in the highland district of Ba To. People know how to raise cattle in sheds and not to graze freely, and how to reserve food to feed cattle in the rainy season, etc. These positive changes contribute to changing habits of the backward husbandry practices of Hre ethnic people, increase household income, help reduce poverty and promote husbandry development in the region.

Phan Cong Tam
Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD)

The main goal of this training was to provide the how-to knowledge to build up a safe school for the school staff, especially for the school Disaster Risk Management (DRM) board. The safe school model is made of several steps which can be summarize as (1) common awareness-raising activities, (2) school Disaster Risk Assessment (DRA), (3) participatory school Disaster Risk Management planning and (4) promoting the interest of school managers in developing a safe school.

A teacher presents her group discussion’s results on the risks, vulnerabilities and capacities of her school and the recommendations to build a safe school (Hai Cang primary school – Quy Nhon city)

Post training interviews showed that the participants, especially the school managers really valued receiving safe school-related knowledge and highlighted the change in their awareness in terms of school safety. They thus expressed their commitment in developing the safe school model to their schools, including mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management-related knowledge and skills in school curriculum in the future.

Mr. Truong Dinh Long – a teacher of Nhon Binh no. 2 primary school (Quy Nhon) shared that “The training is very useful for my teaching. I would like to integrate the knowledge I obtained into lessons at school so that my students will also know about safe school model and be able to protect themselves in case of natural disasters. Personally, due to this training course, I think my life becomes more interesting because I learnt new knowledge.” In addition, Mr Dao Thanh Tung, a vice principal and a deputy manager of the school DRM board of the school Le Quy Don in Ward 1, Tuy Hoa, also emphasized: “We will frequently integrate the safe school-related knowledge where possible in order to increase the students’ awareness in DRM leading to school safety”.

Training class for teachers of Bach Dang primary school – Ward 6, Tuy Hoa city

Moreover, Ms. Huynh Thi Kim Thanh, a teacher of Hoang Quoc Viet primary school (Quy Nhon city) said that: “Thanks to the training, now I know how to make a Disaster preparedness (DP) plan for a school in order to find solutions for better preparation, response and recovery from a disaster. I also learnt how to use DRA tools to assess school’s disaster risks, which provide important inputs for building up a safe school.”

Closing session of the training for teachers of Hai Cang primary school – Quy Nhon city

After the safe school training, each project primary school in Quy Nhon and Tuy Hoa cities will conduct a Disaster Risk Assessment in their school, a critical step to identify and understand disaster risks of the schools and build a safe school.

Bui Thi Minh Chau
GRC PO in Binh Dinh

Duy Tan commune is not far from My Son Sanctuary – a world cultural heritage site about 5km to the north that lies on the southern bank of Thu Bon river with many types of war damage. The commune was densely filled by many memorial sites. The commune had a total population of only 6000 but had 1500 soldiers killed in action and 129 Vietnam heroic mothers. From the past to now, this area has considered agriculture to be the key sector as the others are relatively less developed.

Like many residents in Quang land, Mr. Vo Dinh Trung (living at Thu Bon Tay village, Duy Tan commune, Duy Xuyen district) was born in the period of divided nation, dedicated with their youthful enthusiasm to the national liberation and reunification. Surviving in the war and coming back to the motherland, he was seriously wounded, having lost his leg at the battlefield and suffered many injures.

Mr. Trung is always hauntingly worried about how to improve his family’s standard of living and raise his children when his beloved wife was required to be the breadwinner. While the area along Thu Bon river has experienced vulnerabilities due to climate change, increasing floods and droughts, abnormal changes of climate as the previous pasturing is no longer adequate due to being at high risk of epidemics.

Approaching the technique
Identification of raising chicken is a popular activity, suitable for most types of rural households, especially the poor households because of low investment and easy to consume products. The project “Child-centered climate change adaptation” surveyed and developed the model “backyard native chicken adapting to climate change” in Quang Nam province.

On April 2014, the project meeting introduced its objectives and household selection criteria reached Duy Tan commune. This was the first time Mr. Trung heard about the strange concept of climate change and raising chickens adapted to climate change. But then, with the determination of constant desire to reduce the burden on his beloved, and to make “the leg disability not disable”, he registered to implement the raising chicken model of the project.

A few weeks later, a project officer came to his house to survey and evaluate his family’s capacity. To be chosen for funding for developing the model, he was supported with 50 chickens, some kinds of food, means to take care for and some materials for building a coop. Most importantly, Mr. Trung was trained and guided in the techniques for building coop, selecting the breeding, and raising chickens in accordance to adapting to climate change.

We visited his family on an early summer day after a flood earlier in the month with the outdoor temperature of 39-400C. Standing under the shady and fresh frames of gourds and Thiên Lý flower (Telosma cordata) with many coconut leaves, Mr. Trung said that “Thanks to the front playground system, the coop surrounded by 2m high fence of bamboo with B40 aerated net; vines planted on the top so it could be protected against the heat in summer, hot weather, and supply daily vegetables and fruits. This frame system helps chickens have a cool playground in harsh summer days and increase feed intake and achieve better growth. Vines frame plays a role as green food supply with additional natural vitamin and cellulose for chicken”.

In addition to completing the building coop process under the guidance of the project consultant, Mr. Trung also vaccinated with vaccine, disinfected the coop to ensure chicken agile, healthy and shiny feathers… thus its vital resistant and resistant to abnormal changes of weather are very good. On sunny days, he feeds chicken with vitamin C. He also collects waste and treats it by microbial enzymes to reduce odors and bacteria.

First season of sweet fruit
Previously, Mr. Trung’s family raised pastured chickens which themselves dig to find food. The rate of chicken deaths ranged from 30-40%, and only a few survived. Since application of the model, rate of death is very low, about 5-10%. Only after three-month raising, his chicken flock was averaging 1.5-2kg in weight, less disease with the survival rate up to 90%, rapid growth, and delicious chicken meat compared to grazing Ri chicken. From the first breeding, now his flock has divided into 3 ages including baby chick, cockerel and reproduction chicken. Until the time we visited, his flock had produced more than 200 eggs and provided two households with food , one of whom is the purchasing household.

From practical experience and lessons-learned from raising chickens, Mr. Trung concluded that “This model was being learned by many people living in the commune. In my opinion, the most important step to achieving good results was to comply with the technical requirements. Yet, during the implementation process, some households had ignored the process, had not built strong coops in accordance to the design so it resulted in low efficiency. Although this is only the “first season of sweet fruit” but in my point of view, this model could be fully replicated”.

Chicken growing well

Mr. Trung feeds chicken in the cool net house

Mr. Trung is thrilled to receive an image-gift from the representative of Save the Children in Vietnam

Bao Hoa
Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD)

During my participation in the project, it could be said in a few words “I’ve changed so much!” In terms of awareness, I no longer think of disaster risk management to be not only the responsibility of the local authority but also the task of every person including those with disabilities and in all countries all over the world. I also changed my perception and evaluation about the participation, presentation of persons with disabilities in activities of disaster risk management because “Disabled person could do many things like the normal persons do if we know how to be friendly, how to motivate and inspire their confidence”.

Regarding the application of training skills and methods  for adults, I first met many obstacles. However, after participating in training of trainers and taking part in training for the local residents of villages, I have changed my thinking and found ways to apply training skills from the project trainers. Finally, I learned the process “experience-based teaching” and flexible application of relevant skills. For example, relevant skills include: coordination skills, asking questions, listening, explanation, using intuitive tools, etc. This helps my trainees as disabled persons, management board and rescue teams of villages understand my speaking. Previously, when I was teaching at high school, I used to apply “group work” method but its efficiency is not high because of not drawing on much experience. When participating in training in the framework of the project, I clearly see the positive aspect when using this method. If utilizing it for group work together with other skills to mobilize the participation of trainees, the proposed training objectives will achieve high efficiency. During my participation in project activities, I also learned more gentle, calm and flexible manner to handle difficult problems that trainees raised during my presentation (learning from Malteser International staff).

The methods of working of Malteser staff has impacted my working in the past and the future: serious when working, enthusiastic and attaching special attention to the audience when training, learning from local residents to progress together.

Nguyen Van Ke, community center staff under CPC Duy Thu, Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province.

The way of communication was rather slow, took so much time, following a really old thread.

In the training courses with the participants of disabilities and families, many questions were raised to test the disaster prevention capacity of the local government.

Flood prevention activities were operated and guided by a non-government organization .

No sympathy for such things…

But something has happened when entering the training course organized by Disaster Management Board, then going to the part of mapping, and meeting to make plans and finally drilling, I totally agree. As for my experience, this training method is very interesting and completely fitted with the audiences. I used to be a soldier on the battlefield and I have experienced many years of advisory work. I did not have any difficulty finding that the planning methods of the project are obviously clear in task assignment. Details are as close to a military plan that I had studied and practiced everyday in the past.

Since then, my uncomfortable feeling for projects has gradually disappeared. My participation changed completely, from no particular interest in the project to voluntarily being involved in and trusting in its operation. I have made use of my knowledge for this project that had never been used before in other projects. I actively encourage my partners of Management Board to study hard to complete the program well. At the part of evaluating the drill results of the whole village, I said half-jokingly “The project does not bring any hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese dongs but it has done much more than that“. When the project started, our village leaders and I did not trust it very much. Since it has completed, it can obviously be seen that it has made a lot of changes in my awareness and risk management methods. It has a part in reducing the burden and stress of village leaders, including the Storm and Flood Prevention Management Board of the commune in terms of annual disaster prevention.  They are:

• Operation of Management Board of the flooding risk across the country is close and coherent. Yearly plan can be easily adjusted based on tools and diagrams in the plan appendix;
• Cooperation among members is in a harmonious way. Risk management network is broad and close throughout the countryside;
• Management of flood prevention from the commander to concrete teams has been shared gently and effectively;
• Telecommunication service for operation, coordination and reporting has been given special attention to be faster and better;
• Personnel and media for first aid and rescue have initially met the needs of the village.
• The four on-spot motto is totally clear now.

I talk about this to everyone honestly. Sometimes the fear of losing so much time on something, people may be narrow-minded or too watchful over something, they often lose their friendliness. Or sometimes, they still want to go on the familiar trail to prevent obstacles. I am so sorry that I myself have had such a moment.

Nguyen Vinh, Head of Disaster Management Board of Lap Thuan village, Dai Hong commune, Dai Loc district, Quang Nam province.

Forest Land and Forest Allocation Workshop on 5 November 2014 in Tay Giang

“The process of participatory forest land and forest allocation for households met the expectations of local residents because forest land was distributed to the right people, right area and right region according to the book!” Bling Mia – Chairman of Tay Giang district People’s Committee shared his statement at the workshop on participatory forest land and forest allocation for households on 5 November 2014 at the district center.

From June, 2012 to June 2014, People’s Committee, Division of Agriculture and Rural Development, Division of Resources and Environment, Division of Forest Protection and Steering Committee of Forest Land and Forest Allocation in Tay Giang district had cooperated with Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam and Malteser International in Vietnam to carry out distribution of 607.5ha of forest land for 90 households in two villages Atep 1 and Atep 2, Bhalee commune, Tay Giang district according to the Process of Participatory Forest Land and Forest Allocation. In this process, the participatory approach method has been applied efficiently in the whole process. This helped Tay Giang DPC overcome the difficulties of budget and manpower for the first time giving people the ownership of land that they formally live on and cultivate from generation to generation. Forest Land and Forest Allocation (FLA) to households is a pilot program to encourage conservation and sustainable use of forest resources in the framework of the project “To encourage the conservation and sustainable use of forest resources in Tay Giang district” funded by Malteser International and the Ministry of Cooperation and Economic Development, Germany from 2012-2015.

The FLA process involves seven steps includes key activities like: village meetings to get feedback from the local residents about all the activities, training professional staff, selecting and training core farmers capable of participating in the activity of reserves measurement, identifying the boundary and setting up the landmarks. Tay Giang district authorities appreciated the process and applied successfully to distribute 1,654 hectares of rubber of the district budget. In addition, the district has had plans to replicate this model for the remaining six communes in the district according to the remarks of Vice-Chairman of the DPC  – Pham A. “The process is absolutely suitable for people, capacity and policy of the State. Tay Giang district can be assured to complete the FLA task for farmers in the future”.

Workshop on FLA on 12 December 2014 at Danang city

In order to share experiences and get feedback on the replication and application of the process, DPC collaborated with the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam and Malteser International to hold a workshop on 12 December 2014 at Danang city. The workshop was appreciated and attracted special attention of many experts from agencies and non-governmental organizations in this field. In addition, participants also discussed about how to complete the Participatory FLA process. In the future, Manuals on Participatory FLA will be edited and shared with the individuals, agencies and organizations involved.

Pham Dinh Hien

Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam