Vietnam is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, given its 54 recognized ethnic groups cohabiting in a relatively small landmass. Only seven of these groups—Kinh, Tay, Thai, H’mong, Muong, Nung, and Khmer—have populations over one million, while up to 12 ethnic ...

The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) will organize the 6th Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED (Global Citizenship Education) from 25 to 31 May 2020.The one-week Workshop aims to build capacity of dynamic youth leaders around the world to identify strategies to achieve ...

The flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam are forecast to increase in the second half of the year as the downturn has been improved in recent months, experts have said. The reasons behind the decline include a lack of expansion of big projects, ...

The management board of Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark said since 2011 experts at the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network (GGN) have discussed entry fee collection and financial autonomy for the tourism site. A report showed that about 65 percent of travelers to the province would visit ...

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Vietnam is ethnically diverse, with 54 ethnic groups living in different regions. Of these ethnic groups, the Kinh is the most populous, making up 85.3% of the population (around 82 million people). The remaining 53 ethnic groups account for 14.6% of the population and are ...

Established in 2011, Makesense is an international NGO whose vision is to solve today’s social and environmental issues by providing incubation and capacity building activities for individuals, social entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking organizations.Act4Impact is one of Makesense Asia’s premiere social innovation program, catering to citizen-advocates who ...

Vietnam has received a 51.5-million-USD payment for verified emissions reductions (carbon credits) for reducing deforestation and forest degradation (commonly known as REDD+) and for enhancing carbon stored in forests through reforestation and afforestation.This makes Vietnam the first country in the East Asia-Pacific to receive a ...

The LoCoFoRest (Locally Controlled Forest Restoration) training programme focuses on one critical question: How can we scale up restoration of forest landscapes while securing the prosperity of local communities and maintaining and improving ecosystem services?LoCoFoRest will build capacity in national, regional and local institutions and ...

Vietnam is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, given its 54 recognized ethnic groups cohabiting in a relatively small landmass. Only seven of these groups—Kinh, Tay, Thai, H’mong, Muong, Nung, and Khmer—have populations over one million, while up to 12 ethnic ...

Asia, just like the rest of the world, is grappling with COVID-19. Despite tremendous economic growth and advances in healthcare, technology, and elsewhere during the preceding decades, we are struggling to overcome the pandemic and the resultant economic and social fallouts. Journalism for an Equitable Asia ...

In the story ‘We Have Eaten The Forest’ of a Montagnard village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, ethnologist Georges Condominas tells about the ancient way of ‘eating the forest’, which is to preserve the forest culturally. Nowadays, the descendants of characters in the story ...

Open Development Initiative (ODI) is looking to hire a regular translator to assist with the localization of the OD Vietnam platform and database.Rates: Translation cost based on number of page and CKAN data entry  – will discuss in detail with selected candidate. The translator will use CKAN to directly conduct the translations ...

The 4,040 hectares of forests planted and restored in the first phase of the World Bank (WB)-funded Forest Sector Modernisation and Coastal Resilience Enhancement Project will receive further care, as Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a decision on the adjustment of the project ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasised the urgent need to develop a carbon market and carbon credit management mechanisms in his recently-issued directive.In Vietnam, since the mid-2000s, many businesses have rolled out carbon credit programmes and projects, notably those under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). ...

Land ConsolidationLand in Vietnam is divided into extremely small parcels by world standards. The average agricultural landholding is 1,560 square meters per capita, which is less than one-third of standard holdings in Thailand or Cambodia. Up to 70% of rural households have land use rights ...

Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. S-shaped with a 3,440 km coastline, its unique geographic location in the monsoon belt of Southeast Asia and diverse topography means that Vietnam suffers from many different types of natural hazards, including typhoons, tropical ...

The global pursuit of Green Growth has transformed into an essential agenda in a world grappling with escalating environmental degradation, climate change, and the depletion of finite resources. This concept strives to balance prosperity and ecological sustainability by decoupling economic growth from resource consumption and ...

The National Targeted Program on New Rural Development – 10 years review and way forwardIntroductionIn Vietnam, rural development is nearly synonymous with agricultural sector development. Agriculture itself is crucial in Vietnamese policy, as it forms the backbone of the country’s economy. Thus, rural development has ...

Vietnam’s 0.3 hectare of agricultural land per person is among the lowest in the world. Vietnam’s Constitution holds that land and other natural resources are "public property, owned by all the people..." Vietnamese law does not recognize customary forms of tenure, and communities (villages) do ...