Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment

INTERIM WORKSHOP OF THE PROJECT “COMMUNITY-BASED ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLICY LINKAGES IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE”

7/23/2010 10:37:00 AM

On June 17, 2010 the Institute of Resources, Environment and Biotechnology (IREB) - Hue University organized an interim workshop of the project FLC 09-04 “Community-based adaptation to climate change and policy linkages in Thua Thien Hue province” to assess the results of the first year implementation funded by the Embassy of Finland in Vietnam.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Van Thang, Project Manager
gave an opening remark

Attending the workshop were Mr. Max von Bonsdorff - Head of Development Cooperation Group of the Embassy of Finland to Vietnam, Ms. Le Thi Phuong Thao - Representative of the Embassy of Finland to Vietnam, Dr Nguyen Huu Ninh - Chairman of Scientific Council - Center for Environmental Research, Education and Development (CERED), Prof. Sc. Dr. Dang Trung Thuan - Chairman of Vietnam Association of Geochemistry (VAG), related stakeholders in Thua Thien Hue province and leaders of the project site: Huong Phong commune, Huong Tra district and Quang Thanh commune, Quang Dien district.

The workshop reported general results achieved and lessons learned in the first year of project implementation, results of basic research, livelihood models adaptive to climate change for the two communes Huong Phong and Quang Thanh along with implementation plans for the next period. It also received feedbacks from representatives of local authorities at communal and provincial levels, and the project beneficiary households.

The whole workshop

After one year of implementation, the project FLC 09-04 has achieved certain successes, carried out basic and advanced research at the project site; assessed vulnerability and climate change impacts on livelihoods of the local communes; organized training classes on aquaculture technique adaptive to climate change; implemented livelihood development models adaptive to climate change for local people (aquaculture model adaptive to climate change, model vegetable growing adaptive to climate change and implemented some solutions to deal with environmental risks before rainy and flood season).

On behalf of the Embassy of Finland, Mr. Max von Bonsdorff highly appreciated the results obtained after one year of implementation and especially a lot of research information provided. He affirmed that these results 1 will be good base for the implementation of phase 2 (July, 2010 - June, 2011).

In addition, the workshop also recorded all the advice and contributions to the project FLC 09-04 of most of the participants.