News:
2011:
- What hope for Vietnam’s highly threatened wildlife?
- Future of community forest management in Vietnam
2010:
- REDD In Vietnam: Issues, Opportunities, and Linkages
- GIS database for Bac Kan and Tuyen Quang developed: Policy issues and options were identified and initiate dialogue between local government and relevant stakeholders on alternative development scenarios in focal provinces organized
- Provincial Learning Network on sustainable forest management established and strengthened
- Studies on forest products trade and community forest management conducted
- "Soft" advocacy carried out by Learning Network with provincial and national stakeholders
- Awareness and capacity of communities, local government agencies and other actors for identifying and tackling barriers to fair market access improved
- Awareness and understanding of local authorities, businesses and civil society in Vietnam and relevant external FLEG stakeholders of the underlying causes of illegal forest activities, and possible measures for tackling these causes, improved through networking, training, information provision and advocacy.
2009:
- Workshop Identifies Issues and Opportunities as Vietnam Seeks to Meet Growing International Demand for Legal Wood Products
- Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Analysis Identifies Ways to Improve Understanding and Increase Legality
- IUCN Researches Policies to Promote Sustainable Forest Livelihoods
2008:
- Research to Inform Projects Tying Forest Use to Poverty Reduction
- IUCN VN Readies the Private Sector for Timber Industry Changes
- Decree to Regulate Biodiversity Corridors
- In Beijing, Delegates Share Viet Nam’s Efforts to Facilitate Legal and Sustainable Wood Product Trade
- Viet Nam addresses international market demands for verified legal wood products
- IUCN Briefs High Level Government Officials about FLEGT
- Strengthening Law Enforcement for Biodiversity: Local Watch-dog Capacity Improved
2007:
- New concept explored in Viet Nam: Fire ecology
- Strengthening Voices for Better Choices: Working toward better forest governance
- The Role of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in Poverty Alleviation and Biodiversity Conservation
- Participants: non-timber forest product project has had positive impacts
- Cutting down on illegal logging: IUCN launches a Global Forest Management Programme
- Viet Nam participates in the second East Asia and Pacific FLEGT Task Force and Advisory Group meeting in Manila from 7-9 March 2006
Events:
2008:
Private sector Training workshop on Forest Protection and Development Law for People’s Courts in Lam Dong Province- February
Consultative workshop on Volunteer Partnership Agreement on FLEGT in Ha Noi– April
Private sector workshop on FLEGT in Ho Chi Minh City -- October
Landscapes and Livelihoods Strategy (LLS) research trainings in Bac Kan and Hue -- December
2007:
International NTFPs Workshop in Ha Noi – June
National NTFPs Network Planning Workshop - June
National Forest Fire Workshop – September
Training needs assessment on Forest Protection and Development Law for People’s Courts - November
