A step towards the restoration of Central Highland forests

Y Thu is an Sedang woman. At only 29 years old, she has been the head of Tu Mo Rong village for several years. As a child of the Central Highland, Y Thu is always concerned about how her ...

End of project “Assistance for Damrey typhoon and flood affected communities in the central region of Vietnam”

After 9 months of implementation, Project “Assistance for Damrey typhoon and flood affected communities in the central region of Vietnam” was officially closed on 29 September 2018 in Thu...

Turning the right to know into a reality

A CARE survey in a mountainous province in northern Vietnam about domestic violence this year showed that a lot of people did not know that violence against others is illegal and that sla...

How paying attention to gender differences in emergencies prevent deeper gender inequalities

Reflection on CARE’s response to typhoon Damrey in central VietnamIt has been increasingly known that disasters affect women and men, girls and boys, the old and the young in different wa...

Keeping silent – the most common reaction to violence

“Many women only dare to say they have a motorbike accident after being beaten by their husbands,” said Ms. Lo Thi Chanh, Chairwoman of Muong Phang communal Women’s Union in Dien Bien dis...

Breaking the silence around gender based violence among ethnic minority communities in Dien Bien

Dien Bien, 10 September 2018 – Dien Bien province will, for the first time, have a project focusing on minimising gender-based violence among ethnic minority communities to promote gender...

Information for adaptation in Vietnam project officially launched

Dien Bien, 28 August 2018 – The inception workshop of Information for adaptation in Vietnam (InfoAct) project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Developmen...

A new project to support livelihood and adaptation to climate change for ethnic minority farmers

Dien Bien, 28 August 2018 - Despite mainly living on agriculture, farmers in general and ethnic minority farmers in particular in the Northern mountainous areas still do not have sufficie...

Gender and Climate Change integration into poverty reduction policy planning

During 8 and 10 August 2018, 36 representatives from Ha Giang Department on Ethnic Minority Affairs; Departments of Investment and Planning, Agriculture and Rural Development, Culture-Spo...