Sustainable management of natural forest through improving awareness and building capacity to improve the rights and legal status of ethnic minority communities to natural forest in central Vietnam (2012-2014)

Community forests exists as part of local traditions, linking people’s interests with the community’s spiritual and religious beliefs and playing a vital role in the life and culture of ethnic minorities. To promote interests of the community and their role in the sustainability of natural forest, the Government of Vietnam has been allocating forests to the community for long-term management and use since the 1990s

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YouthXchange – Training kit on responsible consumption

UNEP and UNESCO started the YouthXchange (YXC) Initiative in 2001 to promote sustainable lifestyles among young people (aged 15-24) through education, dialogue, awareness raising and capacity-building. At the national and local level, YXC training activities are secured through a diverse network of partners, with the support of a printed training kit and a website www. youthxchange.net.

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The Rights-based Approach- A Story of Community-based Forest Management in Phu Mau

“Natural forest allocation to community to manage” is a major policy of the Communist Party and the Government of Vietnam to implement the socialisation of forestry. Thua Thien Hue is a province in the Central Coast region where forest land area (307,201.8 hectares as of 2008) accounts for 60.7% of the total land area so the province has attended to this policy for long

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