Project: CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

VIETNAMESE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

ON CLIMATE CHANGEPresented by: Ms. Pham Thi Bich Ngoc

CC Project Coordinator, The Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD)

June 10, 2009

PROJECT RATIONAL Climate Change Vulnerability:

Vietnam is already one of the five top most vulnerable countries in the world.

The poor, farmers, women, children, and other vulnerable communities suffer most from climate change.

Need to build capacity for NGOs and other partners to be able to effectively to support most vulnerable communities and Vietnam efforts.

Needs Assessment (July 2008) gaps identified: Information sharing; accessing funds; Training on climate change knowledge; comprehensive policy advice; and research and analysis capacity.

PURPOSE

Purpose: To raise awareness and build capacity of civil society, focusing on NGOs and their partners, to effectively respond to and integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation into relevant existing and future programs to contribute to long term sustainable development of the country and Vietnamese people

PROJECT’S COMPONENTS

COMPONENT 1: COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION

COMPONENT 2: ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION TRAINING

COMPONENT 3: SHARING AND LEARNING

IMPLEMENTING PARTERS

Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) Network of Vietnam Civil Society Organizations and

Climate Change (VCSO&CC) Lead Agency: Centre for Sustainable Rural

Development (SRD) Key Target Group: national staff of Vietnamese

and international NGOs currently engaged in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

PROJECT TIME-FRAME

Total Budget: €322,000 Contribution of Finnish Embassy: €222,000 Contribution of members: €100,000

CARE € 35,916 SRD € 20,430

OXFAM € 14,600 RECOFTC € 9,052

TDI € 8,906 MCD € 8,468

VVOB € 2,628

PROJECT TIME-FRAME Duration: 3 years (5/2009-5/2012) Phase 1 (5/ 2009 – 10/2009) - Preparation:

This phase will focus on development of the overall integrated and concrete work plan for the whole project.

Phase 2 (11/2009 – 10/2011) - Implementation: The focus of this phase is the implementation of the capacity building, communication, sharing and learning activities outlined in the work plan.

Phase 3 (11/ 2011- 5/2012)– Evaluation and Follow-Up: This phase is dedicated for evaluation of the project activities and documentation of the lessons learnt.

MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE Project Steering

Committee

Information Officer + sub-group on Com. 1

Consultants

Training Officer + sub-group on com. 2 + 3

Resource persons

Coordination Collaboration

SRD/ Coordinator

PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE (PSC) Members of the PSC include 9 representatives from

CCWG and VCSO&CC members: SRD, CARE, CDA, CRS, MCD, Oxfam, RECOFTC, TDI, and VVOB Medium-term and strategic planning Ensuring overall coordination and between

components, Reviewing the progress reports and financial

statements; Providing direction and guidance on project planning

and implementation; Meet quarterly.

LEAD AGENCY – SRD Employ project staff (03) Day-to-day management and reporting. Ensure the project is implemented in a coordinated

manner (with support and under the supervision from PSC)

Ensure coordination between the NGO CCWG and the Vietnam Network of Civil Society Organizations and Climate Change (VCSO&CC), and

Ensure outreach to other VNGOs.

MONITORING &EVALUATION

Activity monitoring will take place as project interventions occur

All project activities will be monitored on a regular basis based on the expected outcome.

Activity monitoring, ongoing collection of capacity-building indicators, consultant reports, gender analysis, mid-term review, and final evaluation

SUSTAINABILITY Participation commitment and contributions to the

project of SRD, core members of CCWG and VCSO&CC as well as PSC members

Using available recourse persons

TOT, knowledge consolidation and transfer build productive relationships and contribute to sustainable knowledge transfer

GENDER, ENVIRONMENT

Gender equality will be promoted through gender-sensitive training materials and the active inclusion of women in all training activities.

Environmental impact will be positive, due to increased awareness of climate change and other environmental issues.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

We look forward to your support and cooperation