Establishment of RTCCD

The Research and Training Center for Community Development (RTCCD) was established in May of 1996, by a group of local researchers, to facilitate the investigation of practical and effective approaches to develop people’s capacity to alleviate poverty and disadvantage in Vietnam

The Center is a Vietnamese non-profit, non-governmental, and locally managed organization, providing an independent voice for advocating participatory community development in Vietnam.

RTCCD aims to increase the capacity and quality of human resources at the grass-roots level by implementing activities to assist people to carry out their own active research, as well as providing training to support community participation on developmental projects.

For further reference, please take a look on our website: www.rtccd.org.vn

Activities

Since its inception, RTCCD has conducted a range of activities in the areas of Research, Training and Project Implementation.

RTCCD’s work focuses on four aspects: Health and Nutrition (integrated health care, health promotion and health system reform), Poverty Alleviation, Mental Health and Community Development,  and Information Technology.

Training

Training is one of many strengths of RTCCD. Instead of using overseas and/or vague examples, our trainers use local experience, trainees’ own project and Vietnamese case studies to help trainees understand better to make our courses more practical. Since January of 2004, RTCCD offers regular training programs listed below:

	Course**
1.	Community Development
2.	Training of Trainer (basic)
3.	Training of Trainer (advanced)
4.	Participatory Project Design and Planning
5.	Project Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
6.	Project Proposal Development
7.	Writing Project Reports
8.	Project Financial Management
9.	Project Management
10.	Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA)
11.	Quantitative Research Methods
12.	Qualitative Research Methods
13.	Community Nutritional Assessment Access
14.	Website Design
15.	Data Management Using Microsoft Access
16.	Data Management Using Epi Info
17.	Data Management Using Stata
18.	Epidemiology for Research on Community Development*
19.	Biostatistics applied in Community Development*
20.	Health System Research*
21.	Sampling Design and Sample Size in Community Reseach
22.	Facilitation skills
23.	Mental Health in Community: Prevention and Control
24.	Supportive Supervision in Health Projects
25.	Health Policy Analysis Methodology

** Design according to your requirement