Type of Organization:     Non - Governmental Organisation (NGO)

Director:          Ninh Van Hiep - Specialty:  Ethnology - Enterprise Management

Address:           58 Nguyen Khang Road, Yen Hoa Ward, Cau Giay District – Hanoi

Telephone:       00.84. 4. 7843681-7849059

Fax:                  00.84. 4.7843678

E-mail:             cisdoma@hn.vnn.vn, cisdoma58nk@fpt.vn

Establishment Decision:  No 25/QD-TW issued on 22/5/2000 by the President of the Southeast Asian Research Association of Vietnam (SEARAV).

THE INSTITUTE’S ORGANISATION

Presently, CISDOMA employs 29 research cadres and 30 collaborators who are scientists of state and social management field; leading specialists of fields such as: economic, finance, banking, statistics, agriculture, forestry, sea-marine, environment, energy, gender, ethnology, sociology, health care, HIV/AIDS prevention…

The number of scientists at the institute consists of:

  + 05 Professors and Associate Professor. Doctors

  + 12 Doctors, Masters.

CISDOMA's Organisation Structure:

* Scientific Council

* Management board:

- Director: Mr. Ninh Van Hiep

- Vice- Director:  Associate. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Khac Tich

- Director Assistant: BA. Nguyen Thi Hong Ha

* Special Issue of CISDOMA: “Community Development”

Subsidiaries: There are 14 centers working under the Institute. They are:

1. Research Center for Gender, Family and Community Development

2. Center for Energy and Environment (C.E.E)

3. Center for Bio - Agriculture Research

4. Centre for Human Resource Education and Development (CEHRED)

5. Center for Researching, Publishing Books and Magazines

6. Center for National Cultural Heritage Conservation

7.  Center for Community Forestry (C.C.F)

8. Consulting Center for Product Quality

9. Center for Socio - Economics Sustainable Development

10. Research center for climate change and sustainable development

11. Centre for joint publication and art design 

12. Vocational training centre for the poor and disabled 

13. Centre for information and communication

OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES

Objectives

Through consulting and co-operating in implementing sustainable development projects in various sectors, CISDOMA’s activities are aiming at:

- Increasing income, improving the quality of life of poor and disadvantaged groups.

- Strengthening capacity of local organizations in planning of implementing programs on poverty reduction, especially in rural and mountainous, far and remote, ethnic minority areas of Vietnam.

Scope of activities:

To research and consult issues on socio-economic development of rural and mountainous areas in Vietnam and Southeast-Asia.

To consult strategy, policy, institution and law of the state in sustainable socio-economic development of rural and mountainous areas.

To implement the activities:

- Providing technical assistance, constructing feasibility study (F/S), conducting and implementing, monitoring and evaluating projects.

- Consulting, constructing, master plans on socio-economic development of rural and mountainous areas.

- Carrying out poverty reduction and sustainable development projects of rural and mountainous areas, especially in far and remote, ethnic minority areas of Vietnam.

- Cooperating implementation of projects on:

+ Gender, community development, dissemination and mobilization on health care, HIV/AIDS prevention.

+ Children issues.

+ Bio-agriculture in socio-economic life.

+ Planning and rural development.

+ Planning and natural forest resource development.

+ Community forestry.

+ Prospecting and exploiting water resource.

+ Clean water and environment hygiene.

+ New and renewable energy.

+ Traditional handicraft development.

+ Educating, training and developing human resources.

+ Vocational training for the poor youth and disabled

+ Sociological and ethnological survey

+ Indigenous cultural heritage conservation

+ National and international science workshops on relating issues

+ Providing experts in various fields such as: agriculture, energy, environment, forestry, fishery, rural development project, clean water prospection and exploitation, gender, community development, health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, social criminal prevention and vocational guidance for youth, cultural heritage conservation, sociology, ethnology…

PROJECTS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED:

1/ “Education and training of gender awareness, reproductive health and provision of bookshelf to women of Trung Luong and Dong Thinh communes, Dinh Hoa district, Thai Nguyen province”

Duration: January 2000 – April 2000

Main partner: Women Union of Dinh Hoa district- Thai Nguyen province

Funding source: Gender Equality Fund of Swedish - Danish

2/ VIE-98-004 “Administrative Reforms”

Duration: 2000 - 2003

Main Partner:  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)

Funding source:  UNDP

CISDOMA was responsible for training.

3/ "Rural Energy Assessment" 

Duration: 2001-2006

Location: This project is realized in 04 countries of 03 continents: Vietnam, Tanzania, Honduras and Bolivia.

Funding source: ETC of Netherlands

4/ “Review and Opportunity Assessment (ROA) to the North- Central Renewable Energy Project - RENC”

Project duration: 1999 – 2002      

Duration for ROA:  Feb 2003 to April 2003

Location: Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Thua Thien Hue Provinces

Funding source: Netherlands Development Organization (SNV Vietnam)

5/ " Restoration and development of the traditional handicraft weaving of Pathen ethnic women in Tan Trinh commune, Bac Quang district (now Quang Binh district), Ha Giang province”

Duration: 2001 – 2005

Location: Tan Bac commune (Quang Binh district) and Tan Trinh commune, Bac Quang district, Ha Giang province

Funding source: WB, Ford Motor Company and Ethnic Minority Working Group (EMWG)

6/ “Building Biogas models at village scale to ethnic minority people in mountainous areas”

Location:  Pac Po village, Truong Ha commune, Ha Quang district, Cao Bang province

Duration: May 2003 - February 2004

Funding source: PSD of Francophonie

7/ “Building engineering of living water supply in combination with rice field irrigation for Nung  ethnic people of Lung Chung village, Quang Minh commune, Bac Quang district, Ha Giang province"

Location:  Lung Chung village, Quang Minh commune, Bac Quang district, Ha Giang province

Duration: October 2001- December 2003

Funding source: ASAS of Australia-AusAID

8/ "Application of solar power to mountainous areas and ethnic minority in Vietnam"

loan granted by Finland Government

Location: 12 provinces in which     

+ 7 Northern mountainous  provinces : Cao Bang, Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Yen Bai, Lao Cai, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An 

+ 3 central provinces:   Quang Binh, Quang Tri & Quang Nam.

+ 2 west highland provinces:  Dak  Lak and Gia Lai

Duration: January 2001 -  December 2007

9/ “Organizing contest on learning HIV/AIDS prevention and care to youth assault of Quang Binh district, Ha Giang province”

Duration: 2004

Funding source: World Bank

10/ “Training on knowledge for AIDS prevention and care to Cao Bang women union”

Duration: 2004-2005

Funding Source: World Bank in Vietnam

11/ “Conducting research and investigation in Sierra Leone serving for constructing pre-feasibility study”

Duration: 2004<