CENTER FOR
HIGHLAND NATURAL RESOURCEGOVERNANCE RESEARCH
Our Focus
Community Forest Land Rights
Assisting communities in securing their traditional forest land rights and promoting the development and refinement of policies. Through our community-based forest development models and forest land rights studies, we share knowledge to ensure these rights are respected and upheld equitably.
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous knowledge plays an important role in the sustainable development of communities, conservation and efficient use of resources, food security and adaptation to climate change. This intangible asset is especially valuable to Vietnam - the home of 54 ethnic groups.
Community
Livelihood
CEGORN has been striving to improve the quality of life in local communities for many years by encouraging the sustainable management of resources, such as through the creation of value chains for honey, bamboo shoots, herbal medicines, and other non-timber forest products.
Local Institutions
When it comes to formulating and executing policies and programs, particularly in rural and ethnic minority regions, giving attention to existing customary practices and structures and then constructing more formalized systems based on those traditional customs is of high importance.
Biodiversity Conservation
At CEGORN, biodiversity conservation is a key focus and we strive to accomplish this goal through community-based conservation. The natural forest area of over one million hectares, designated for the community to oversee, has been and is continuing to be carefully preserved.
Adaptation To Climate Change
In the context of increasingly strong climate change and its impacts on the economy, society and environment, CEGORN has been contributing to climate change adaptation activities of the Vietnamese government by supporting the community to adapt to climate change.
On-going Projects
MRLG Viet Nam Workstream for Customary Tenure Recognition through Support to the Implementation of the 2017 Viet Nam Forestry Law
- 01/02/2023
- Quảng Bình, Hòa Bình, Đăk Lăk
- LAND EQUITY INTERNATIONAL, MRLG
People,Primates, Plants: Co-managing Biodiversity and Improving Livelihoods in Vietnam
- 01/09/2022
- Tuyên Hóa, Quảng Bình
- Darwin
Raising awareness about the law on alcohol harm prevention for children and ethnic minorities in Quang Binh province
- 15/06/2023
- Quảng Bình
- EU
Strengthening access to management and use of land and forests by ethnic minorities
- 05/03/2021
- Quảng Bình
- EU
Planting and rehabilitating the Gianh river watershed
- 01/03/2021
- Quảng Bình
- Khởi xướng và quản lý bởi Công ty TNHH xã hội trồng và phục hồi rừng Việt Nam (VARS)
Sow The Seed For Better Future
2022 Report
Empowering the Community
CEGORN aims for a society in which communities are respected and treated fairly based on their culture, with special priority given to the following:
Women
Ethnic minority
High land Community
Our partner
News
Survey on the distribution of Red-shanked Douc in Đakrông Nature Reserve, Quang Tri province
Pygathryx nemaeus or Red-shanked Douc, is referred as the most beautiful primate in the world. Two herds of Red-shanked Douc (Pygathryx nemaeus)with 13-17 individuals have been found in the Đakrông
