ADDA in Vietnam

1. ADDA in Vietnam

2. ADDA Vietnam Projects • The IPM Project (1998 - 2005). • The Organic project (2004-2012) • The Community Dev Project (2006 – 2014) • The Legal Aid project (2008-2014) • More Trees (subcont. by DFE 2010 - 2013) • Community Based Farmer Groups, Tanzania (2009 – 2015)

3. Approach • Establish a team of facilitators, incl. training (ToT) • Conduct season long training (FFS) • Establish Interest Groups among the FFS graduate (only interested people participate)

4. Approach • The preferred approach is to create a team of locally based and known facilitators who speaks the local language and Kinh

5. Approach • Then provide technical training to farmers through participatory training methodologies (Farmer Field Schools)

6. Approach • The Farmer Field School training provides the farmers with technical knowledge which usually enable the farmers to increase their income significantly

7. Approach • and it also clearly display the advantages of collaboration to the participants. • Therefore the farmers like to form the “Farmer Interest Groups”

8. Basic Principles of FFS • The farmers are participating in weekly meetings during a full cropping season. • They learn important ecological principles by managing learning plots and experiments themselves. • 30 farmers form an FFS that is facilitated by two trainers. The discussion between farmers is the pulling force in FFS

9. Basic Principles of FFS • The FFS approach uses discovery based learning methods to improve the farmers' agro-ecological knowledge. • Each FFS has one IPM plot managed by the participants, one experimental plot and one plot cultivated in the way normally used by farmers. • The farmers will observe the biology through AESA, and make drawings of their findings. No books are used

10. Agro-eco-system-analysis

11. Agro-eco-system-analysis

12. Thai FFS (Dien Bien)

13. H’mong FFS (Lai Chau)

14. The Community Development Project • Target group: Ethnic minorities • Implemented in 6 provinces(Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Son La, Hoa Binh, Nghe An and Ha Tinh) • Local team of facilitators (72+36) • Farmer Field Schools (Maize, vegetables, and Climate Change) (500 +300 +300) • Community development groups (300+250)

15. FFS field

16. Impact on Maize Farms

17. Maize FFS • Farmers who have participated in a maize FFS have improved the income from maize cultivation with 40 % on average.

18. Maize FFS • 40% increase of net income for 15,000 trained farmers, • 1,245 kg extra / 0,6 ha maize field). • Net profit is 3,145,000 VND / farmer. • In one year this is 2,625,000 USD • Total costs of project is 2,168,000 USD over the 4 years.

19. Maize FFS • Farmers who have participated in a FFS have improved their collaborative skills • The FFS are very useful as a tool for sustainable group formation

20. Group establishment

21. Income generating activities • Production planning • Contract negotiation • Production cost reduction • Common production • Service deliveries • Organise credit • Procurements • Marketing • Take over parts of the value chain

22. Chicken group in Lai Chau

23. Tooth pick group, Hoa Binh

24. Community Development • The final step of project approach is when the groups are taking the lead for community development activities • Only possible in close cooperation with the FU and the local authorities

25. Group activities

26. Group C.D. activities

27. Community road

28. Conclusions on Groups • The groups need to embark on business opportunities and income generating activities • The groups can serve as vehicles for organising other community development activities provided that external funding is available

29. End of presentation Thank you