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Seite 2 • CbT considered to hold great potential to strengthen alternative and legal additional income opportunities for buffer zone communities • Promoting local tradition and culture,

CbT Development 06/2012-10/2013

Key Results, Lessons Learnt and Discussion on Ways Forward

TỔNG KẾT HOẠT ĐỘNG THÍ ĐIỂM PHÁT TRIỂN SẢN PHẨM HÀNG THỦ CÔNG MÂY TRE

ĐAN VÀ DU LỊCH CỘNG ĐỒNG TẠI HAI XÃ DÂN HÓA VÀ TRỌNG HÓA, HUYỆN MINH

HÓA

La Trong 1, 12 th December 2013

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• CbT considered to hold great potential to strengthen alternative and legal (additional) income opportunities for buffer zone communities

• Promoting local tradition and culture, empowerment

• Experiencing natural heritage

• Linking tourism and visitor demand to local experiences

ð Combine ´traditional identities´, conservation and socio-economic

development (STDP, SEDP QB , Vietnam’s National Tourism Strategy)

I Review of Key Activities II Discussion III Ways Forward - Orientation

Why CbT Development?

PART I

Key Results

07/2012: Launch meeting and 1st field visit

07/08 2012: Field visits and surveying (in total ~6 days)

Annex document of survey results

12/2012: Follow-up commune meeting

05/2013: Commune meeting and household selection

process

06/2013: Village meetings in Ra Mai and Ta Vong

Rapid household assessments

CbT WG Workshop

08/2013: Pilot visit with tour operators

06/2012

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10/2013

PART I

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I Review of Key Activities II Discussion III Ways Forward - Orientation

CbT Pilot Visit with Tour Operators

CbT short movie with images

PART I

PART I

Outcomes, Difficulties and

Lesson´s Learnt

Outcomes

• Awareness raising

• Infrastructural assessment and

setting/cultural background

• Working proposals

• Selection of pilot villages and households

• CbT Working Group (?)

• Pilot visit

Difficulties

• Weak follow-up activities (Oct 2012-Mar 2013)

• Uncertainty about available budgets

• Agreement on pilot villages

• Internal changes GIZ, what comes next?

Lessons Learnt

• Regular follow-up of activities and information sharing with all involved

stakeholders

• Securing financing of activities

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• Product development

• Capacity building for villagers

• Infrastructural support

• Organisation and coordination

• M & E

• Forthcomings depending on participant feedback

• Project support: CbT development part of livelihood development

• Potential threats:

• Unstable demand

• Project support

• Coordination and communication

• Benefits (inter- and intra-village distribution) and over-dependence

• No visible links to conservation isses

• Cultural impacts

I Review of Key Activities II Discussion III Ways Forward - Orientation

Ways Forward

PART I

Linking Private and Public Sector with Villagers:

PART I

GIZ

Ta Vong

Local authorities

Local tour operator(s)

• Operating tours

• Involve villagers

• Safety

Responsibilities: Fairness (e.g pricing, marketing), information sharing,

minimizing negative impacts on the community and natural

surroundings, benefit-sharing, monitoring

• Communication

• Facilitation

• Communication and coordination, training

• advisory

• Services

• Hygiene and safety

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I Review of Key Activities II Discussion III Ways Forward - Orientation

PART II

Participants´ Comments and

Feedback

Guiding questions:

• What are your impressions so far? Positive and negative aspects on:

• CbT concept in general and on opportunities for application in

Trong Hoa and Dan Hoa?

• Activities done so far?

• Involvement of stakeholders and communication processes?

• Do you have any suggestions on what could have been done better? How?

• What will happen in the future/ what are important aspects to

consider in the future?

PART III

Ways Forward?

• If all stakeholders are interested in the activity to be continued,

drafting of a practical and detailed working plan, e.g

• Guiding questions/ tasks:

• Time frame/ schedule for piloting activity in 2014

• Border permission process

• Monitoring

• Training

• Written commitments/ agreements of all parties

• Communication and networking, outreach

• Roles and responsibilities of all involved parties

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Thank you!

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Steps Forward and Commitment

La Trong 1, 12 th December 2013

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Planning Framework and Next Steps

- Bringing visitors through a local tour operator to Ta Vong / the

Trong Hoa Commune, running from early May – late August (4

months)

- Piloting will take place on a low key basis in Ta Vong in 2014 only, activities/ approach could be expanded to Ra Mai in 2015 (but Ra Mai can already be integrated into the product considering their handicraft development skills)

Planning Framework and Next Steps

- Update on pilot preparation from GIZ:

- Border permission procedure and processing steps

- Activity generated quite a lot interest and media attention

- Training provision:

- Sought contact with Hanoi Open University/ CapilanoU (ð experience in CbT development in SAPA)

- Sought for interest with ESRT project based in Hanoi for training

- (splitting up training in different stages/modules)

- HR resources:

- One person on tourism activities (incuding CbT), ~March-September

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What do we all have to contribute?

What are the pre-conditions?

BUT: also here today to get to know to what extent we can call commit

FUNDING?

Local operator/Oxalis?

Border police?

Other stakeholders?

Starting with activities, coordination and organisation with villagers, commune, tour operator and border police

GIZ

Received positive feedback

from villagers and commune,

but:

If all can commit to the idea, we will

outline detailed activities in budget

plan

need for approval GIZ

procure funding: e.g KfW, PPP

splitting of working plan with

different stakeholders (rf draft

proposal)

Planning Framework and Next Steps

ð Many things to do: where to start?

ð Funding ð commissiong project/ border permission processes ð detailed working plan tailored to different stakeholders, including monitoring

Meetings, training/

learning, organising

Receiving visitors

Monito-ring, planning

Receiving visitors

Meetings, training/

learning, organising

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Planning Framework and Next Steps

e.g

ð visioning ð coordination village and commune, monitoring, border permission process, communication, planning, financing

mechanism ð study trip ð training and product development ð first visit with outside visitors ð follow-up ð training and product refinement ð visit with outside visitors ð follow-up ð training and product refinement … monitoring, wrap-up

ð Many activities are continuous, they don´t follow a clear path, but will take place with different stakeholders at the same time and

then they will slowly integrated with each other…

Discussion:

What can we all contribute?

(suggestion for discussion points, e.g.)

- commune: main driver for procuring additional funding (e.g 30A, ADB, KFW)

- Tour operator/Oxalis: engage in product development, marketing/ promotion, monitoring

- Villagers: time commitment, learning, knowledge…

- …

Your ideas on the planning framework?

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What will happen after today?