Consultancy and Other Services

From October 2016 to December 2017, The Consultative Institute for Socio- Economic Development of Rural and Mountainous Areas (CISDOMA) is involved in the Consultancy package “Auditing of Enterprises/Restaurants for Good Practices for Food Safety Handling and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Postharvest Handling”. This is a part of the Trade Facilitation “Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary [...]

From March to September 2016, CISDOMA will provide consultancy to Institute of International Education on the USAID-funded project Vietnam Partner Capacity Development Program (PCD). The project is intended to address one of Vietnam’s core challenges – a desire for growth, innovation, and investment while promoting transparent and effective governance that embraces diverse ideas and resources [...]

The Oxfam/Spark-led program Strengthen Resilience Options for Narrowing the Gap (STRONG), intended to enhance the resilient capacity of private sector which creates innovative climate-agriculture model that benefits small food producers/handlers and communities in their supply chain, is planned to be implemented in four years. To facilitate capacity development of targeted enterprises of the program, CISDOMA [...]

In January and February, 2016, CISDOMA was entrusted by Plan International in Vietnam with consultancy on the project Building resilience to natural hazards in Central Vietnam sponsored by USAID. As part of the assignment, CISDOMA reviewed relevant documents related to the project’s baseline and pre-KAP survey, prepared detailed plan for implementation of the survey, including [...]

From December 2015 to February 2016, CISDOMA provided the Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific (AFAP) in Vietnam with consultancy services on economic empowerment for local facilitators in Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province. The assignment entailed two major activities: (1) Prepared a facilitators’ manual for local facilitators to transfer economics [...]

In three months from October to December 2015, CISDOMA delivered consultancy service for Center for Development and Integration on participatory assessment on the impact of mining activities on the local communities in Trai Cau commune (Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province). By collecting information/feedbacks from the local communities and other different stakeholders of local mining [...]

To facilitate the development of its National Strategic Plan (NSP) and expansion of its activities in the northern region of Vietnam, from April to July 2015 Aide et Action International (AEA) in Vietnam assigned CISDOMA with preliminary survey of the socio-economic situations of Lai Chau and Hoa Binh provinces. The surveys were intended for identifying [...]

From April to June 2015, CISOMA undertook consultancy service on climate change resilient/adaptive livelihoods for Care International in Vietnam. Funded by Australian Department of Foreigner Affairs and Trade,  the three-month assignment entailed working closely with local authorities and other partners to test, demonstrate and promote climate resilient/adaptive livelihoods in the agriculture (crop cultivation, livestock and [...]

From March to July 2015, Aide et Action International (AEA) contracted with CISDOMA for programme review, appraisal and strategy development for AEA in Vietnam. The five-month assignment sought to develop a country programme Strategic Paper/Plan, which is the ground stone and strategic guidance for AEA’s program orientation and implementation in the northern mountainous areas of [...]

From March to June 2015, CISDOMA served as lead consulting agency for the Together- Strengthening Community Resilience Project implemented by Catholic Relief Service (CRS) and funded by MACF’s foundation. The project supported local communities in reducing vulnerability and increase resiliency through improved capacity and reduced livelihood damages. It contributed to directly benefitting 35,000 local people [...]