Consultancy and Other Services

As part of the organisation food security policy, Bread for the World (BftW) is developing a strategic direction to strengthen agroecology Vest Vietnam-Laos. CISDOMA provided the consultancy package to BftW on a “Comprehensive analysis of existing and potential local resources and their contributions to an agroecology approach in food production in Vietnam” Duration: From November [...]

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ (BP) plans to expand the use of daycare and support survival swimming in Viet Nam to directly address preventable child drowning deaths. CISDOMA, in collaboration with Synergos Institute conducted a “Drowning Prevention Sustainability Study”. Duration: From August 2017 to January 2018. Objective: The project sought to develop a sustainability strategy for drowning prevention [...]

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 [...]