Exchanging waste for plants

Aim: Increasing awareness of students about collecting, separating and recycling waste in household level and also increasing their interest at the nature and the surrounding environment. Description: Collecting trash, cleaning Ha Sen route, exchange waste for plants. Result: 200 students participated. 150 plants was exchanged The idea is part of CECR’s project: “Facilitating the pioneering […]

Khac Niem (Bac Ninh): Supporting Water Day 2017

The Center for Environment and Community Research (CECR), Bac Ninh Environmental Protection Department and the People’s Committee of Khac Niem ward held an event in support of Water Day 2017 with the slogan “Clean-Green-Nice Bon Xa channel: Improve water quality for safe water” on March 19th, 2017 at Khac Niem ward, Bac Ninh city. This […]

Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Ly talk about "gender inequalities of risk" at COP22

Take five: On the front line of disasters, women are more at risk and less heard Nguyen Ngoc Ly Photo: Dang Thuy Trang, CECR Nguyen Ngoc Ly is the founder and director of Center for Environment and Community Research, an organization in Hanoi, Viet Nam, advocating for participatory and inclusive environmental governance and climate change action. […]

Too many managers, difficult for water pollution treatment

Regulations on environmental protection are scattered in many laws; many ministries are responsible for management, wastewater treatment leads to overlaps and lack of coordination in implementing the tasks of environmental protection; thus, the water environment pollution is still serious. This is confirmed by experts at the seminar “Clean water and sustainable development: the policy problem”. […]

Seminar "Clean water and sustainable development: policy issues"

Current situation poses on the need to have proper perspective about the issue of water pollution as a threat capable of causing a tremendous impact on the whole society to a large extent both in space and time as well as review of relevant policies which heavily oriented and lack of specific guidance. In the […]

The seminar "The law enforcement of environmental protection: American Experience"

Morning of 06.10.2016, Center for Environmental Research and Community organized the seminar “The law enforcement of environmental protection: American Experience”. This seminar has the participation of Dr. Avi Garbow  – chief adviser of the U.S. Ministry of Environment and other american legal experts, environmentalists, NGOs in Vietnam.

Assessing Women’s Engagement in Environmental Impact Assessments on Infrastructure Projects in Vietnam: Recommendations for Policy and Public Participation in EIA

 Since 1993, the Government of Vietnam has required environmental impact assessments (EIAs) of development projects and large-scale infrastruc- ture after the National Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) was enacted. LEP’s decrees and circulars mandate public consultations in the EIA process. In the 2014 amendment of LEP, the government required public consultations during the preparation of […]

Earthday 2016: Clean water, strong economy

“Responding Earth Day” program was conducted in the morning of 23.04.2016 at Hanoi’s Botanical Gardens. The program was organized by the VEA, Research Center for Environment and Community (CECR), Coalition for Clean Water, Hanoi’s Lake Club with the message “Clean water, strong economy”. Co-organizers of this event also include businesses: Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam, Lock […]

INVITATION JOIN EARTH DAY EVENT 04/23/2016

INVITATION JOIN EARTH DAY EVENT 04/23/2016 BOTANIC GARDEN (CONG VIEN BACH THAO) – HANOI “CLEAN WATER, STRONG ECONOMY” Hanoi, April 20, 2016 Dear participants, Earth Day (22/4) for the first time were proposed in the United States in 1970 and 2009 by the United Nations and recognized, launched globally, attracted hundreds of million people in […]