SNV: Netherlands Development Organisation

Partnering to build sustainable tourism

In 2001, the Sa Pa District People’s Committee asked SNV and the IUCN (World Conservation Union) for support in implementing a pilot project in sustainable tourism. The two organisations entered into an advisory relationship with the district to build its capacity to promote the development of the tourism industry in a sustainable fashion and to equalise the distribution of profits between urban Sa Pa and the rural villages.

Supporting green tea value chain development

With 31,000 MT green tea produced in 2004, Vietnam accounts for 4% of the world green tea production. Developing the green tea sector in Vietnam and answering the growing world demand has the potential to bring out of poverty ethnic communities. SNV has been working in the Lai Chau tea farms since 2007.

Increasing sustainable income for upland cardamom farmers

Cardamom is planted under 30% forest cover in altitudes above 1,000 m. In a region where deforestation to plant maize is the norm, cardamom offers an opportunity to preserve forest cover to a certain extent. Cardamom is used in China as a traditional medicine, a feed supplement for bovine in winter in the North of the country, as a spice and is said to be processed as an ingredient for cosmetics.

SNV’s interventions would directly benefit around 100 households (through Interest Group creation and facilitation) and indirectly benefit around 2,000 households.

Assignment for SNV.