Ethnic Minority Working Group Events 2006

28 September, 2006

EMWG meeting on 'The Pu Y Culture - a study by Pu Y people'

• Overview of Study
• Potential of using PRA tools for a participatory research on Culture

19 July, 2006

EMWG meeting on: A practical approach towards child-friendly ethnic community

• Child-friendly ethnic community - an overview
• Child-friendly school library - an initiative

23 June, 2006

EMWG meeting on: Village Development Planning in ethnic minority villages

25 April, 2006

EMWG meeting on 'Bridging the gaps between local government at commune level ad local population'. Presentations by Helvetas project officers:

• Institutional gaps at commune level in ethnic and moutainous areas [1] [2]
• 'Bridging the gaps' - experiences through the Commune Development Fund [3]
• Capacity building for more accountable and responsive local cadres [4]

7th March, 2006

EMWG Joint-meeting with SANRM on 'Indigenous Seeds: What are the challenges of indigenous seeds when Vietnam accesses into WTO? Are there any measures to protect Indigenous Seeds from bad impacts?'

Presentation by Ms Hoang My Lan [5] from VECO Vietnam focused on Intellectual Property Rights and the relation between IPR with Biodiversity and indigenous/local communities. It also underlined the impacts on small scales farmers/ethnic people when Vietnam accesses into WTO and applies IPR law. The measures to protect indigenous seeds and the farmers' right were also discussed.

Related documents [6]

• Biosafety Regulation - Decision 212 [7] (English)
• Intellectual Property Rights Law [8] (Vietnamese version)