In the following pages, you will find information related to RTCCD’s activities including research, training, consultancies, and community development intervention projects which we have been implementing in various provinces across Vietnam: Lang Son, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Ha Tay, Hung Yen, Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan, Kontum, Dak Lak, Tay Nguyen, Ben Tre, An Giang, Dong Thap.

RTCCD is one of several centers that provide training courses aimed at significantly improving community development project officers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practical skills related to implementing community development projects (CD projects). RTCCD is expert in providing short courses on community development approaches, CD project management, research methods used in CD projects, applied statistics in CD projects, data management and data analysis, CD project report writing and journal paper writings. These innovative training courses are seldom found in other training institutions in the country.

Among the local NGOs in Vietnam, RTCCD is known as the leading organization in research, training, and community intervention in the fields of mental health and community based mental health care intervention, control of malnutrition, micro-nutrient deficiency and obesity; health system research toward equity and efficiency; school health system; social capital and community development. In 2005, the RTCCD - University of Melbourne Partnership to Improve Primary Mental Health Care for Mothers and Young Children was formed. Currently, RTCCD is developing a model of community-based first aid for control of traffic accidents.

RTCCD has a panel of well-known experts working full-time for the center who have specialties in health system analysis, mental health, public health, peadiatrics and statistics. The organization has an experienced quantitative research team with capability of complex data analysis technique and experiences in international longitudinal studies. Each year, this critical mass releases about ten mission reports at the request of a variety of international and governmental institutions, publishes between three to five papers in international peer-review journals, and publishes more than ten articles in local journals and daily newspapers that enrich the reader’s knowledge on community development and poverty control.

In the development of the organisation, RTCCD has been offered constructive and useful support from international and national NGOs, institutions, universities and individuals. We sincerely express our thanks to you. In particular, we would like to thank Mrs. Louise Buhler, Dr. Jake Buhler, Mrs. Debra Efroymson, Dr. Michael J Dibley, Professor Trudy Harpham, Mr. Vern Weitzel, Associate Professor Jane Fisher, Professor Beverly Ann Biggs and Mr. Gerard Casey for their endless support and contribution to RTCCD’s development.

From the information provided on this website, RTCCD hopes to provide further evidence of how an independent organization can be developed and sustained without financial support from the government. RTCCD proves that in Vietnam, there is potential for an independent research institution that not only conducts research and provides training courses on community development, but also is involved in policy advocacy. Based on evidence collected and generated from community development research, RTCCD prepares its own training activities to target the specific needs of community development. With research evidence, the center conducts policy advocacy through the development of papers, workshops, seminars, and training. RTCCD also develops specific models for community development based on research evidence.

RTCCD sincerely thanks you again for visiting this website, and hopes that the information provided here assists you to generate more community development projects in Vietnam as well as in other neighboring countries.