- Carry out the survey and gather information to develop the traditional knowledge document
- 04 community meetings to discuss local knowledge in fisheries.
- The draft document of traditional knowledge in the Do Son fishing villages was developed.
- Survey was organized to develop the draft of pilot model
- 02 community meetings related to the consultation on the draft of 02 production models
- The test model was implemented:
+ Credit loans mining model had been implemented in 1st quarter of 2012
+ Tourism model is estimated to be implemented with 10-12 households
+ Ship building model is estimated to be implemented with 25-30 households


Result: Collection, preservation, restoration and use of traditional knowledge in the context of climate change.
1.1. Documents on traditional knowledge of fishing communities and fishing villages in management, environmental protection and marine resources has conducted acceptance.
Report on local knowledge has edited over 5 times, after acceptance of the revised, the report had completed.
1.2. The local knowledge of fishermen in Van Huong was divided by sectors
- Experience of fishing grounds and fishing seasons related to the rules of climate and weather:
"In June, from 21 to 26, there are usually 3 typhoons this days"
"If today a few tons of fish are caught, the day after none are caught, storm is coming "
-Experience to cope with storms at sea:
"Remove the sail, clamping on both sides of the boat, drift anchoring (no traction, not for long anchor rope), the boat is always being straight"
-Occupational experience
Fish flow changes over the months of the year
In the morning the fish are usually located in the basins, creeks
Watercolor can be looked for different kinds of fish, but now it is very difficult because there are not many fish as before.
- Worshiping culture
On 10/2 lunar calendar (open sea day) ? fishermen in Do Son worship at Dau island.
Before departure, fishermen of Do Son celebrate to worship Dau God
After a favorable fishing trip, fishermen of Do Son make Thanksgiving, choose a big fish to the ceremony.
--Some traditional knowledge can be well promoted in the trend of climate change.
Fishing under the assistance teams, while supporting each other when accidents occur at sea.
Worshiping culture, spiritual factors plays an important role in the community.
1.3. Document of traditional knowledge of fishing communities is popular. This document was built carefully, needed to widespread popularly.
Documents popular in the form of popular community through community meetings and training, through loudspeaker (1-2 times/day). The community did not have any comment for better dissemination.
According to the independent experts, building materials, test and dissemination of this document should comply with the regulations. However, the document does not name the author (editing team); In addition, it is better if the document was printed in the form of popular handbook.
Traditional knowledge report of fishing community is a precious document summarizing the experience of fishing communities adapt to climate change. It is a theoretical basis to support the Van Huong Ward building "Safety Fishing Group", and in the future, it will be the basis for the Ward to propose storing some traditional fishing jobs but still protect marine resources such as longline fishing.
2. Building models:
2.1. Fishing group model
- In order to overcome and minimize the risk of accidents at sea for fishing boats, GEF/SGP inVan Huong Ward focuses on the following: Enhancing the awareness on obeying labour discipline, using necessary equipments for fishermen working on the sea; to invest and support necessary equipments to ensure safety of fishermen at sea for 12 households participated in fishing group model, each household are supported: 02 lifesaver, 01 marine first aid kit, 01 storm warnings radio; People's Committees of Van Huong Ward supported 01 life- buoy saver per household.
Summarizing fishing gears, fishing grounds and fishing seasons
+) Fishing ground for offshore longline is usually located at 20-21N, 107-108 E. Main target species were Pike (Muraenesocidae), Stingrays (Dasyatidae), Grunts (Haemulidae). Fishing season is from Jan to Apr. annually.
+) Fishing ground for bottom trammel gillnet is usually located at 20-21N, 107-108,36 E. Main target species were Snappers (Lutjanidae), Cuttlefishes (Sepiidae), Shrimp (Penaeidae). Fishing season is concentrated from August to Dec. annually, sometimes it prolongs to March of the next year.

With the encouraging initial results of the model "fishing group" for 12 households involved, based on the conclusions of Ministry Cao Duc Phat in document No. 3433 / TB BNN-VP- on 05 / 7/2011 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development at Conference to develop fishing group at sea, at the same time improving the experience of traditional gillnet fisheries, Ward Farmers Association have actively recommended projects supports Ward establish and build the statutes of "production safety fishing group at sea "(called safety fishing group) to entire fisherman in Van Huong Ward. After a period of active campaigning, safety fishing group consists of 29 wooden boat (all 12 fisher household involved the "operating fishing group" are involved ?safety fishing group". There are 55 fishing boats of Van Huong Ward. Among them, 33 fishing boats were divided into 5 groups, established on June 2013
+) Group 1: 06 fishing boats using bottom trammel gillnets, 73 fishermen
+) Group 2: 06 fishing boats using fixed bottom gillnet, 40 fishermen
+) Group 3: 07 fishing boats using otter bottom trawl, 41 fishermen
+) Group 4: 07 fishing boats using otter bottom trawl, 46 fishermen
+) Group 5: 03 fishing boats using offshore longline, 30 fishermen
Chairman Board of Safety Fishing Group includes 5 people (01 is the member of the Steering Committee of the Farmers? Union, who is responsible for the Ward?s fisheries; the other 04 people are representatives of 4 different kind of fishing gear.
?Logbook? was delieved to all 29 members of the Safe Fishing Group
Economic efficiency of the Safe Fishing Fleet:
- Fishing Yield of Van Huong:
Year Production (tons) Values (VND) % Year plan
2011 1.885 41.470.000.00 102
2012 2.063 72.205.000.000 103
2013 2.049 84.009.000.000 105
The first half of 2014 1.182 49.644.000.000 55,2
Fishing yield in 2012 was 1% higher than that in 2011
Fishing yield in 2013 was 2% higher than that in 2012

- Income:
Year Total revenues Expenditure Income/01 labour
2011 987.000.000 483.000.000 74.000.000
2012 1.220.000.000 640.000.000 82.000.000
2013 1.432.000.000 750.000.000 86.000.000
The first half of 2014 826.000.000 380.000.000 46.000.000
Income of the year 2012 was 9.0% higher than that of 2011
Income of the year 2013 was 9.0% higher than that of 2011
Thanks to the support on equipments, budget and knowledge on climate change adaptation from the project, total fish catch and income of fishermen increased, compared with the plan.
The results of the model: The project contributed to the safety of fishing group on the sea. Specifically, in the three-year period of the project; there was no accident in the sea. Do Son District promulgated the decision on establishment of safe fishing fleet. In 2014, each fishing vessel was supplied 01 life buoy and 07 offshore fishing vessels were received addition of 03 life-jackets/vessel. Recently, the project has not finished yet, however, the local management unit still guides fishermen participated in the project keep track of the logbook.

VRA results:
The impacts of climate change are getting serious, the adaptive capacity of communities has been raised, averaging 6.6% after more than 02 years of project implementation. At the end of the project (after 03 years), VRA index rose to 14.9%.
2.2 Floating restaurants on boats:
- Because men mainly participated in fishing, the project paid attention to women through the combination model of fishing and floating restaurant. Using fishing boats for tourism created jobs, increased income for local communities.
- The project supported 05 households participated in the model. Each household got 01 dustbin, 02 cleaning sets.
- 01 training course on fish preservation and processing for 40 learners was held by the project (including 17 households participated in the project). The member of Expert Group went to the 05 households to train about fish preservation and processing processes. Then these 05 households would play the active communicative role for other households about that.


2.3. Credit loan model
From the real situation of local, GEF/SGP, the Steering Committee, EG, Van Huong Ward Authority came to the agreement that adjustment in the implementation of project documents: Integrating model of credit loan in 02 models ?Fishing fleet? and ?Culinary tourism on fishing boat?,
The pilot community credit model in Van Huong formed the general fund to help families develop fishing production; stabilize their livelihood for the fishing community to adapt to coastal climate change.
The Project supported Ward People?s Committee estimating Revolving Fund Management and promulgated regulations on management of the revolving fund. A Loan management unit, including:
+ President of Van Huong Ward People?s Committee ? Chief;
+Vice ? President of Van Huong Ward People?s Committee ? Deputy Chief;
+ Accoutant of Van Huong Ward ? Board secretary;
+ President of Veterants? Association ? Member;
+ President of Women Union of Van Huong Ward ? Member;
+ President of Farmers? Association of Van Huong Ward ? Member;
+ Youth Union Secretary of Van Huong Ward ? Member;
Project GEF/SGP supported 05 households to take part in the ?Culinary fishing boat? model (loan rate: 8.000.000 VND/ 01 household), 12 households took part in ?Fishing fleet? model (loan rate: 18.000.000 VND/household), loaned interest from the GEF/SGP project were 0.65%/month (in the interest of state incentives)
The Project supported Van Huong Ward constructing criteria to select suitable/eligible households.
Loan procedures for households
Management mechanisms and loan recovery
The results of the model showed that households used effectively loans, paid interest on time, loans were preserved, Revolving Fund Management of project lent a fisherman household by interest (loan rate: 18.000.000 VND, loan interest rate 0,65%/month); Accessing loans from the project contributed to restore the traditional craft in local, the households of the protection of marine fish production brought high economic efficiency,
Each production household created jobs for 08 ? 09 man workers with stable income from 50 - 60 million VND/year, typical households as Manh? household, Hoa?s household, which created jobs with income from 90 - 100 million VND/year in 2012, Food/restaurant business households as Hoa Lan Restaurant, Dam Uyen Restaurant created jobs for 20 -30 people with income from 3.000.000 ? 4.000.000 VND/month/person.
3. Community awareness raising and building capacity:
3.1. Capacity building training courses:
- A training course funded by the project that trained 29 fishermen of Van Huong Ward and one fisherman of Ngoc Hai Ward to get a Chief Engineer Certificate, Level V.
- 01 training course funded by the project that trained 40 households on fish processing and fish preservation.
- To improve the role of women in environmental protection activities and response to the program called ?5 NO, 3 CLEAN? launched by the Vietnam Women?s Union, Van Huong Women?s Union requested the Project to provide plastic market baskets for women to minimize the use of plastic bags and provide rubbish bins to protect environmental landscape. Van Huong Ward Women?s Union branches will use and protect them. This organization has put forward these ideas since the second quarter of 2013, but not until April 2014, Women?s Union received support from the Project. The project's disbursement process was slow, which was the cause of this delay. The Project provided one plastic market basket, rubbish bin for each household.

3.2. Activities for raising awareness of environmental protection:
The project co-operated with the Ward People?s Committee and other civil organizations (Youth Union, Women Union, Farmer Society Organisation, Vietnam War Veterans' Association ?) and local people to organize:
- 01 training course on waste clarification for 20 households of Van Huong Ward
- 07 times cleaning coastal environment.
+) 1st (On the Occasion of World Environment Day 05/6/2011): 50 young people from Youth Union cleaned Ben Thoc area ? Do Son area I.
+) 2nd (on the Occasion of New Year 2012 and Day 3/2): 100 people participated in cleaning environment at both sides of Cong Hong area, Population Group No 5 (PGN5), Van Huong Ward.
+) 3rd (On the occasion of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union?s establishment anniversary on 26 March 2012): 100 Youths participated in cleaning the coast of Area II, Do Son Beach.
+) 4th: ( on April 2012): 50 Youths participated in cleaning the road along the coast of Area II, Do Son Beach.
+) 5th (On the occasion of New Year 2013 and date 3/2):
100 people, including youths and pupils participated in cleaning all the roads and coastal areas, in Population Group No 5, 6, 7, Van Huong Ward
+) 6th: (Dau Island?s Festival on March 2013), environment cleaning around Dau Island. +) 7th ( April 2014): more than 100 people participated in environment cleaning in the area of the dyke II, belonging to Population Group No 5. Over 80 m3 of waste that caused environmental pollution were collected.
- To advertise the project and increase peoples? awareness of restoration and protection of fisheries resources; mainstreaming the activities of the project together with environmental protection activities of Hai Phong Association for Environment Protection. The Project coordinated with Hai Phong Division of Aquaculture, Hai Phong Fisheries and Agriculture Extension Center, local authorities and community of Van Huong Ward organized a stocking at the sea area belong to Area III, Do Son Beach in 2012.
- To be aware of the importance of people?s commitment in environment protection, the project supported Van Huong Ward People?s Committee in organizing some meetings to get information and voices of individuals and local organizations about the Village Convention on Environment. With all the efforts and mobilizations of stakeholders, on June 2013, Van Huong Ward issued and implemented the pilot Village Convention on Environment. The application of the Convention has contributed to raising local people?s awareness.
- To be aware that the waste outside the second dyke (Population Group No 5) caused the bad effects to the development of the mangrove and people?s life, especially at high tide. Therefore, a waste treatment unit were built and funded by the project on July 2013 (also with the help of Dyke management unit).
Give advice to the District Environment Division in collecting wastes of the Population Group No 5 (new activity)
The building waste treatment unit was the first step in solving the situation that disposed wastes to the mangrove. The next step, advising people at PGN5 to collecting waste for treatment. With effective mobilization, 105 households registered to implement collecting household wastes.
Otherwise, on 14-15 May 2014, the Ward People?s Committee mobilized all people from PGN5 and civil organizations clean up wastes. It was the first time the mangrove area was totally clean, without wastes.
4. Communication, information, promotion of cooperation activities between stakeholders in the project.
At the first stage of designing the proposal, the leaders of Hai Phong People?s Committee, Do Son People?s Committee strongly pay attention to the project (it was assigned a culture staff by Do Son People?s Committee to monitor the project)
The Steering Committee and the Expert Group coordinated with Van Huong Ward to launch the project (with the participation of the representative of Hai Phong People?s Committee, Do Son People?s Committee, Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI), local authorities from Hai Phong and Do Son, local communities?). The posters for project introduction (both in Vietnamese and English) was published and disseminated to the communities and target groups.
In the famework of 20th anniversary of eslishment Hai Phong Environment Protection Association, the Association coordinated with Hai Phong Television to create a movie to introduce the project. The Association regularly reports the project results to the related organizations.
With the allowance of the Steering Committee, EG regularly updates all the activities and results of the project to the Newletters of Viet Nam Institute of Fisheries and Economic Planning (VIFEP).
During the project implementation, each individual in Van Huong Ward (not only the households participated in the project) became active communicators for advertising the project.
Posters about the final results, lessons-learnt of the project; Indigenous documents, Project Technical document were published and disseminated in Van Huong Ward, Do Son Dist and Hai Phong City.
The results are valuable lessons-learnt, play a role of practical baseline for master planning and policy making to the fishermen community in the future.
Effectiveness:
Local awareness about marine and coastal environment protection was improved: Before implementing the project, fishermen used destructive gears but now this technique is no longer appeared.
All civil organizations, local authorities and communities actively participate in environmental protection.
Thanks to the project, the awareness and capacity of 100% Ward officials, fishermen, restaurant service households have improved.
Evaluation of results and objectives of the project
Traditional knowledge was conserved and used in the adaptation to CC in some project models (attached to the indigenous knowledge document)
4 practical techniques were applied in the project (including: Collecting document of traditional knowledge of fishing villages, construction and operation of fishing vessels, cuisine, utilizing support from community in preventing and dealing with the consequences of natural disasters in the sea)
Positive affects to local disaster management and marine economy. Give recommendation to policy making (Village Convention on Environment Protection).
(ii) VRA results
The impacts of climate change are getting serious, the adaptive capacity of communities has been raised, averaging 6.8% after 2 years of project implementation. At the end of the project after 2.5 years, VRA index rose to 14.9%.