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Contributing to conserve herbal gen and improve livelihood of Dao ethnic minority through developing herbal bath service for community-tourism in Quan Ba commune, Quan Ba district

1 Project Objectives
a) Overal objective:
Contribute to the sustainable development of medicinal plants genes, raw material supply and indigenous knowledge of Dao?s medicinal sauna through piloting equitable community benefit sharing (ABS) mechanism of medicinal sauna services and products in Nam Dam community cooperative.
b) Specific objectives:
1. Maintain and preserve Dao?s medicinal sauna products through implementing sustainable forest harvesting, in compliance with GACP-WHO standards, and researching the cultivation of rare and at-risk species.
2. Establish Dao?s medicinal sauna services in Nam Dam community cooperative on the basis of mobilizing community resources; professionalizing the provision of sauna services and products, in combination with promoting local tourism.
3. Pilot ABS mechanism in the production and sales of Dao?s medicinal sauna products.

2 Expected Results
Objective 1 results:
- Determine existing raw material supply sources for medicinal sauna in Quan Ba commune. Select out 2-3 rare plant species used in the sauna for further study and planting in Quan Ba commune.
- Establish a nursery of about 200 medicinal plants in Nam Dam cooperative, with the participation of 20-30 households in conserving medicinal plants in their own gardens.
- Develop and implement sustainable forest harvesting, in compliance with GACP-WHO standards.
- Strengthen capacity of people living in Nam Dam village, Quan Ba commune, in sustainable forest harvesting and exploitation of forest medicinal plants, in accordance with the current laws.
- Medicial sauna products will include 1-2 essential oil products. Sauna products are bottled before sold to tourists.
Objective 2 results:
- Establish medicinal sauna services and essential oil distillation in Nam Dam cooperative. The service team will recieve capacity building and skills training.
- Develop guideline on organizing medicinal sauna services in order to improve service quality at the cooperative.
- The cooperative sauna facilities are upgraded, renovated and added with support services to achieve high level of professionalism, suitable for the local conditions, and contribute to attract tourists.
- Nam Dam medicinal sauna services are well-known among tourists and recognized as a popular attraction in Quan Ba.

Objective 3 results:
- Establish and enforce regulations on equitable benefit-sharing among community members of the cooperative.
- Promote Dao?s medicinal sauna service in Nam Dam village; strengthen people?s capacity in promotional skills.
- Enhance people?s awareness on sustainable conservation of medicinal plants. The sharing of medicinal genetic resources and indigenous knowledge is carried out with the consent and agreement of the community.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Centre for Research and Development of Ethnomedicinal Plants

Country:

Viet nam

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP5 (Extended Period)

Grant Amount:

US$ 50,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 39,487.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 10,792.00

Project Number:

VNM/SGP/OP5/Y4/STAR/2015/05

Start Date:

11/2015

End Date:

1/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Policy Influence

The project has successfully advocated the local authorities to apply the district's priority policies and funds to the development of the community organization in Nam Dam Cooperative as well as support trade promotion of products through fairs/exhibition. Provincial department of Science and Technology have also developed the plan of investing fund for science and technology projects to complete the production process of herbal products in Nam ?am Cooperative. They are pioneering national programme on one village one product. The best lessons as well as practices have been shared with UNDP/GEF project on ABS.

Project Results

Nam ?am village located in Dong Van Geo Plateau Kart Park. The village has 47 households, including 235 people, where Dao Cham people live. The Dao people has a long tradition in using medicinal herbs for health care. With the advent of Nam Dam Community Co-operative, the development of herbal bath services has been started to get attention. However, herbal bath implemented by the Nam ?am community co-operative is still inceptive and in shortage of facilities; the bathing services are only seasonal and conducted in short term; there is no direction for effective and sustainable development, especially the conservation of the medicinal plants source has not been paid attention. The SGP project aim to (i) professionally organize herbal bath services at Nam Dam Co-operative; (ii) support the sustainable herb collection from forests according to GCP-WHO standards; and (iii) pilot implementation of fair and equitable access and benefit sharing (ABS), which is obtained from community-based herbal bath, and initially branding the product.
The project activities attract a lot of ethnic women with the rate of 70-90%. Most of the local members involved in the project are Dao ethnic. These people are mostly between the ages of 18 and 35. The project also trained young IP women in herbal bath and experience tourism. The project has engaged the Young Dao people to build the medicinal gardens in the locality, making the medicinal garden to become a place for cultural exchange, knowledge and tourism development. With the project efforts to bring young people closer to the conservation of medicinal plants and local culture through the chain of activities entitled Stone Blossoming in Quan Ba secondary school with the participation of the school board, teachers, parents and pupils, Quan Ba Secondary School has put the program of sightseeing and experience at Nam Dam Cooperative in one of the school's annual extracurricular programs. Many local schools have also learned this model, creating great effects in the community.

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