Community and Rural Development

Working with the local villages to build awareness in Environment Law, Human Rights and Livelihood.  RRDPA has worked in 17 of the 18 provinces focussing at the provincial, district and village level.  RRDPA recognizes that everything and everone is connected in some way and is affected by change, great care goes into ensuring that what we do is appropriate for the community nd socially responsible.

In 2011 RRDPA completed a project working with ethnic minority villages, in remote areas that did not have access to outside knowledge that could be used alongside their own indigenous knowledge to improve their quality of life.

RRDPA has over 8 years of experience building capacity on environmental law to support the ethnic minority villagers in protecting their land rights, their land and improving their livelihoods.  RRDPA has been able to demonstrate that the villagers gain a basic understanding of environmental, labor, land and forestry laws and the process to request assistance for justice.

Contact us directly: info@rrdtc.org

Action Research

Action and decision oriented Research services providing participatory research for community development such as needs assessments, baseline surveys, PRA and other action and decision oriented research.

Contact us directly: info@rrdtc.org

Training Services

Pre-packaged or individually designed courses and training programs when and where you want them... our experienced trainers use state of the art participatory learning and action methods appropriate to the subject and target group. We focus our training methods at the provincial, district and village levels working with ethnic minorities and valuing local knowledge (IKAP).

See below for our track record.

Training fees for our Pre-packaged (Public Training) courses start at $180 USD per participant for a 5 day course.

Individually designed course fees start at around $180 USD per day and trainer depending on the level of training required, plus $100 USD per day for preparation and report writing (in Lao language). We use two trainers if there are more than 10 participants. Additional costs for individually designed courses outside of Vientiane Capital include travel costs, per diem for trainers, accommodation if needed, costs of certificates, handbooks, and materials ($8-10 USD total per participant depending on the course).

If using the RRDPA Training Center, a charge is made of $25 USD per day, meal packages can be arranged on request. 

Contact us directly: 

training@rrdtc.org


Study tours and other activities designed to suit our clients’ precise needs.

Example: a Theatre training workshop was commissioned by GAPE for their staff with CAMKID providing the theatre techniques and RRDTC and government staff the technical input, guided by Ms. Rachel Clarke, DED advisor. Currently RRDTC is setting up village networks for joint managment and protection of natural resources in Southern Laos and organising village to village exposure visits.

RRDPA's Track Record:
Workshops held between 1 January 2006 – 31 December, 2011