Plantwise Country Plans 2014
Country:
Vietnam
CABI Region: South East Asia
Year:
2014
Plantwise start date: January, 2012
Team: Siva Annamalai, Malvika Chaudhary
1. Developing/Strengthening national partnerships
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Conduct a 1-day meeting with National Steering Committee (NSC) and NCU members to
discuss ways and mechanisms towards national ownership of PW using national resources
(1.4)
Conduct a 1-day national forum of stakeholders for 20 people representing Vietnam Academy
of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), PPD, Plant Quarantine Diagnostic Center, PPD (PQDC-PPD),
Southern Horticultural Research Institute (SOFRI), Northern Mountainous Agriculture and
Forestry Science Institute – NOMAFSI universities (e.g. Hanoi Agriculture University), agrodealers and others to constitute a National Steering Committee (NSC) of 8 members (1.5)
Plan and conduct a 1-day workshop for the newly constituted NSC of 8 members to develop
their TORs and communication strategy and to identify a National Data and M&E Manager
(1.5)
Describe and characterise existing plant health system stakeholders, considering their
mandates, responsibilities/functions and linkages (1.5)
2. Trainings
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Plan and conduct 1 Module 1 training(s) for 25 trainees (1.8)
Plan and conduct 1 Module 2 training(s) for 25 trainees (1.8)
Plan and conduct Data Management training module for 10 participants (3.1)
Train 10 plant doctors, supervisors and selected members of the support network in the
Monitoring Plant Clinic Performance module (5.2; 5.3)
3. Establish network of plant clinics
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Identify and set up PCs in 1 new province (Son La Province, mountainous region in the
Northern Vietnam) for scaling out activities in addition to the 4 provinces (Ben Tre and Tien
Giang in the South and Hung Yen and Vinh Phuc in the North) that currently run (1.9)
Establish and operationalise 25 new PCs (5 each per province) after training in Module 1&2
(1.9; 1.10)
Establish 2 plant clinic clusters, hold 1cluster meetings as a feedback mechanism for
performance monitoring, quality assurance, and data information review.
4. Support materials for plant doctors and farmers
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Identify key crops/pests and develop 15 new Pest Management Decision Guides by trained
national experts (2.7; 4.4)
Identify key crops/pests and develop 15 new factsheets by trained national experts (2.7; 4.4)
5. In-country data management
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Identify national extension-related information sources and materials (4.5)
Train data management staff and Plant Doctors on plant clinic data validation for quality
assurance (4.6)
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6. Monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment
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Identify personnel to conduct plant clinic monitoring (5.1)
Conduct workshop with national partners to conceptualise and agree on monitoring systems
(5.1)
7. Plant clinic linkages
Linking plant clinics with agro-input suppliers
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Prepare guidelines for plant doctors to create directories of input suppliers and their inventories
from each clinic. (2.3)
Consultative workshop to strengthen the linkages between PCs and agro-dealers in each PCs
location (2.6)
Linking with diagnostic services
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Initiate a 3-day workshop/training with relevant national diagnostic laboratories to review
protocols and methods for diagnostics, issues related to sample submission and analyses and
feedbacks from laboratories (3.6)
Plant health rallies and mass extension campaigns
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Hold 3 plant health rallies with 211 farmers (3.3)
8. In-country scaling-up of Plantwise
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Backstopping national trainers through method and material support, performance review &
feedback, exchange visits and provision of training materials (1.7)
9. Advocacy and public awareness
Public awareness
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With help of VAAS publicity material would be produced
Embedding Module 1&2 and PHS approaches in diploma or degree level training
No activity planned for 2014
10. Review and planning
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Conduct a 1-day meeting with the national coordination unit (National Coordinator, National
Data Manager, National M&E Manager) to internalise the 2014 plan and develop workflows
(1.4)
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