In early August 2026, CKC conducted fieldwork for the study “Women’s Roles in Accessing and Using Green Finance in Traditional Handicraft Supply Chains Linked to Service Development in Phong Dinh ward, Hue city.”

The study uses a supply chain approach as its main analytical framework, while integrating a gender lens across all stages of the chain. This approach aims to examine women’s participation, roles, decision-making power, and access to green financial resources within the traditional handicraft sector.

During the fieldwork, the research team engaged with a diverse range of stakeholders involved in Phong Dinh’s two distinctive traditional craft supply chains: pottery and sedge products. Research participants included producing households, collectors and traders, product-buying and product-development enterprises, local government representatives, relevant agencies and organizations, banks, and other financial institutions.

Through its transdisciplinary social research approach, CKC seeks not only to generate academic knowledge but also tocontribute directly to local development processes. The study’s findings will be developed into a scientific journal article and a policy brief, providing evidence-based recommendations to support the advancement of women-led green economic development policies at the local level.

For CKC, research is more than the production of knowledge. It is a process of ensuring that evidence gathered from communities is translated back into benefits for those communities through practical recommendations and context-appropriate development solutions. This reflects CKC’s approach of “research accompanying development” by connecting field-based evidence with scientific knowledge and translating knowledge into meaningful and sustainable change.

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The research is being conducted as a part of the “Women-Led Development of Eco-Friendly Handicraft Supply Chains for Tourism and Services in Phong Dinh Ward, Hue City” (PWG–Phong Dinh) Project, funded by the “Women-led Green Transition” (PWG) Project under the “Women-Led Green Partnership Program” funded by the European Union, managed by Oxfam in Vietnam, and implemented by the CKC in collaboration with the Phong Dinh Ward Women’s Union and Kido Company.

All images below were taken with the consent of participants. Please contact CKC before using these images for any purpose beyond the Project’s official communications.

(My Le)