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SPIEEP: End of Project Report3.1.3.4 Youth Association and Women’s Union environmental activitiesThese activities comprised of planning and training workshops for activities relating toenvironmental education or awareness raising.Objective• To develop a plan of environmental activities for the Youth Association andWomen’s Union for the near future.ActivitiesTwo planning and 10 training workshops were attended by commune and villagerepresentatives of the Youth Association and Women’s Union. The planning workshopsrevolved around a discussion of four questions relating to environmental activities (seebox 6). Having discussed the questions, ideas were presented and future activitiesplanned.BOX 7. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION ON ENVIRONMENTALACTIVITIES1: What do they think are the major environmental issues/concerns regarding their localenvironment (Sa Pa district, focussing on their own communes)? Cause(s), solution(s)?2: What activities (general) are you implementing now? (regular meetings, training, etc.)3: What kind of activities would you like to do more of? (agricultural extension, familyplanning, environmental training, bee keeping, etc)4: In order to implement these activities, what kind of support do you need?Specific discussion outputs are presented inappendix 5. The main requirements of thetwo different groups were similar indesiring assistance for environmentalactivities in local areas and the developmentof action plans for members of the YouthAssociation and Women’s Union.The training workshops consisted ofspecifically addressing environmental issuesfor particular areas. For example, in oneIntegrating medicinal plants and environmentaleducationFrontier Vietnam Environment Research Report 23 12