RAFS Science Group in Vietnam: Q&A with Natascia Palmieri and Ben Bennett

From 3 to 10 April 2024, Ben Bennett and Natascia Palmieri, the team in charge of the Resilient Agrifood Systems (RAFS) Science Group evaluation, visited Vietnam to gather firsthand information about CGIAR’s activities in the country. After their return, the two met with other evaluators to answer questions about their initial impressions.

Q: How was this field trip structured?

Natascia Palmieri (NP): We divided up at the beginning of the mission, so Ben was in Dong Nai, in a region where some of the activities of the One Health initiative were taking place, meeting with some of the stakeholders both internal to CGIAR and external, and at the same time I was in Chan Tho, which is in the South, attending high-level events organized under two of the Initiatives that we are assessing. I was able to meet with some of the external partners involved in those two Initiatives and to have some interviews and focus group discussions with them.