Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA): National apex and union of cooperatives of Vietnam represent and protect the rights and interest of cooperatives, cooperative federations and members. VCA has a special role to ensure the exchange between farmers organizations and other stakeholders at the national level. VCA links and collaborates with other national forestry actors (government, other farmers/forest producer organizations), and provide lobby and advocacy services in support of achievement of project objectives and thus to gain visibility to the challenges and opportunities that smallholders experience in the project target areas.