Result Announcement: ODV’s Data-driven Storytelling Contest – Covid-19 Pandemic
In February – March 2021, Open Development Vietnam (ODV), in collaboration with SPIDER Center, organized the Data-driven Storytelling Contest, centering around the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest aimed to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially indigenous people, to demonstrate the value of data through compelling visual class='vietnam-color'>...
Job opportunity: Content and Research Assistant - Vietnamese candidate only
Open Development Mekong is looking to hire a national Content and Research Assistant to contribute to research and content development for Open Development Vietnam (ODV) site. The role is to provide research and data support to the Content and Research Officer who manages the ODV class='vietnam-color'>...
Free incubation program for social entrepreneurs
Established in 2011, Makesense is an international NGO whose vision is to solve today’s social and environmental issues by providing incubation and capacity building activities for individuals, social entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking organizations.Act4Impact is one of Makesense Asia’s premiere social innovation program, catering to citizen-advocates who class='vietnam-color'>...
CSIP
Innovative Fund for Sustainable energy development: call for proposals
To acknowledge the importance of organization/ individuals in implementing sustainable development goals, Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) has established the Innovative Fund for Sustainable energy development. Objectives of the Innovative FundStrengthening community engagement (both individuals and organizations) and capacity in sustainable energy development at the class='vietnam-color'>...
Picture books realeased: Women Storytelling
Open Development Vietnam (ODV) has partnered with the Center for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas (CSDM) to develop storybooks shared by Tho ethnic Women and Thai ethnic women in Vietnam.Vol 1 – Stories about Tho ethnicity by Tho women in VietnamThis picture book is a class='vietnam-color'>...
The Vietnam Integrity School’s Grant calls for proposals
The Vietnam Integrity School’s (VIS) Grant supports creative ideas initiated and led by VIS graduates to promote integrity and anti-corruption in society. The grant is one part of the project “Empowering Youth in Promoting Integrity in Vietnam” implemented by Toward Transparency and funded by The class='vietnam-color'>...
Toward Transparency
Supporting women in access to social security and welfare policies
More attention should be paid to supporting women in their access to and benefiting from social security and welfare policies, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Ha Thi Nga has suggested.To contribute to clarifying this task in the coming time, in particular ensuring equal class='vietnam-color'>...
Youth Initiative Fund is calling for community development proposals
Irish Aid funded Youth Initiative Fund, managed by The Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) Vietnam is calling for community development proposals from youth groups nation-wide. The Project aims to encourage young people to contribute towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, through capacity class='vietnam-color'>...
World Bank: Digital Skills Innovation Awards for Southeast Asia
ELIGIBILITY: Public or private organizations in ASEAN countries. Individuals are not eligibleTOPIC: Accelerating the digital transformation of Southeast Asia with innovative training programs. Participating programs can teach any of the following four categories of essential skills:Specialized digital skills for information and communication technology (ICT)Professional digital skills class='vietnam-color'>...
World Bank
Call for Applications: Mekong Data Journalism Fellowship 2021
The East-West Center and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, in partnership with the Stimson Center, are jointly offering Fellowships to journalists from Mekong Basin countries that aim to strengthen their data-journalism skills and support data-driven investigations into water security challenges and solutions in the Mekong region.Selected Fellows will join a series of virtual seminars with experts in fields such as class='vietnam-color'>...
Earth Journalism Network
Talent Generation 2018
Talent Generation Contest 2018 is for Vietnamese citizens who are students and employees with less than 3 years of experience. The competency assessment is designed to help students better understand their core competencies before entering the professional work environment. This activity is part of the Today’s class='vietnam-color'>...
Mekong Environment Forum Workshop "Building Community Capacity in Response to Mekong Delta Environmental Changes"
A workshop themed “Building Community Capacity in Response to Mekong Delta Environmental Changes” will be held in Can Tho City on December 28, 2017.The workshop will be jointly organized by the Mekong Environment Forum (MEF), Pan Nature, Open Development Mekong Initiative (ODM), and Can Tho class='vietnam-color'>...
Mekong Environment Forum
Asia Open Data Partnership Summit 2021
This is the first time the Asia Open Data Partnership Summit is hosted in Vietnam. With the theme of “Data Exchange & Industrial Collaboration” AODP Summit 2021 aims to promote public-private and business-business partnerships in open data reusability and commercialization, advocate for open data with class='vietnam-color'>...
AODP
Data literacy training
IntroductionData literacy is the ability to read, understand, work with, analyze, and argue with data. It is also the ability to derive meaningful information from data. Data literacy is not simply the ability to read the text since it requires quantitative and analytical skills (for class='vietnam-color'>...
Open Development Vietnam
The Spring 2020 YSEALI Academic Fellowship
The U.S. Mission to Vietnam seeks candidates for the Spring 2020 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship on civic engagement, environmental issues and natural resource management, and social entrepreneurship and economic development.Vietnamese citizens between the ages of 18 and 25, full-time undergraduate students class='vietnam-color'>...
US Embassy in Vietnam
Vietnam Sustainability Forum 2020 calls for papers
The 2020 Vietnam Sustainability Forum (VSF-2020), co-organized by the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global) and the Academy of Policy and Development, will take place on 23–24 March 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam.It aims at providing an international exchange platform for global leaders and class='vietnam-color'>...
CFI: launch of the Mekong Media Initiative
CFI launches a scheme to support online newsrooms in the Mekong region to publish content on environment, health and sustainable development.With the support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and as part of its Mekong: Sustainable News project, CFI will help local newsrooms to class='vietnam-color'>...
CFI Media Development
Locally Controlled Forest Restoration (LoCoFoRest) training programme: calls for application
The LoCoFoRest (Locally Controlled Forest Restoration) training programme focuses on one critical question: How can we scale up restoration of forest landscapes while securing the prosperity of local communities and maintaining and improving ecosystem services?LoCoFoRest will build capacity in national, regional and local institutions and class='vietnam-color'>...
Swedish Forest Agency
SEAΔ Program 2020-2021: Calls for application
SEAΔ is a program co-created by Mekong Cultural Hub and British Council which creates space for cultural practitioners to reflect on how their work in arts and culture can contribute to sustainable development within South East Asia through their individual and collective leadership.Each year we will select 10 class='vietnam-color'>...
Training: Sustainable Power System Planning for Vietnam
The “Sustainable Power System Planning for Vietnam” training will focus on sustainable and integrated power system planning for Vietnam and will allow participants to get an in-depth view into co-benefits analysis and methodologies.The Renewables Academy (RENAC) is offering this training together with GreenID Vietnam within class='vietnam-color'>...
GreenID Vietnam