Social development

The report reviews sector achievements and challenges as well as the Government of Viet Nam’s strategy and policies. It also outlines how the Asian Development Bank and other development partners have contributed to the sector. The report provides recommendations on measures to boost access to ...

 Ethnic customs and traditions are unique to people and entrenched in their belief systems that are connected to the land and nature. This series of documentary films, developed by Culture Identity and Resources Use Management (CIRUM), explore religion and customary practices through storytelling engage indigenous ...

The YSEALI Professional Fellows Program provides emerging leaders ages 25-35 the opportunity to spend five weeks in the United States, including four weeks working directly with American counterparts in individually tailored work placements with relevant private and/or public sector organizations.  During these placements, Fellows build their ...

The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) will organize the 6th Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED (Global Citizenship Education) from 25 to 31 May 2020.The one-week Workshop aims to build capacity of dynamic youth leaders around the world to identify strategies to achieve ...

Young ASEAN Leaders Policy Initiative (YALPI) is an international forum which gathers and empowers youths to solve current social issues from the bottom-up aspect. Our goal is to create policy recommendations and Youth Outlook on the Future of ASEAN to influence the shaping of socio-political ...

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 ...

The eMpowering Youths Across ASEAN (EYAA) is a partnership programme between Maybank Foundation and ASEAN Foundation that aims to alleviate poverty and improve the social and economic well-being of ASEAN communities through youth volunteerism and social innovation.Each accepted participant will be grouped with 9 other ...

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 ...

Culture Identity and Resources Use Management (CIRUM), one of OD Mekong’s partners in Vietnam has published a paper titled “How can Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) be promoted and mainstreamed within open data movements?”Considering Indigenous rights in the open data and technology space is a relatively ...

SDG Challenge 2019: Innovative solutions to support accessibility for Persons with Disabilities is co-organised by the National Start-up Support Center (NSSC) and UNDP in Vietnam. It aims at finding and incubating impact start-ups which provide innovative solutions to support accessibility for Persons with Disabilities, and ...