Vietnam looks to digitalise COVID-19 vaccination database
Military-run telecom group Viettel has developed a digital health record system that allows people to register for COVID-19 vaccination, make health declarations, and receive information on time and venue for the inoculation online.People can register to schedule a COVID-19 immunisation appointment on the system, which ...
Drought, water shortages pose a big threat
Professor Trần Thục, chairman of the Vietnam Association of Meteorology and Hydrology, told the Voice of Việt Nam (VOV) online newspaper that Vietnamese central provinces are likely to suffer from severe drought and salt intrusion in the 2019-20 dry season. From the onset of 2019, the National Centre for ...
First national forum held on engaging men in promoting gender equality
A national forum on “Engaging Men and Boys in the Promotion of Gender Equality and the Elimination of Gender-based Violence” was held for the first time in Hanoi with 200 delegates participating both online and in person.The forum was jointly held by UN Women in ...
Vietnam hosts international conference on tackling plastic waste pollution in oceans
The Vietnam Administration of Sea and Islands, in coordination with the UN Environment Programme and the World Wide Fund for Nature, hosted an international conference in both online and in-person formats on solutions to handling plastic waste in East Asian seas from November 24-26.Within the ...
CSIP announced survey report “Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on social impact-generating enterprises”
The survey report “Impacts of the Covid-19 epidemic on social enterprises and support needs assessment” synthesized by CSIP after surveying 78 social impact-generating enterprises and online interviews with some social enterprises on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.The report provides:– Key findings of the survey: ...
CSIP
Trade-offs in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
Nearly 500 readers took part in an online seminar with Dr. Vu Thanh Tu Anh, Director of the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, on the topic: Covid-19 pandemic: Impacts and the Government’s response.In the current context, there is an urgent need for each ...
Thanh Lam
eMpowering Youths Across ASEAN (EYAA): Calls for applications
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 ...
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 ...
US Embassy in Vietnam
Scholarship program for the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices
Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam and Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies announce that the online application for the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) for 2018-2019 is now open (http://dpp.graduateinstitute.ch/home.html). Scholarships are available for candidates coming from the Mekong Region (Vietnam, ...
AIT-VN
Vietnam Digital Transformation Agenda
Vietnam is pushing toward Industry 4.0 with the government’s Digital Transformation Agenda (DTA) to leverage digital technologies to drive economic growth, improve governance, and promote social development. Digital transformation is being promoted as the key to unlocking the country’s two primary development goals: achieving net ...
Vietnam Summer School of Science 2019 calls for application
Vietnam Summer School of Science (VSSS) is an annual free academic summer school for aspiring Vietnamese students and young scientists who are keen on pursuing research as a career. VSSS 2019 marks the 7th year journey with Vietnamese youth.Time: From 22-25/07/2019Venue: International Center for Interdisciplinary ...
Call for Application: Enterprising for Development Program to create impacts on agriculture value chain (EFD 2)
EFD 2 is the second phase of Enterprising for Development Program (EFD). Its first phase was successfully launched from 2015 to 2018. To further develop the program, Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP), with technical and financial support from Oxfam, continues to implement the second phase of ...
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 ...
CFI Media Development
Opportunity to advance gender equality for entrepreneurs, leaders, and investors
To achieve the mission to transform the world through a new approach to sustainable peace, Investment Exchange (IIX) believe that we must address the root causes of inequality and injustice in the world, especially gender inequality. IIX’s projects and activities are aiming at eliminating inequality, injustice, ...
Free-of-charge Training - Assessment Methods & Tools for Co-Benefits of Renewable Energy
The Renewables Academy (RENAC) is offering this training together with GreenID and adelphi within the scholarship programme COBENEFITS.The face-to-face training will take place in Ha Noi, at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, from Tuesday 01 October until Wednesday 02 October 2019, 9:00 – 17:00.Training coverage: ...
GreenID
Application Open for the 6th Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED
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 ...
UNESCO-APCEIU
Climate Change
Climate Change (CC) is the change in weather, and related patterns of oceans, land, surface, and ice sheets such as temperature, ice melt, and sea level rise. While CC has historically been a natural occurrence, current CC is believed to be caused by human activities ...
2020-2021 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program Call for Applications
The U.S. Mission in Vietnam is pleased to announce the 2020-2021 competition for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. The Humphrey Fellowship is a one-year, non-degree, full scholarship program offered to promising mid-career professionals who have a proven track record of leadership, and a strong commitment to public service. ...
US Embassy in Vietnam
Funding opportunity – Final round of Aus4Innovation Partnership grants is now open
The second and final round of Aus4Innovation Partnership Grants under the theme “Scaling existing Australia–Vietnam Innovation Partnerships” is now open for applications with 2.32 million AUD funding available.Innovative ideas from existing Australia-Vietnam partnerships that enhance Vietnam’s Innovation Ecosystem to bring about long-term, sustainable societal impacts ...
Aus4Innovation
Nominations Open: Journalism for an Equitable Asia Award 2020-21 - Theme: Inequality crisis and the pandemic
Asia, just like the rest of the world, is grappling with COVID-19. Despite tremendous economic growth and advances in healthcare, technology, and elsewhere during the preceding decades, we are struggling to overcome the pandemic and the resultant economic and social fallouts. Journalism for an Equitable Asia ...
Oxfam VietnamSDG
