Leadership 4.0 in Development and Disaster Resilience
The Asian Institute of Management – Stephen Zuellig Graduate School of Development Management will conduct the Leadership 4.0 in Development and Disaster Resilience masterclass, for the AIM Roadshow in Vietnam where leadership masterclasses on business, development, innovation, and data science will be presented. The program will lass='vietnam-color'>...
Project promotes gender equality among Bru-Van Kieu ethnic community
A workshop was held in the central province of Quang Binh on May 10 to introduce a project to improve access to vocational training to enhance the quality of human resources and economic empowerment, contributing to promoting gender equality for local women and female students lass='vietnam-color'>...
Development and assistance for ethnic minorities and indigenous people
Vietnam’s civil society and ethnic minoritiesIntroductionIn Vietnam, ethnic minorities are supported by a network of non-governmental organizations, known as “civil society”. Civil society includes international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), Vietnamese mass organizations, Vietnamese umbrella organizations, Vietnamese NGOs (VNGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and professional organizations, although professional lass='vietnam-color'>...
Scholarship Program for Master in Development Management at Asian Institute of Mamagement
The Asian Development Bank–Japan Scholarship Program and the Asian Institute of Management aim to achieve a prosperous, sustainable, inclusive, and resilient Asia.Through the Master in Development Management (MDM) 12-month, full time program, students are equipped to be Leaders for Development and Sustainability – capable to lass='vietnam-color'>...
(Tiếng Việt) Một vài nét tổng quan về ngành công nghiệp khai khoáng của Việt Nam
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ODI awards Can Tho University – Vietnam for contributing datasets on Mekong environment
As part of the Mekong Environment Forum and Can Tho University workshop on Building Community Capacity, the East-West Management Institute Open Development Initiative (ODI) supported a call for data submission to engage young and innovative Vietnamese citizen scientists to develop, implement and produce data driven lass='vietnam-color'>...
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 lass='vietnam-color'>...
Data-driven Storytelling Contest - Deadline extension
About the ContestThe purpose of this contest is to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially those who identify as Indigenous Peoples, to demonstrate the value of data through effective visual data storytelling, and to contribute to the open data community by increasing the accessibility of lass='vietnam-color'>...
Water resources
Water resources in Vietnam are quite diverse, comprising both natural and artificial water bodies. The countries water resources are under increasing pressure from over-exploitation due to increased irrigation demand, urban and industrial development, as well as concentrated areas of increasing population. 103 Ensuring national water security is lass='vietnam-color'>...
Land classifications
Land ConsolidationLand in Vietnam is divided into extremely small parcels by world standards. The average agricultural Landholding is 1,560 square meters per capita, which is less than one-third of standard holdings in ThaiLand or Cambodia. Up to 70% of rural households have Land use rights Lass='vietnam-color'>...
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 lass='vietnam-color'>...
Infrastructure
Investment in public infrastructure has been one of the key driving forces for Vietnam’s economic development over recent decades. Infrastructure accounted for 53% of total Official Development Assistance (ODA) received between 2010-2017.263Vietnam has heavily invested in transportation, particularly roads, airports, and seaports. Vietnam’s public and lass='vietnam-color'>...
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
IntroductionVietnam is considered a multi-ethnic country, made up of 54 ethnic groups. The Kinh ethnic group makes up 85.4% of Vietnam’s population, or 78.32 million people. The remaining 53 ethnic groups make up only 14.6% of the country’s population (see Table 1).323Although Vietnam voted in lass='vietnam-color'>...