Sustainable Development Goals
Mekong Women in Data: Understanding barriers to women’s access to open data in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam
Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. At the Open Development Initiative, we wanted to understand how this impacted women in the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) in their access to open data.In 2019, ...
Open Development Mekong
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
Report: Multidimensional Inequality (MIF) in Vietnam
Vietnam has achieved great economic development over the past 30 years. However, there is growing concern over increasing inequalities in other aspects of life, in particular opportunities and voice for certain population subgroups. Meanwhile, there is still a sizeable and significant lacuna in multidimensional analysis ...
MDRI & Oxfam
Resilient Shores: Vietnam’s Coastal Development Between Opportunity and Disaster Risk
The ongoing devastating storms and floods that battered the central part of Vietnam are the latest evidence of a worrying trend that natural risks, which have already been substantial, are intensifying due to rapid urbanization, economic development, and climate change. Resilient Shores, a report jointly developed ...
World Bank
Monitoring households and firms in Vietnam during COVID-19
In order to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on Vietnamese firms, the World Bank designed a Business Pulse Survey (BPS) to assess the various channels of impact of the pandemic on firms, their adjustment strategies, and public policy responses. The firm surveys are being collected ...
World Bank
Policy Brief for Vietnam: Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020
The Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index 2020 is a multidimensional index which ranks 158 countries on their policy performance to reduce inequality through public services, progressive taxation and labour rights.Overall, Vietnam does well on the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRII) within ASEAN, coming ...
Oxfam Vietnam
Report: Assessment on Employability Skills Gaps and Good Practices by Businesses to Upskill Marginalized and Vulnerable Young People
Concerned with expanding education and building skills for future employment, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), UNICEF and the Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI) have released a report entitled “Assessment on Employability Skills Gaps and Good Practices by Businesses to Upskill Marginalized and ...
MDRI
UNDP Call for Proposals: Grant to Advance Responsible Business Practice for Environmental Protection
UNDP is awarding a Grant of up to $50,000 for organizations in Viet Nam to promote environmentally responsible business practices. The Grant award is open for civil society and non-governmental organizations, including academic or educational institutions that are not state-owned or for-profit, and should be ...
Confronting COVID-19 second waves: How “big data for good” can inform policy in Vietnam
Initially undertaking full-fledged national lockdowns, governments are increasingly seeking more selective and localized public health interventions. Notable amongst these countries are Australia (Melbourne), Spain (Cataluña), and China (Beijing) with their recent focus on highly targeted interventions. Can such an approach be effective in controlling the ...
UN Assessment on Economic Impacts of COVID-19 and strategic policy recommendations for Viet Nam
This report presents an assessment of the economic impact of the pandemic on vulnerable groups, households and enterprises based on information produced by the Government of Viet Nam, other international development partners and the United Nations agencies in Viet Nam. It is aimed at helping ...
UNDP Vietnam