NGOs and Community Development

The Vietnam-Australia Development Cooperation Program supports a range of community level activities. These include major partnership programs between Australian NGOs and local communities.

They may also involve small-scale activities emerging from local communities and implemented by local authorities (commune/district people's committees), local mass organizations (Youth Union, Women's Union, Father Front), local and international NGOs and other institutions around Vietnam.

Funding mechanisms include:

Australia is supporting a range of initiatives through these schemes such as

Provision of clean water and sanitation for rural poor in the Mekong Delta through CARE Australia
Participatory disaster management in Dong Thap and Tien Giang through Oxfam Australia
Establishment of community-based wetlands management system in the coastal areas of Ha Tinh through Vinh University
Livelihood improvement for poor women living in the buffer zone of Tam Dao National Park
education assistance for orphans at Nguyen Viet Xuan Orphanage and Birla Center in Hanoi
Support for the rehabilitation of trafficked women in the northern area of Vietnam through the Reproductive and Family Health Center.

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