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Dengue-Safe Water Supply in Southern and Central Viet Nam

Objectives: To facilitate and support affected communities and water and health organizations adopt evidence-based methods, practices and new institutional arrangements to mitigate water supply related dengue risk.

Total funding: A$4,610,000 (excluding the design cost of $91,227)
Duration: 5 years (30/10/2005 – 30/04/2010)
Location: Cuu Long Delta: Long An, Vinh Long, Ben Tre

Project Components

  • Component 1: will build capacity of CERWASS agencies to respond water supply-related dengue risk during the planning, design and construction phases of infrastructure development.
  • Component 2: will build capacity within the NDP at the national, regional and provincial levels to support CERWASS agencies and affected communities to intervene and address water related dengue risk..
  • Component 3: will enable and support affected communities to mitigate water supply related dengue risk.
  • Component 4: Project management

Expected Outcomes

  • Improved health and productivity through decrease in dengue morbidity from water related diseases for people in minimum 40% of the Cuu Long RWSS target communes.
  • Maximise benefits from current AusAID funded water supply project in Southern Vietnam through the delivery of safe water-supply infrastructure.
  • Improved capacity of Centre for Water Supply and Sanitation (CERWASS), the National Dengue Program Team (NDPT), Preventive Medicine Centres (PMCs) to monitor and respond to water related dengue risk.
  • Establish a foundation within the water and health sectors for wider expansion of program models, approaches and methodologies.

Implementing Agency

AFAP - Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific Ltd
Contact Officer:
Simon Kutcher
(848) 848 2864
0903403298
simon@afapvn.org

Vietnam Counterpart Agencies

Centre for Water Supply and Sanitation (CERWASS) Health: Administration of Preventive and Medicine, Viet Nam Ministry of Health

AusAID's Contact person

Mr Nguyen Van Hue
Senior Program Manager, MD Rural Development Sector
5B Ton Duc Thang, QI,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Phone: (84 8) 829 6035 ext. 169
Fax: (84 8) 822 6201
nguyen-van.hue@dfat.gov.au

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