With funding of around EUR 80 million over nearly six decades, MCNV has accompanied Vietnam across four pillars: health development, social inclusion, climate change adaptation, and livelihood improvement, bringing tangible benefits to hundreds of thousands of people.

On August 1 in Hanoi, President of the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) Phan Anh Son, received Doseba Tua Sinay, Country Director of World Vision International (WVI) in Vietnam. During the meeting, President Phan Anh Son put forward several proposals to improve the effectiveness of WVI’s project implementation in Vietnam in the time ahead.

Beyond emergency aid, the Yagi Typhoon Recovery Project implemented by Oxfam and its partners in Lao Cai, Yen Bai, and Hoa Binh (now Lao Cai and Phu Tho) also aims at livelihood restoration and sustainable development. Thoi Dai magazine interviewed Pham Quang Tu, Deputy Country Director of Oxfam in Vietnam, to clarify the dual approach of relief and recovery, and the key policy lessons drawn from local practice.

On July 17 in Hanoi, the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations and the Committee for Foreign Non-Governmental Organization Affairs (the Committee) jointly held an information-sharing conference with foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The hybrid-format conference aimed to assist these organizations in adapting to the ongoing restructuring of administrative units in Vietnam, while also enhancing connectivity, information exchange, and activity orientation in the coming period.