I.Background The CD project has been active in provincial Vietnam since 2008. The project is working in Mother and Child Health (MCH) and aims to reduce disability through primary prevention by improvement of preconception and newborn care. Furthermore, the project aims to reduce disability through secondary prevention by improvement in newborn screening, early detection and early intervention of newborn and childhood disability. Handicap International Vietnam has one other MCH project. Some activities have been replicated in both projects, while some activities remain the focus of one project only. Handicap International Vietnam will present one reproducible model of Mother and Child health care to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health in 2013.
I. Background The WTL project has been active in provincial Vietnam since 2006. The project is working in Mother and Child Health (MCH) and aims to reduce disability through primary prevention by improvement of pregnancy, birth and newborn care. Furthermore, the project aims to reduce disability through secondary prevention by improvement in early detection and early intervention of newborn and childhood disability. Handicap International Vietnam has one other MCH project. Some activities have been replicated in both projects, while some activities remain the focus of one project only. Handicap International Vietnam will present one reproducible model of Mother and Child health care to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health in 2013.
The Project: “Strengthen Capacity for implementing and monitoring Policies on ethnic minorities ” (EMPCD) funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for 2008-2012 to improve capacity for CEMA and Department of Ethnic Minority Affairs (DEMA) of Lai Chau, Quang Nam and Binh Phuoc in formulating, implementing and monitoring policies on ethnic minorities. The project’s objectives are to improve capacity for CEMA and DEMAs of the aforementioned provinces in formulating, disseminating, implementing and monitoring Ethnic Minorities-related policies in a scientific and participatory method.
The Project: “Strengthen Capacity for implementing and monitoring Policies on ethnic minorities ” (EMPCD) funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for 2008-2012 to improve capacity for CEMA and Department of Ethnic Minority Affairs (DEMA) of Lai Chau, Quang Nam and Binh Phuoc in formulating, implementing and monitoring policies on ethnic minorities. The project’s activities are based on the performance result of the VIE02/001 project which supports the “National Target Program for Poverty Reduction” and “the Socio-economic development program for Ethnic Minorities and mountainous areas- Program 135-II”. The project will focus on 3 capacity-related aspects: institutional development; strengthen leadership capacity and strengthen staff capacity.
