ActionAid Vietnam

Short Name

AAV

Address Line 1

18th Floor

Address Line 2

TMC building

Street - Number and Name

No. 01 Luong Yen St., Hai Ba Trung Dist.,

District

City

Ha Noi city

Province – Vietnam

Phone

+84-4-3943 9866

Fax

+84-4-3943 9872

Email Address

Contact Person – Vietnam

Mrs. Hoang Phuong Thao, Country Director

International Headquarters

Mission Statement

ActionAid is a global federation committed to finding sustainable solutions to end poverty and injustice. With more than 40 national members and country programmes worldwide, ActionAid focuses the majority of its resources on working with millions of the poorest and most excluded women, men and children. We take sides with them, making long term commitments to advance their human rights and to transform the world in which their children grow up. We support thousands of communities, partners and peoples’ movements in lower income countries to improve their lives through participatory capacity-development, solidarity, campaigns and emergency responses. ActionAid makes people-to-people links across the world with those who share our vision of a poverty free planet. ActionAid International is a unique democratic federation collectively governed by all its members, supported by an International Secretariat in Johannesburg so we can act as one organisation in solidarity with people living in poverty. Our central values of gender equality with courage of conviction drive our ambitions to innovate, take risks, promote women’s leadership and advance alternatives and lasting solutions. ActionAid International Vietnam (AAV) is an organic part of ActionAid International (AAI), working alongside people in the struggle for a world free of poverty and injustice. AAV works together with different groupings of poor and marginalized people, communities, knowledge institutions, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to make change sustainable. Our vision: A world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to life with dignity. Our mission: To work in solidarity with people living in poverty to eradicate poverty and injustice. Our values: Solidarity with people living in poverty, the powerless and the excluded; Transparency and accountability; Independence and neutrality from any religious or party-political affiliation.

History of operations in Vietnam

ActionAid started its programme in Vietnam in 1989 and in 1992 the representative office was registered in Hanoi. In 1994 some of the long term development programmes were launched aiming for poverty alleviation in four Development Areas (DAs) in Son La, Ha Tinh, Dien Bien and Ninh Thuan. AAV has gone through four different strategy phases, each identifying our understanding in the context of Vietnam and directing our actions to eradicate poverty. The first Country Strategy Paper (CSP I) was introduced in 1994. The next phase of the CSP II was launched from 1996 to 2000. The programme design was prioritized on the basis of organizational learning from the past few years. CSP III was launched during the period 2001 – 2005, structured around the analysis of Vietnam in terms of its economic and social development. CSP IV (2006 – 2010) is a continuum of AAV efforts from 1989 to make a positive and lasting difference to the lives of poor and excluded people in the country. The strategy was outlined with the analysis of unequal and unjust power relations identified as the root cause of poverty. CSP V for the period of 2012-2017 has been developed with the participation and cooperation of AAV’s different stakeholders, including communities, partners, academicians, media, policy makers and ActionAid team members. CSP V inherits the results and lessons from the last four CSPs. Based on processes of critical reviews and comprehensive consultations, CSP V seeks to confirm our solidarity with the poor and marginalized, our belief in their capacity and agency in changing the power relations and undertaking alternatives for a life with dignity. Over two decades, AAV has been recognized and is well known in the country for its contribution to the development of Vietnam.

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