Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association
Short Name
Borda
Address Line 1
No. 210
Address Line 2
Vietnam Academy for Water Resources
Street - Number and Name
171 Tay Son
District
City
Hanoi
Province – Vietnam
Phone
+84-4-3762 9580/81
Fax
+84-4-3762 9579
Email Address
Contact Person – Vietnam
Pham Thi Hai Yen
Vietnam Website
International Website
International Headquarters
Mission Statement
Programme Philosophy: BORDA's objective is the improvement of living conditions and social structures of underprivileged and disadvantaged people through the promotion of environment-friendly means of basic-needs oriented technologies based on the utilisation of renewable energies. BORDA is of the conviction that dissemination of environmentally-friendly technologies should be embedded as an integral part in a framework of awareness-creation and promotion of self-help capacity, in order to safeguard acceptance and sustainability of measures pertinent to development. BORDA emphasises networking and interrelations among its projects in order to optimise sustainability and efficiency of region-specific project measures. BORDA promotes the exchange of experience by South-South Transfer.
History of operations in Vietnam
BORDA focuses in Vietnam since 2001 on development co-operations aiming at sustainable and environmentally sound solutions to sustain the functioning of eco-systems through dissemination of demand oriented Basic-Needs-Services in the fields of decentralized sanitation and wastewater management, water- and energy supply: BORDA engaged in a cooperation with the Vietnam Institute of Water Resources Research (VIWRR under MARD) and its Hydro Power Centre in 2001. BORDA introduced the Hydraulic Ram technology and promoted the use of biogas, energy-saving stoves and solar panels in northern mountainous provinces. Following a series of promotional workshops, more than 200 Hydraulic Rams have been installed by the end of 2009 on the request of local and provincial authorities in more than 20 provinces. BORDA meanwhile also supports the dissemination of HPC's turbine pumps and its power generating pico- and micro-turbines. In 2004 BORDA introduced its technology of Decentralized Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS). Until now different kind of projects are finished (e.g. for hospitals in Kim Bang and Than Hoa, bear rescue centre in Tam Dao, community based sanitation for Kieu Ky, slaughterhouse in Halong and prison in Ninh Binh province) or under construction and will be monitored and checked by Borda Vietnam.