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• Programs Report
• As of 20 Mar, 2006

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Summary projects implemented during 2006

• Cao Bang Adolescents Choose Health Initiative
  (ACHI) Year 3 July 2006 June 2007
• New Start September, 2006 august, 2007
• Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
  Phase II (EnSADE II) September, 2006 August
  2007
• Hanoi Childrens Palace English Teaching Class
  Assistance September, 2006
• Ha Tay Water and Sanitation June, 2006
  September, 2006

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Summary projects implemented during 2006 (cont)

• Sight Impaired Social Inclusion Initiative in Nam
  Dinh province and Ha Tay province September,
  2006 August, 2007
• Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation project in Thua
  Thien Hue province November 2006 February 2007
  
• Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
  province October, 2006
• Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network project
  in Quang Ngai province November 15, 2006 April
  14, 2007
• Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
  Province December 2006

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ATTACHED PROJECT AREAS MAP
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Adolescents Choose Health Initiative

• Major objective(s)
• Adolescents are using knowledge, attitudes, and
  skills to improve their physical, social, and
  emotional well-being in target areas of Cao Bang
  Province.
•  Specific objective(s)
• To reduce the proportion of adolescents who are
  using tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
• To increase the knowledge, attitudes and skills
  of adolescents needed to make healthy sexual and
  reproductive health choices.

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Adolescents Choose Health Initiative (cont)

• Target locations
• Cao Bang Town
• Trung Khanh District
• Hoa An District
• Target populations
• High school students
• Middle school students
• Non regular school students

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Adolescents Choose Health Initiative (cont)

• Project duration
• Year 1 July 2004 June 2005
• Year 2 July 2005 June 2006
• Year 3 July 2006 June 2007
• Donor(s)
• AusAID through ADRA Australia
• Budget
• Year 1 A142,562
• Year 2 A228,439
• Year 3 A223,357

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ACHI Year 3 High School Based Major Activities
and Achievements

• Peer educators are providing one-on-one and group
  discussions 7 times per month on average in 8
  high schools
• extracurricular activities occurred monthly from
  November through April in Year 2
• 107 students in one pilot high school
  successfully participated in a behaviour change
  project during ACHI year 2

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ACHI Year 3 Community Based Major Activities
and Achievements

• 9 one-on-one and group discussions were held by
  each summer intern in July and August 2005 4
  one-on-one and group discussions were held by
  each summer intern in June 2006
• One extracurricular activity each month (July and
  August) was held in 28 communes in summer 2005
  and in 37 communes in June 2006.

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ACHI Year 3 Middle School Based Major
Activities and Achievements (cont)

• 85 peer educators held group activities,
  discussions monthly.
• Class and school activities began in December in
  3 middle schools and were held through April.
• Maturation classes took place in three middle
  schools during the month of January 2006.

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ACHI Year 3 Community Based Major Activities
and Achievements (cont)

• 89.4 of mothers reported having talked to their
  children about ASRH (88.7 in the last 5 months)
  
• 95 reported talking to their children about
  substance abuse
• 78 had talked to their children regarding
  unhealthy internet use

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ACHI Year 3 Confidential Hotline and Internet
Counselling Activities and Achievements

• Hotline receives 99.5 calls per month
• Web site receives 4,223 hits per month
• Internet receives 176 inquiries per month
• 71 (baseline year 2 42) of students in 11
  schools (grades 8-12) reported familiarity with
  CHIC during Year 2

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New Start

• Overall objective(s)
• to develop appropriate interventions by carrying
  out in-depth research and information gathering
  on harm reduction and substance abuse
• Project outcome(s)
• Appropriate interventions identified
• Comprehensive substance abuse resource base
  available

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New Start

• Target location(s)
• Cao Bang Town
• Target population(s)
• High school students
• Middle school students
• IDUs

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New Start

• Project duration
• September 19, 2006 August 18, 2007
• Donor(s)
• ADRA Australia
• ADRA International
• Budget
• 32,500 USD

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New Start

• Expected results
• Detailed feasibility and design study for
  vocational training/placement component
• Detailed feasibility and design study for local
  government capacity building
• Develop New Start pilot proposals for
  submission to ADRA Australia

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New Start

• Expected results (cont)
• Representative statistical data (prevalence of
  drug use in Cao Bang, etc.)
• In-depth working knowledge/awareness of the
  drug/substance use population (drug culture,
  ethnicity, age, education, socio-economic,
  gender, geography, community perception,)
• Linkages with stakeholders established
• Compilation of community resources

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New Start

• Major activities and up-to-date achievements
• Detailed feasibility and design study of
  identified risk treatment options for IDUs,
  IDU-affected target groups and plan the best
  treatment options
• Detailed feasibility and design study for
  programmes in alcohol use/abuse and its related
  diseases and plan the best treatment options
• Detailed feasibility and design study for tobacco
  control programming and plan the best treatment
  options.

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Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
Phase II

• Project goal(s)
• To address improvement of the safe motherhood
  management system in Trung Khanh district through
  training of health providers to make informed
  service delivery decisions based on information
  collected through regular ME and establishment
  of pilot community based monitoring systems.

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Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
Phase II

• Target location(s)
• Trung Khanh district, Cao Bang province, northern
  Vietnam
• Target populations
• District health officials
• Commune health workers
• Village health workers
• Traditional Birth Attendants
• Pregnant women

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Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
Phase II

• Project duration
• September 19, 2006 August 20, 2007
• Donor(s)
• ADRA New Zealand
• NZ Embassy
• ADRA Switzerland
• HELP International
• ADRA International
• Budget
• 64,047.04 USD

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Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
Phase II

• Expected results
• A total of 256 health staff trained in ME and
  planning techniques
• 75 of commune health centers have developed and
  are well implementing plans for monitoring VHW
  and TBA
• 70 of pregnancies are being formally managed by
  a CHW, VWH and/or TBA
• 75 of women receiving ANC have pregnancy
  management cards

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Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
Phase II

• Expected results (cont)
• Village Health Committees established in 3 remote
  communities
• Village Health Committee members trained in
  Participatory Learning and Action tools and ME
  techniques
• Village Health Committees track and keep record
  of pregnancies and deliveries, maternal mortality
  incidence and infant mortality incidence in pilot
  areas
• Village Health Committees conduct maternal and
  perinatal death audits

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Enhancing Safe Delivery for Ethnic Minority Women
Phase II

• Major activities and achievements up-to-date
• A total of 117 health staff have been trained in
  ME and planning techniques
• 3 Village Health Committees have been established
  in 3 communes of Trung Khanh district
• Ongoing project monitoring and evaluations

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Sight Impaired Social Inclusion Initiative in Ha
Tay and Nam Dinh province

• Project goal(s)
• To improve sight impaired people by integrating
  them into regular education and increased
  livelihood opportunities
• Expected result(s)
• Integration of select sight-impaired kids into
  the broader national educational system.
• Improvement of livelihoods for sight impaired
  adults in Nam Dinh and Ha Tay provinces by
  providing them with vocational training

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Sight Impaired Social Inclusion Initiative in Ha
Tay and Nam Dinh provinces

• Target location(s)
• Nam Dinh province, Northern Vietnam
• Ha Tay province, Northern Vietnam
• Target populations
• Blind kids of 6 14 ages
• Blind adults above 15 ages

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Sight Impaired Social Inclusion Initiative in Ha
Tay and Nam Dinh provinces

• Project duration
• September 5, 2006 September 4, 2007
• Donor(s)
• ADRA International
• Budget
• 25,395.44 USD

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Sight Impaired Social Inclusion Initiative in Ha
Tay and Nam Dinh provinces

• Major activities and up-to-date achievements
• 15 blind adults in Nam Dinh province have been
  trained on Massage.
• 12 blind kids in Ha Tay province have been
  trained on the Braille one half day and studied
  in a regular school the other half day.
• Ongoing monitoring and evaluations of the project.

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Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
province

• Between the night of September 30 and October 1,
  2006, Typhoon Xangsane was hitting land at Da
  Nang City.
• Four central coastal provinces which were most
  affected are Da Nang City, Quang Nam province,
  Thua Thien Hue province and Quang Ngai province

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Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
province

• As of October 6, 2006 in central coast
• Total deaths and missing 71 Deaths 69 and
  missing 2
• Total injured 525
• Collapsed houses 19,736
• Unroofed and damaged houses 273,744
• Sunk and damaged fishing boats 878
• Damaged farming land 78,564ha
• Total estimated loss 10,375 billion VND
  648,437,500USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
province

• As of October 6, 2006 in Quang Ngai
• Total injured 5
• Collapsed houses 15
• Unroofed and damaged houses 882
• Sunk and damaged fishing boats 15
• Damaged farming land 940.7ha
• Total estimated loss VND 32,393 billion
  2,024,563USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
province (cont)

• Major activities and up-to-date achievements
• Rice distribution
• 13,020 tons of rice have been distributed to
  approximately 651 beneficiary households 3,906
  beneficiaries.
• Roofing materials/supplies
• 116 households 696 people have benefited from
  the roofing materials/supplies

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Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
province (cont)

• Target location(s)
• Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai province, Central
  Vietnam
• Target populations
• Individuals with collapsed houses
• Individuals with unroofed houses
• individuals with damaged agricultural crops

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Typhoon Xangsane Initial Response in Quang Ngai
province (cont)

• Project duration
• October 10 11, 2006
• Donor(s)
• ADRA International
• ARO
• SAUM
• Budget
• 10,143.02USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai

• Between the night of September 30 and October 1,
  2006, Typhoon Xangsane was hitting land at Da
  Nang City.
• Four central coastal provinces which were most
  affected are Da Nang City, Quang Nam province,
  Thua Thien Hue province and Quang Ngai province

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai

• As of October 6, 2006 in central coast
• Total deaths and missing 71 Deaths 69 and
  missing 2
• Total injured 525
• Collapsed houses 19,736
• Unroofed and damaged houses 273,744
• Sunk and damaged fishing boats 878
• Damaged farming land 78,564ha
• Total estimated loss 10,375 billion VND
  648,437,500USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai

• As of October 6, 2006 in Quang Ngai
• Total injured 5
• Collapsed houses 15
• Unroofed and damaged houses 882
• Sunk and damaged fishing boats 15
• Damaged farming land 940.7ha
• Total estimated loss VND 32,393 billion
  2,024,563USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai

• Expected results
• Housing support
• 107 households 535 people will benefit from the
  roofing materials/supplies
• Seeds/seedlings supply
• 551 households 2,755 will benefit from
  seeds/seedlings supply
• Disaster mitigation training
• 60 select individuals will be trained on basic
  skills for emergency preparedness, response and
  recovery

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai (cont)

• Target location(s)
• Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai province, Central
  Vietnam
• Target populations
• Individuals with unroofed/damaged houses
• individuals with damaged agricultural crops

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai (cont)

• Project duration
• November 15 2006 April 14, 2007
• Donor(s)
• ADRA Australia
• ADRA Sweden
• ADRA New Zealand
• ADRA Canada
• ADRA Norway
• ADRA Switzerland
• ADRA UK
• Budget
• 50,000USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Network Project
in Quang Ngai (cont)

• Major activities and up-to-date achievements
• Project part time staff seconded
• Project coordinating committee has been
  established and provided coordination support
• Selection of beneficiaries
• Ongoing monitoring and evaluations

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• Between the night of September 30 and October 1,
  2006, Typhoon Xangsane was hitting land at Da
  Nang City.
• Four central coastal provinces which were most
  affected are Da Nang City, Quang Nam province,
  Thua Thien Hue province and Quang Ngai province

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• As of October 6, 2006 in central coast
• Total deaths and missing 71 Deaths 69 and
  missing 2
• Total injured 525
• Collapsed houses 19,736
• Unroofed and damaged houses 273,744
• Sunk and damaged fishing boats 878
• Damaged farming land 78,564ha
• Total estimated loss 10,375 billion VND
  648,437,500USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• As of October 6, 2006 in Thua Thien Hue
• Total deaths 4
• Total injured 101
• Drifted and broken houses 1,129
• Flooded and damaged houses 41,109
• Damaged farming land 2.907 ha
• Sunk fishing boats 250
• Total estimated loss VND 2,910,000 billion
  181,875,000 USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• Expected results
• Education
• One 3 class room primary school will be built in
  Phong Son commune of Phong Dien district
• One 3 class room primary school will be built in
  Dien Huong commune of Phong Dien district
• One 1 class room primary school will be built in
  Phong My commune of Phong Dien district
• Housing support
• 20 households will be provided with VND 8 million
  to rebuild their houses

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• Expected results (cont)
• Irrigation system
• One 1 km long dike will be upgraded
• One 3 km long irrigation system will be upgraded
• Water supply
• One 95 m long Gravity Fed Water System will be
  upgraded

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• Target location(s)
• Phong Dien district, Thua Thien Hue province,
  Central Vietnam
• Target populations
• Primary school children and teachers
• Individuals with damaged houses
• All farmers in the project area

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• Project duration
• November 22, 2006 February 28, 2007
• Donor(s)
• Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs through ADRA CZ
• Budget
• 110,000USD

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Typhoon Xangsane Rehabilitation Project in Thua
Thien Hue Province

• Major activities and up-to-date achievements
• Selection of locations for construction works
• Selection of beneficiaries for housing support
• Construction works design
• Procedures for bids
• Legal paperwork
• Project coordination and management

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Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
Province

• Between the night of December 4 and morning of
  December 5, 2006, Typhoon Durian made landfall in
  a number of provinces in the southern coast of
  Vietnam
• Later on it hit several other provinces in the
  Mekong delta
• Ba Ria Vung Tau, Ben Tre and Tien Giang were
  reported the worst affected.

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Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
Province

• As of December 7, 2006, it was reported
• Total deaths 67
• People missing 31
• Total injured 1,077
• Collapsed houses 34,737
• Unroofed and damaged houses 177,761
• Sunk and damaged fishing boats 808
• Total estimated loss several hundred million USD

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Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
Province

• As of December 6, 2006 in Ben Tre
• Total deaths 15
• Total injured 470
• Collapsed houses 19,307
• Unroofed and damaged houses 86,598
• Hundreds of hectare of fish/shrimp farms and
  cultivated land were destroyed
• Total estimated loss 12,500,000 USD

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Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
Province

• Major activities and up-to-date achievements
• 2,500 individuals benefited from receiving 10
  tons of rice.
• 1,600 benefited from receiving housing material
  support

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Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
Province

• Target location(s)
• Binh Dai district, Ben Tre province, South
  Vietnam
• Target population(s)
• Individuals with collapsed houses
• Individuals with unroofed houses
• individuals with damaged agricultural crops

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Typhoon Durian Initial Response in Ben Tre
Province

• Project duration
• December 13 14, 2006
• Donor(s)
• ADRA International
• ARO
• SAUM
• Budget
• 9,933.2USD

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Challenges/Constraints, Opportunities and Lessons
Learned

• Challenges/Constraints
• Limited capacity
• Limited internal resources / Logical support
• Political constraints and geographic coverage
• Bureaucratic processes in government
• Opportunities
• Increased awareness/support for community
  development/emergency management among
  individuals, organizations, businesses

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Challenges/Constraints, Opportunities and Lessons
Learned

• Opportunities (cont)
• Recognized by government the contribution of
  Civil Society Ogranizations to the national
  economic development and growth
• Well organized governmental structures
  established at all levels
• INGOs network established and well functioning
  and supporting
• Church is granted permit of operations

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Challenges/Constraints, Opportunities and Lessons
Learned

• Lessons learned
• Stable qualified staff and multiyear programs
  help enhance the security of ADRA Vietnam
  programs development and growth
• As long as all parties involved are fully aware
  of cooperation policies/principles, it helps
  improve the cooperation process
• Once individuals/organizations/businesses have
  increased awareness of the situation, the
  opportunity for support is higher

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Challenges/Constraints, Opportunities and Lessons
Learned

• Lessons learned (cont)
• Demonstrated successes of the current and past
  projects help sell out ADRA Vietnam products
• Clearly stated strategic directions and
  periodically reviewed exercises ensure that ADRA
  Vietnam is doing the right thing and the thing
  right
• Good relationships with government and its
  involvement in community development are crucial
  to make project cycle management go smoothly
• Good relationships with donors help build ADRA
  Vietnams confidence for its cooperation and
  development.

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Strategic directions for Programs development

• Sectoral focus. Health is the main sector,
  specifically HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and
  reproductive health. Disaster response, Economic
  development, Wat/San and are the other areas of
  interest
• Geographic focus. Cao Bang is an immediate
  priority. Quang Ngai is secondary. Expansion into
  other provinces (Ha Tay, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang)
  when strategically expedient. ADRA Vietnam is
  already looking at expanding programs into
  southern Vietnam.

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Strategic directions for Programs development
(cont)

• Multi-year programs. At least two projects with a
  lifetime of at least two years are funded every
  year
• Local presence. ADRA Vietnam establishes ongoing
  programs, full-time project staff and project
  resources in at least two provinces at a time.

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Projects planning

• ACHI II in Cao Bang
• Concept note has been submitted to ADRA Australia
• Project goal to improve confidence in metal,
  psychosocial well being of adolescents in Cao
  Bang district
• Donor AusAID through ADRA Australia
• Expected project duration 3 yrs (2007 - 2009)
• Project budget???
• VAW and HIV/AIDS in Cao Bang
• Project goal To reduce violence against women
  and girls (VAW) and their HIV/AIDS-related
  vulnerabilities and risks in Cao Bang (CB)
  Province
• Donor(s) UNIFEM
• Total requested funds USD407,501
• Expected project duration 3 years (2007 - 2009)

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Projects planning (cont)

• Safe Motherhood and New born in Cao Bang
• Proposal has been under development needs
  assessment and logframe have been done.
• Donor(s) JICA through ADRA Japan
• Tot requested funds
• Expected project duration
• National Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan
  
• Goal To provide a clear plan of action for ADRA
  Vietnam
• Donor(s) ADRA I
• Total requested funds 10,000USD for each
  disaster response
• Expected project duration Permanent

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Projects planning

• Tobacco control
• Project goal to reduce tobacco use
• Deadline to submit a concept note June 13, 2007
• Deadline to submit a proposal July 25, 2007
• Total budget 10,000 - 500,000USD
• Donor Michael R. Bloomberg
• Expected project duration one to two years time
• HIV/AID
• Project goal to contribute to the development
  and implementation of effective and evidence
  based responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemics at
  country and regional levels.
• Deadline to submit a proposal May 31, 2007
• Donor ADB
• Project budget up to 50,000USD
• Expected project duration up to two years time.

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