Vietnam Biogas Programme winning the Ashden Award in 2010

SNV Vietnam 15th Anniversary in 2010

Inclusive Business project in Central Vietnam

SNV's local capacity builder (LCB) working with local farmers on agricultural extension

Local people involved in SNV REDD+ activity in Lam Dong province

Woman mason buiding toilets in Dien Bien province

Market-based Solutions

SNV is committed to reducing poverty by catalysing environmentally sustainable solutions for the poor. We develop highly specific products and services that are tailored to each of the sectors in which we work. Together with clients and partners, SNV invests time, research and training to fine-tune these methodologies, which often prove to shift the boundaries set by more traditional approaches.

Local Engagement

"SNV was among the many INGOs that we contacted. It was the only one that not just understood our proposition to connect with small holder farmers, but was willing and able to engage on the basis of a solid appreciation of our business-based approach to achieve sustainable development results." - Jamey Hadden, Green Energy Biomass JSC, Vietnam.

Get Involved with SNV

We actively seek partners and potential donors to collaborate with to maximise our impact and share our knowledge. We are looking to forge partnerships at national, regional and global levels. We regard a partnership as a strategic relationship between SNV and other actors committed to working collaboratively through a balanced pooling of resources and sharing risks and responsibilities.

Latest news

SSH4A benefiting thousands of rural people in Asia

26 April 2012

By end of 2011, SNV and IRC reviewed progress of the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) programme in Asia. .

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Supporting pangasius farmers to achieve sustainability

23 April 2012

The world’s appetite for Vietnamese pangasius fish is booming. In the last 20 years Vietnamese production and export of pangasius has grown over 50 fold.

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HITT Vietnam inks agreement with EU, ESRT

18 April 2012

HITT Vietnam has recently signed a letter of agreement with the European Union and Vietnam Government funded Environmentally & Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Programme.

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International Workshop: islands of success towards Seas of Change

13 April 2012

The Seas of Change Initiative is a learning and research initiative about how to scale inclusive agri-food markets. As partner of this initiative, SNV co-organized an international workshop that brought together a group of leading business and development practitioners.

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Vietnam

Vietnam is one of the fastest developing countries in the world, experiencing continuous GDP growth of 6-8% per year from 2000-2011. With its rapid economic expansion and a population of 87 million, Vietnam is becoming an increasingly important market, as well as gaining importance as a producer in its own right, especially in the garment, rice, pepper and tea industries. Lured by Vietnam’s stunning scenery, vibrant culture and rich heritage, tourists are currently flooding to the country in unprecedented numbers, while foreign investors flock to mark their stake in the country’s burgeoning economy.

Over the last fifteen years, Vietnam has made remarkable achievements in reducing poverty. Current official poverty levels stand at 9.5% and Vietnam is poised to become a middle income country within the next two years and to achieve its Millennium Development Goals by 2012. However, pockets of extreme poverty still remain, mostly in ethnic communities in the mountainous northwest and north central regions, while increasing urbanisation has also created new pockets of poverty in and around the cities in the Mekong and Red River deltas.

SNV has been active in Vietnam since 1995. With a team of more than 40 international and national advisors, SNV’s work in Vietnam focuses on the following programmes: