SNV is working to improve the delivery and functionality of water services and sanitation systems in rural and remote communities, as well as promoting community awareness on the importance of effective hygiene.

SNV is working to promote various renewable energy sources in the region, including domestic biogas and improved watermills, as well as providing support for enterprises seeking carbon financing for their clean energy initiatives.

SNV helps to alleviate rural poverty as well as to mitigate the effects of deforestation through promoting inclusive business in agriculture, developing smallholder cash crop value chains, including marginalised communities in timber and non-timber forest product value chains, and promoting initiatives in climate change mitigation funding.

By end of 2011, SNV and IRC reviewed progress of the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) programme in Asia.
The project has facilitated to develop fair trading linkages between rice farming households and rice millers.
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Read more...SNV's presence in Asia started in 1980 in Nepal and has since expanded to Bhutan, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, with emerging programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia. Our advisors are working hand-in-hand with local actors in some of the remotest and poorest corners of Asia to strengthen their capacity to effectively realise poverty reduction and good governance.
To ensure tangible impact, we offer services in:
In Asia, SNV works in: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam.
Allert van den Ham, Chief Executive Officer & Regional Director - Asia
"In Asia, more than 600 million people are living on less than a dollar a day. Therefore, we have a strong commitment in ensuring that SNV's capacity development support delivers impact in poverty reduction for the benefit of disadvantaged women and men around Asia."
SNV Regional Office - Asia
Postal Address: PO Box 189
Hanoi, Vietnam
Visiting Address:
6th Floor, Building B, La Thanh Hotel
218 Doi Can street, Ba Dinh district
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: +84 48463791
Fax: +84 48463794