SNV Asia’s strategic positioning choices have been based on criteria including: relevance to the external situation analysis, potential impact, client availability and leadership, internal competencies, synergies between the sectors, cost-effectiveness and fundability.

SNV will continue to focus in 2008 and 2009 on two Asia sub-regions: Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh in the Hindu Kush Himalayas of South Asia; and Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia in the Mekong region of South East Asia. Opportunities in Central and East Asia will be explored during this period, but not lead to new core funding investments before 2010.

Together with other development actors, we will contribute to achievement of impact targets set in MDG-based national poverty reduction strategies. Our development results are measured in two areas:

• Reducing extreme poverty by increasing production, employment and equitable income opportunities (PIE impact area); 
• Improving the access, coverage and quality of basic services in education, health, water & sanitation and renewable energy (BASE impact area).

To maximise SNV’s impact and share knowledge we want to forge more high-leverage partnerships. SNV therefore strives for a blend of partnerships at various levels – country, region, corporate – to the benefit of our work.    

Positioning Choices in Asia:

• Access to Basic Services (BASE)
  - Renewable energy/Biogas (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam)
  - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (Bhutan, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam)



• Production Income and Employment (PIE)
  - Smallholder Cash Crops: tea, spices, fruit and vegetables. (Bhutan, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam)
  - Pro-poor sustainable tourism (Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam)
  - Forest Products: bamboo, rattan, medicinal/aromatic plants (Bhutan, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam)