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Vietnam
Inclusion of Vietnamese with Disabilities
Implementing Partner: Viet Nam Assistance to the Handicapped
Funding Period: September 2005 – December 2011
Amount: $3,108,963
Purpose: For the period 2009 to 2011, VNAH's program will comprise three components:
- Developing laws and policies that protect the rights of people with
disabilities
- Coordinating existing laws and policies for people with disabilties,
by providing assistance to a network of disabled
persons organizations
- Piloting a holistic approach to the delivery of services for people
with disabilities, which focuses on vocational training
and employment
Viet-Nam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH) has been a Leahy War Victims Fund partner since 1993,
when USAID resources made it possible for the then-fledgling NGO, a Vietnam-specific entity, to
become operational. VNAH has supported the Government of Vietnam in its efforts to create and
pass its disabilities and accessibility laws, and is assisting in the implementation of associated
building design codes and construction standards. In the transportation arena, VNAH has assisted the
development of an accessible design standard for public transportation (buses/train) and of a set of
regulation for accessible public transportation.
VNAH’s efforts were also central in establishing the National Coordinating Council on Disability
within the government and mainstreaming disability into national programs such as the National
Poverty Reduction Program.
In 2007, VNAH teamed with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry to
establish the Blue Ribbon Employers Council. This USAID-funded initiative
links public and private partners with Vietnam's vast untapped labor force,
people with disabilities.
Read an article in USAID's FrontLines
(Special Diversity Report) on
Vietnam's Blue Ribbon Employers Council (BREC)
Read an Success Story of how a young entrepreneur is helping others in her community
Inclusion of Vietnamese with Disabilities (IVWD)
Implementing Partners: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Funding Period: October 2005 – June 2010
Funding Amount: $3,221,177
Purpose: Develop a comprehensive model of education and vocational training for children and youth with disabilities.
Objectives
- Expand the inclusive and vocational education for students with disabilties who are at the secondary level
- Continue to work with the Hanoi College of Information Technology to provide technology training for students with disabilities
In 2005, USAID’s War Victims Fund began funding Catholic Relief Services in its work to provide people with
disabilities access to educational and employment opportunities. CRS teams with subgrantee World Concern Development
Organization in developing a comprehensive model of educational and vocational training for children and youth with
disabilities in the two Vietnamese provinces of Ninh Binh and Quang Nam.
CRS is also working with the Ministry of Education and Training and the National Coordinating Council on Disability to
mainstream inclusion of people with disabilities in the educational curriculum, laws, and regulations nationwide.
An additional project component, Information Technology Training for People with Disabilities,
began in February 2007 and builds on CRS’s prior experience in the field. For this component,
CRS works with the Hanoi College of Information Technology in implementing an Information Technology Training Program
for people with disabilities. The center has become a model for specialized training, support,
and quality training opportunities across Vietnam. CRS projects that the program will be fully sustainable within
two years of its creation. In addition to providing students with the same high-quality computer training received by
non-disabled students, the program provides students with disabilities specialized adaptive training appropriate
to the nature of their disability (sight, hearing, mobility impairment); assistance with job placement; and social counseling.
Among the IT program’s initial accomplishments is the successful completion of the first three-month IT class
for the visually impaired. Thirteen students participated. The class was taught by Hoang Moc Kien, a specialist in
software for the visually impaired, who is blind. A second class of thirteen students began in August.
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