Vietnam

CCBO Launches New Capacity Building Tool for Local Governments

More than 22 million tons of plastic leak into our aquatic environment each year, the majority from land-based sources in communities and cities that aren’t able to adequately collect and manage local waste.  Local governments have an important role in providing on-the-ground services to control waste and prevent ocean plastic… Read More

Funding Opportunity: Asia Resilient Cities (ARC)

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for acooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Asia Resilient Cities (ARC)activity. The ARC activity is a five-year cooperative agreement with the anticipated start of performancearound July 15, 2022. ARC will work with three or more cities… Read More

USAID/Vietnam Action Against Plastic Pollution Notice of Funding Opportunity

The United States Agency for International Development in Vietnam (USAID/Vietnam) is seeking applications from qualified entities to implement the “Vietnam Action Against Plastic Pollution” activity. The overall objective of this activity is to reduce ocean plastic pollution at its source in Vietnam through strategic approaches such as convening stakeholders’ power,… Read More

USAID and Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Climate Change and Environmental Pollution

USAID’s collaboration with MONRE will focus on air quality management; integrated water resource management and water security; conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity; ocean plastic, solid waste management and recycling; and reduction of emissions responsible for climate change. Read More

Request for Information: Vietnam Action Against Plastic Pollution

The United States Government (USG) represented by the Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Hanoi, Vietnam, posts this Request for Information (RFI) to inform interested organizations of an upcoming activity, “Vietnam Action Against Plastic Pollution”. This potential five year cooperative agreement, with a total estimated amount of up to… Read More

USAID Announces New Vietnam Partnership to Address Ocean Plastic Pollution

On January 12, 2022 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) program and the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) announced a partnership to stem the tide of ocean plastic pollution through improved local solid waste management. Through the partnership,… Read More

Municipal Waste Recycling Program Key Results and Impacts

Launched in 2016, the Municipal Waste Recycling Program was USAID’s first formal response to the urgent challenge of plastic pollution in developing countries. Download the infographic to view the program’s key results and impacts. Read More

MWRP Vietnam: Schools Stem the Tide of Plastic Pollution, Spark Waste Reduction

In the coastal city of Hue, Vietnam, plastic consumption and unsound solid waste management practices were leading to an unmanageable pollution problem. Read More

MWRP Vietnam: Piloting a Zero Waste Model to Help Reduce Ocean Plastic Pollution

To support a regional initiative managed out of the Philippines, USAID’s Municipal Waste Recycling Program provided a grant to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives Philippines Inc. (GAIA) to improve SWM and recycling practices in the Cam Thanh commune (a ward of Hoi An) and in the Cham Islands. Read More

USAID Municipal Waste Recycling Program Zero Waste Roundtable

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), a USAID grantee and leader in the approach, defines “zero waste” as “significantly reducing — and eventually completely eliminating—the amount of resources that we send to disposal.” Mike Alino with GAIA says zero waste is a goal, “something we should aspire to.” This… Read More