The Hanoi office makes grants in Vietnam and Thailand.
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Ford Foundation
Pacific Place, 14th Floor
83B Ly Thuong Kiet Street
Hoan Kiem District
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel. (+84) 4-946-1428 or (+84) 4-946-1418
Fax (+84) 4-946-1417
ford-hanoi@fordfound.org
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Hanoi Office Opened in 1996
The Ford Foundation began making grants in Vietnam in the early 1990s and was issued a license to establish an office in Hanoi in October 1996. During our first decade, we approved 625 grants totaling $84.5 million to organizations and individuals in Vietnam and to foreign institutions working for the benefit of Vietnam. In 2007, grant making in Vietnam exceeded $10 million.
Testing Promising Solutions
We believe that solutions to complex issues are best found by those living and working closest to them. For this reason, each of our programs is developed after consulting with a range of institutions and individuals across Vietnam. Current programs support Vietnamese who are creating new knowledge, enlarging institutional capacities and testing the most promising solutions to pressing social and economic needs.
Given the global reach of the Ford Foundation, we can also link Vietnamese grantees with the best contemporary thinkers and innovators in the world. The foundation also encourages equality of opportunity. To attain this goal, we work closely with grantees to ensure participation by men and women from diverse communities and from all levels of society.
Addressing Legacy of Agent Orange
We have also supported humanitarian efforts that address the environmental and health legacy of Agent Orange, a chemical herbicide used by American troops during the Vietnam War. In 2000 we began funding work that focuses on the impact of dioxin and, in 2006, established the Ford Foundation Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin, now led from New York.
Work in Thailand
In Thailand, our grants focus primarily on health and social sciences, support for women's rights and strengthening the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Major support to Mahidol University in Bangkok sustains its master's degree program in the health and social sciences for students from East and Southeast Asia, including Vietnam. Other grants support Thai work in HIV/AIDS prevention and care, reproductive health and rights, and gender-based violence. Our staff anticipates that continued grant making in Thailand will provide a wealth of experience and opportunities for cooperation between Vietnamese and Thai social and agricultural scientists, gender specialists and health care providers.