Cooperation and exchange with the German Development and Cooperation Organization (GIZ)

During the meeting, Associate Professor Dr. Dao Thanh Truong listened to Ms. Tran Thi Huong Giang share information about the content and progress of the Social Objectives Project in Sustainable Green Growth. The project, launched in 2016 in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, aims to strengthen the integration of social factors into the process of developing green growth policies and strategies. The project has implemented activities including technical support, knowledge transfer, and experience sharing on assessing the impact of social policies, while also helping to enhance the capacity of Vietnamese government officials and staff.

For higher education institutions like the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Project has contributed to disseminating the content of social impact assessment within the university through support for training and capacity building for lecturers; and in collaboration with experts to develop learning materials on social impact assessment. In the future, the Project hopes to supplement and integrate this field into the digital learning resources as well as the training programs of relevant units within the university, such as the Social Work Department of the Faculty of Sociology. Along with that, it will organize workshops and seminars to introduce and disseminate knowledge and skills in social impact assessment to staff, lecturers, and students of the university.

On behalf of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Thanh Truong highly appreciated the results of the cooperation between GIZ and the University in the activities of the Social Goals in Sustainable Green Growth Project. The Vice Rector also agreed with the new cooperation proposals and requested the focal units within the University to coordinate effectively with GIZ to quickly realize the ideas. In the coming time, the University will continue to disseminate information about the Project to more units to expand the scale of cooperation.

Established in 2011, the German Development and Cooperation Organization (BMZ) is under the authorization of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany. It has extensive experience in developing and implementing social impact and poverty assessments in many countries around the world, and a long tradition of cooperation in Vietnam in the fields of social security and green growth.