Client: Department for International Development (DFID) & Abt Associates Inc. Duration: July 2020 – January 2021 Overview: MDRI is collaborating with DFID & Abt Associates to conduct a survey of 2000 Thai Binh rice farmers and evaluate AgResults’ prize competition initiative in Vietnam. AgResults is a multinational initiative that promotes agricultural innovations from the private…
Client: The World Bank Time: 6/2020 – 10/2020 Overview: Since its initial outbreak in December 2019, COVID-19 has quickly spread across the world to become a pandemic and caused a global health crisis. Measures to contain the spread of a pandemic, such as social displacement, restrictions on movement, closure of schools and businesses, etc. have…
Client: International Finance Corporation (IFC-WB) Duration: 05/2020-08/2020 Overview: MDRI is collaborating with International Finance Corporation (IFC) to conduct quantitative data collection for a quasi-experimental baseline survey to better understand the conditions of farmers participating in IFC’s Vietnam Sustainable Pepper project in terms of Household income, income sources and income from pepper; Access to training and…
Client: Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Duration: 04/2020-08/2020 Overview: MDRI is working with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Market Assessment and Analysis to identify needed employability skills and firms’ good practices so as to improve the…
Client: The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Time: 06 – 10/2019 Overview: Since 2011, with funding support from the Government of Australia, the Government of South Korea and Asian Development Bank, the Government of Vietnam has implemented the Central Mekong Delta Connectivity Project (CMDP) to enhance transport mobility in the Mekong Delta Region and provide…
Client: The World Bank Time: 08 – 12/2018 Overview: Over the period May 2007 through June 2016, the Government of Vietnam implemented an ambitious Mekong Delta Transport Infrastructure Development Project (MDTIDP) in an amount of US$396.3 million with funding support from the World Bank Group and the Government of Australia. The project was implemented across…
Name of Client: Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Country: Vietnam Location within country: Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Quang Nam, Dong Thap, Ho Chi Minh City Start date (month/year): 03/2019 Completion date (month/year): 07/2019 Description of Project: The project includes the design and implementation of surveys on household usage of financial technology in selected Asian countries to…
Client: Oxfam in Vietnam Time: 11/2018 – 02/2020 Overview: Vietnam has demonstrated that it is possible to achieve both a high growth rate and consistently reduce poverty levels. Nonetheless, a significant challenge for the future is still posed, given the current reduced growth rates and high budget deficits, which will limit public spending and the ability…
Client: Center for Development and Integration Overview: Living wages are still a relatively new concept for the public and policy makers in Vietnam. Many state agencies, enterprises believe that living wage is a salary if employees only work during normal working time. However, living wage refers to the wage which employees receive for normal working…
Client: Save the Children in Vietnam Time: 03/2019 – 09/2019 Overview: Save the Children (SC), through Vietnam Sponsorship Programme, is partipating in the building up of human capital in Vietnam. The programme aims at giving children the best chance for a lifetime of success by transforming the lives of children and ensures children have the…