USAID’s Partner Capacity Development (PCD) program is working with approximately 15 Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (VNGOs) to build their human and institutional capacity. Over the last 12 months, the program improved the capacity of these organizations through providing a series of trainings on topics such as financial management, human resources, organizational monitoring and evaluation, and fundraising. On August 16-19, a training in this series on the topic of “Project Design and Management” attracted 30 representatives from VNGOs including those representing vulnerable groups in Vietnam such as persons with disabilities, LGBTI, blind and deaf groups.

With technical assistance from USAID’s Healthy Markets Project, in July 2017, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) issued Circular 31 in which condoms are featured among the list of Class II goods regulated by the MoH. This policy reform, which will become effective on September 15, will promote condom quality assurance and regulation of condom counterfeiting.