Save the Children in Vietnam is looking to engage with Finnish private sector

Save the Children Vietnam (SCiV) cooperates with Finnpartnership to promote children’s rights through the private sector in Vietnam. Through this collaboration, Save the Children aims to leverage a wide range of innovative approaches, technologies, and practices to improve education, healthcare, child protection and livelihoods for children in need and their communities.

Currently, SCiV seeks, among others, solutions that use artificial intelligence for online learning and healthcare for ethnic minority children in remote areas, digital solutions for vocational training for people with disabilities, and water solutions for schools and communities in mountainous and saltwater invasions. In addition, SCiV is open to cooperation with Finnish companies to accelerate impact investments in the energy transition of schools and the sustainable development of mangroves.

Finnpartnership invites Finnish companies with technology solutions or expertise related to SCiV’s initiatives to contact Huong Phan (huong.phan@finnpartnership.fi) about possible cooperation with Save the Children Vietnam. Finnish companies can receive Business Partnership Support from Finnpartnership for piloting with an ODA-eligible international organisation, such as SCiV. Support can be awarded for a pilot or demonstration project related to a technology or solution implemented as part of the organisation’s activities. The amount of support is EUR 15,000–400,000, and for projects in Vietnam, Finnpartnership covers 50 or 75 per cent of the approved project costs, depending on the size of the applicant company.

Save the Children Vietnam works with several stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Labour, Disability and Social Affairs, trade unions, NGOs, universities, and businesses, to create long-lasting impacts for Vietnamese children.