UNICEF Vietnam provides collaboration opportunities for Finnish companies

UNICEF Vietnam is seeking collaboration with Finnish companies in following areas: education and innovation (SDG 4), evidence-based guideline and technology, life skill and green skill (SDG 8), health and climate change interventions (SDG 13), and digital and AI competency, with gender as a cross-cutting area.

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

UNICEF Vietnam is one of more than 190 offices of the United Nations Children’s Fund globally and part of the United Nations system in Viet Nam working in close collaboration with all UN agencies in the country. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF has a universal mandate to promote and protect the rights of all children, everywhere – especially those hardest to serve and most at risk.

Since UNICEF’s first days in Vietnam, the country programme has progressed from emergency response and reconstruction to meeting basic needs in health and education, and is now concentrating on improving social services, while supporting sound policy and advocating an effective legal framework to ensure each child of the country’s 26 million girls and boys can meet his or her full potential.