Friday the 6th of September I joined the bi-annual meeting for INGO's in South Vietnam. Present were the former Director General of PACCOM, now Vice President of VUFO and Vice Chairman of COMINGO Mr. Don Tuan Phong and the newly appointed Director General Mr. Phan Anh Son. Mr. Son replaced Mr. Phong in April this year.
We were informed about the results in general of the the INGO activities in Vietnam, and that is is continuously increasing. Now with almost 500 INGOs having projects in Vietnam, and 900 registered. Most support is coming from North America (about 45%), then Europe (about 36%) and the rest from Asian countries.
Much of the meeting was also about the new registration procedure. Now we need to have a certificate instead of a permit. It is still PACCOM who is taking care of the procedure, but it will be Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) who will issue the certificate.
Many INGO's is having problems with the procedure, since all our documents is going to be certified by the domestic authorities of each country. DVA should have all their papers approved by the Danish diplomatic corps in Vietnam before sending in.
PACCOM is about to make a toolkit that should make the new procedure easier to follow. A draft will be send out soon to the INGO community for comments. When the toolkit is ready for launching is not known yet.
I informed Mr. Dzung, head of the European desk, that DVA was in the process of finalizing the application for a new certificate. I used the opportunity to inform Mr. Phong and Mr. Son about the resent activities in DVA, and that we now have a seat in at the CISU board also. Even though Mr. Son was new at PACCOM, he was very familiar with CISU and its role in the Danish development landscape.
Daniel is sick
The meeting ended at 12 o'clock and I rushed home, because Daniel has become more ill the last days. He coughs, has headache and has a running nose. Apparantly no fever. We went to the nearby SOS clinic for diagnose and treatment. It was only a cold he has caught, so he was prescribed some Ameflue (like Panodil just including some medicine against coughing and running nose). This kind of illness is very common in the rainy season in Vietnam, so actually already the staff at NGO Fontana that we met with the day before "prescribed" the same medicine as the doctor. So I could have saved USD 110,00. Already this morning he is better.
We were informed about the results in general of the the INGO activities in Vietnam, and that is is continuously increasing. Now with almost 500 INGOs having projects in Vietnam, and 900 registered. Most support is coming from North America (about 45%), then Europe (about 36%) and the rest from Asian countries.
Much of the meeting was also about the new registration procedure. Now we need to have a certificate instead of a permit. It is still PACCOM who is taking care of the procedure, but it will be Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) who will issue the certificate.
Many INGO's is having problems with the procedure, since all our documents is going to be certified by the domestic authorities of each country. DVA should have all their papers approved by the Danish diplomatic corps in Vietnam before sending in.
PACCOM is about to make a toolkit that should make the new procedure easier to follow. A draft will be send out soon to the INGO community for comments. When the toolkit is ready for launching is not known yet.
I informed Mr. Dzung, head of the European desk, that DVA was in the process of finalizing the application for a new certificate. I used the opportunity to inform Mr. Phong and Mr. Son about the resent activities in DVA, and that we now have a seat in at the CISU board also. Even though Mr. Son was new at PACCOM, he was very familiar with CISU and its role in the Danish development landscape.
Daniel is sick
The meeting ended at 12 o'clock and I rushed home, because Daniel has become more ill the last days. He coughs, has headache and has a running nose. Apparantly no fever. We went to the nearby SOS clinic for diagnose and treatment. It was only a cold he has caught, so he was prescribed some Ameflue (like Panodil just including some medicine against coughing and running nose). This kind of illness is very common in the rainy season in Vietnam, so actually already the staff at NGO Fontana that we met with the day before "prescribed" the same medicine as the doctor. So I could have saved USD 110,00. Already this morning he is better.
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