I came here almost 4 weeks ago, and some of you may ask: What are you doing? - what kind of work are you involved in, and what are your plans for your stay in Vietnam and for the future cooperation.
I want to share some of this with you here. Let me start to say: I am not alone. I have good Vietnamese colleagues and good project group members and supporters who help.
Website, promotion, sustainability and fund raising
Because the DANIDA funding is phasing these months we have focus on strengthening the fund raising activities. Before we can approach more directly new potential donors we need to set up our website, make folders and prepare the first second monthly newsletter. I promised the newsletter to interested companies already back in November 2011, but we never got the human resources for it, between our daily professional work. Now is the time, and we will finish these three elements within a week or so. This should secure the finansial sustainability for the Little Rose Warm Shelter on the present level of children and staff.
Besides that it is our aim also to fund raise for other projects if we get enough money. We will describe the projects we have in mind more detailed on our website when it is finished. But I have already mentioned two of them in my blog earlier: The SPI project and the Green Bamboo Warm Shelter.
Make the capacity building sustainable
The other major task of mine is to secure the LRWS and the core group of trainer that we have educated through the years to be able to continue the work and keep the capacity in house. The have obtained capacity of trainer of trainers (ToT) in 1. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (CSAP)and 2. Social & Emotional Learning (SEL - program for non violent behaviour). In both fields we have developed state of art training materials that are amongst the best (if not the best in Vietnam). The period we face now is a period were we need to identify partners and sponsors who can help spreading these materials to other shelters with less capacity as LRWS.
On Wednesday I go to Hanoi to have meeting with all the NGO's in the Child Rights Working Group under NGO Resource Centre. I will also have meetings with other stakeholders and potential partners and sponsors.
The other things
We will have some extra training for the ToT group in October and November and we are planing that at the moment. I am in the proces of applying for the new PACCOM certificate. This is not an easy procedure.....
Else please see this from my to do list (random order):
- making advocacy for small VN- and DKNGOs
- helping the partner applying for the JIFF fund at the Danish Embassy
- receiving one more Danish volunteer at GBWS
- finalizing donor oriented reporting frame (short but clear, - narative and financial)
- new agreements with all the partners
- applying for funding at Danish public funds
- help LRWS writing application for support from a private company (an invitation - so positive)
- finalize fund raising strategy
- conduct 1 or 2 fund raising activities before leaving
- write application for refraiming the message
- finalize design for CSR pool idea together with two or mor compannies
- finalize approach for the 3rd International NGO Conference in Hanoi in November.
- participating in local NGO activities in HCMC in order to network
- written report to to DVA and project group
etc.
I hope this gives you a better understanding of what I am doing. And as mentioned in an earlier blog, The first two weeks my to do list only got longer, - not shorter. But I think, that is normal.
Daniel - go to Hoa BInh
So as you can see, I am not bored. In fact I am a little concerned for Daniel being so much on his own, and only observing, because I have to use many hours per day on my work. However, next weekend we will go to Hoa Binh to visit his biological family. He is looking very much forward to that. And on next Monday he is starting a one week internship at Lin Center (thank you Dana and Son). If we have time we will visit Da Lat from the 4th to th 6th of October. Luckily Daniel is not the I-want-to-see-a-lot-of tourist-things type. He feels comfortable just to be, - to be amongst Vietnamese and in the Vietnamese culture and just feel it. Besides that he has got interested in my work and have a good relationship with the people at LRWS and GBWS.
The pictures shows all the LRWS staff and Mr. Long and Ms. Dung from Child Welfare Foundation having a meeting on the new reporting methode.
I want to share some of this with you here. Let me start to say: I am not alone. I have good Vietnamese colleagues and good project group members and supporters who help.
Website, promotion, sustainability and fund raising
Because the DANIDA funding is phasing these months we have focus on strengthening the fund raising activities. Before we can approach more directly new potential donors we need to set up our website, make folders and prepare the first second monthly newsletter. I promised the newsletter to interested companies already back in November 2011, but we never got the human resources for it, between our daily professional work. Now is the time, and we will finish these three elements within a week or so. This should secure the finansial sustainability for the Little Rose Warm Shelter on the present level of children and staff.
Besides that it is our aim also to fund raise for other projects if we get enough money. We will describe the projects we have in mind more detailed on our website when it is finished. But I have already mentioned two of them in my blog earlier: The SPI project and the Green Bamboo Warm Shelter.
Make the capacity building sustainable
The other major task of mine is to secure the LRWS and the core group of trainer that we have educated through the years to be able to continue the work and keep the capacity in house. The have obtained capacity of trainer of trainers (ToT) in 1. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (CSAP)and 2. Social & Emotional Learning (SEL - program for non violent behaviour). In both fields we have developed state of art training materials that are amongst the best (if not the best in Vietnam). The period we face now is a period were we need to identify partners and sponsors who can help spreading these materials to other shelters with less capacity as LRWS.
On Wednesday I go to Hanoi to have meeting with all the NGO's in the Child Rights Working Group under NGO Resource Centre. I will also have meetings with other stakeholders and potential partners and sponsors.
The other things
We will have some extra training for the ToT group in October and November and we are planing that at the moment. I am in the proces of applying for the new PACCOM certificate. This is not an easy procedure.....
Else please see this from my to do list (random order):
- making advocacy for small VN- and DKNGOs
- helping the partner applying for the JIFF fund at the Danish Embassy
- receiving one more Danish volunteer at GBWS
- finalizing donor oriented reporting frame (short but clear, - narative and financial)
- new agreements with all the partners
- applying for funding at Danish public funds
- help LRWS writing application for support from a private company (an invitation - so positive)
- finalize fund raising strategy
- conduct 1 or 2 fund raising activities before leaving
- write application for refraiming the message
- finalize design for CSR pool idea together with two or mor compannies
- finalize approach for the 3rd International NGO Conference in Hanoi in November.
- participating in local NGO activities in HCMC in order to network
- written report to to DVA and project group
etc.
I hope this gives you a better understanding of what I am doing. And as mentioned in an earlier blog, The first two weeks my to do list only got longer, - not shorter. But I think, that is normal.
Daniel - go to Hoa BInh
So as you can see, I am not bored. In fact I am a little concerned for Daniel being so much on his own, and only observing, because I have to use many hours per day on my work. However, next weekend we will go to Hoa Binh to visit his biological family. He is looking very much forward to that. And on next Monday he is starting a one week internship at Lin Center (thank you Dana and Son). If we have time we will visit Da Lat from the 4th to th 6th of October. Luckily Daniel is not the I-want-to-see-a-lot-of tourist-things type. He feels comfortable just to be, - to be amongst Vietnamese and in the Vietnamese culture and just feel it. Besides that he has got interested in my work and have a good relationship with the people at LRWS and GBWS.
The pictures shows all the LRWS staff and Mr. Long and Ms. Dung from Child Welfare Foundation having a meeting on the new reporting methode.