Remote sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging economies (RIICE) - Phase 3
01.08.2018
- 31.08.2022
Extreme weather events increasingly affect small-scale producers in Asia. Satellites and other information technologies present tremendous potential for improved country-wide monitoring of crop growth and insurance solutions for extreme weather events. With RIICE, SDC supports the integration of expertise from Swiss private actors and international public research centres toward modernizing public agricultural services and crop insurance programmes, offering performant solutions to Governments and producers to cope with production shortfalls.
Pro-poor Policy Monitoring and Analysis in Vietnam
01.01.2014
- 30.09.2016
Vietnam Community Management Project

01.01.2013
- 30.11.2016
“People know, people discuss, people implement and people supervise” is a Vietnamese government slogan to promote grassroots democracy. The government of Vietnam has recognized the rights and roles of citizens in local planning and decision-making. But do people have a say in decisions that affect them? Not yet. This project aims to contribute to the implementation of this slogan by facilitating a process through which communities “self-define” their problems, “self-set” their priorities, “self-develop” and “self-implement” their solutions, co-financed by SDC and communities.
Vietnam: Support to the governance reforms under the “One UN Plan”
01.08.2012
- 31.12.2014
One UN reform agenda, namely: One Plan, One Budget, One Leader, One Set of Management Practices, Green One UN House, One Voice. UN has convening role in the aid architecture and plays a vital role in supporting the governance reform in Vietnam
Market Access for the Rural Poor – through Value Chain Promotion

01.05.2012
- 30.06.2016
12 million poor farming households, many from ethnic minorities, live in rural Vietnam. Their livelihood depends on agriculture, but their access to the market is restricted for reasons ranging from limited information to lack of services. Switzerland supports projects and organisations that strengthen linkages and cooperation along agricultural value chains in order to improve access of 10’000 rural households to the market and to create processing jobs. Income and employment so generated is expected to help the rural poor out of poverty.
Public Service Provision Improvement Programmein Agriculture and Rural Development (PS-ARD)

01.05.2011
- 31.12.2015
Despite Vietnam’s high economic growth rate in the last decades with impressive achievements in poverty reduction, the poverty rate gap between urban and rural areas is still high. More than 95% of poor people live in rural areas. In Hoa Binh and Cao Bang, where ethnic minority accounts for more than 60% and 90% respectively, the poverty rates are 16% and 25% in 2009 respectively.
Public Service Provision Improvement Programmein Agriculture and Rural Development (PS-ARD)

01.05.2011
- 31.12.2015
Despite Vietnam’s high economic growth rates in the last decades with impressive achievements in poverty reduction, the poverty rate gap between urban and rural areas is still high. More than 95% of poor people live in rural areas. In Cao Bang province, where ethnic minorities account for more than 90% of the population, the poverty rates were 25% in 2009.
Public Service Provision Improvement Programme in Agriculture and Rural Development - PSARD - Coordination
01.05.2011
- 31.12.2015
Poverty Alleviation through Livestock Development in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam (PALD) Project

01.02.2011
- 31.10.2015
Despite Vietnam’s high economic growth rate in the last decades with impressive achievements in poverty reduction, the poverty rate gap between urban and rural areas is still high.
Monitoring and Evaluation in Support of Management in the Agricultural and Rural Development Sector (MESMARD)

01.03.2010
- 31.12.2015
Switzerland supports the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in establishing a system that can effectively monitor and evaluate the outcomes of economic growth and the impact of MA RD’s poverty reduction policies and programmes. This will help MARD to make better use of its limited resources to achieve results and contribute to improving the livelihoods of the 75% of the population living in rural areas whose livelihoods depend on agriculture.
Support to the Forestry Partnership
01.06.2008
- 31.12.2013
Swiss Tourism for Sustainable Development Project
01.04.2023
- 31.03.2027
The Swiss Tourism for Sustainable Development Project (ST4SD) in Vietnam aims at making Vietnam’s tourism sector more sustainable and inclusive. It supports the preparation of relevant policies and strengthens public-private dialogues at both national and subnational levels in close collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.