On a sunny Saturday, concluding the hottest week the North of Vietnam has seen in a century, 50 people belonging to the different operational partners of VVOB met in the Tay Ho hotel in Hanoi. They gathered to discuss the roll out of the second phase of VVOB’s education programme which will be implemented from 2011 to 2013, following the first phase spanning the past three years. The Departments of Education and Training (DOETs), Teacher Training Institutes, Women’s Union and Youth Union from VVOB’s 5 partner provinces Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh, Nghe An, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai were joined by representatives from strategic partners such as provincial People’s Committees and the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).
During the first months of 2010, the partners provided inputs for formulating the different results and sub-results that the programme will seek to achieve during the upcoming period. The workshop in Hanoi aimed to formulate broad activities under the different sub-results together with the partners. Each provincial partner prepared inputs the week before the workshop and those were the basis for the lively discussions that took place in the Tay Ho hotel.
While the second phase follows the overall lines set out at the beginning of the 6-year programme, some fine-tuning occurred in the formulation of the results and sub-results based on the experiences gained during the first phase and especially based on the input from our partners. This also helped to concretize the activities allowing to reach the results in the most effective and efficient way.
The three intermediate results in the education programme each relate to one of the three operational partners of the programme: DOET, Teacher Training Institutes and Mass Organisations. The discussions on the broad activities proceeded according to the different components and results.
Each province had provided us with a proposal of the activities they would like to implement in the coming 3 years. Now each group of stakeholders (from each of 5 provinces) clustered the proposed activities into a number of broad activities allowing to achieve the different sub-results and subsequently the results.
The groups also explored how activities could be phased over the 3 years of the second phase of the programme. Besides they discussed how both parties – VVOB and the partner organizations – could best merge their resources in order to implement the activities in the most effective and sustainable way, and how that would evolve over time, with a view towards the end of the programme in 2013.
