Center for Adaptive Capacity Building (CAB)

About us

CAB was established by Union of Science and Technology Associations of Da Nang city with Decision No. 273/QD-LHH dated 17/10/2017 and license issued by Science and Technology Department of Da Nang city. CAB helps vulnerable groups to include into every aspect of social life by empowering them based on available resources through consulting and implementing sustainable development projects. The poor people with disabilities and ethnic minorities, especially women and children and community organizations are beneficiaries of CAB.

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CAB was established based on extensive experience from Malteser International

CAB started operating in January 2019 after MI officially closed its project office and handed over all of the materials and achievements to CAB at the end of December 2018.

CAB office based in Da Nang city has firmly connected with the partners in various project areas and the NGOs, networking groups which MI used to work with before.

Though just being operated, CAB developed several of new collaboration with organizations such as American University Da Nang, Green Youth Collective (GYC) – An Nhien Farm and Nha Chong Lu Fund (a fund for evacuation shelter) besides Malteser International, Malteser, World Child Future Foundation as its slogan “Coordinating capacities for a dignified life”.

2004

Malteser International with sustainable development programs in Vietnam

Since 2004, in order to provide legal security for the deployment, the Maltesers founded the Malteser Foreign Aid Service as a registered voluntary association – beginning a tradition of overseas aid missions that would culminate in the establishment of Malteser International as the Order of Malta’s worldwide humanitarian aid organization. Malteser International presents in over 20 countries in Asia, Africa and America.In Vietnam, from 2005, Malteser International implemented many kinds of sustainable projects and complied with international humanitarian regulations and standards. The following projects got funds from German government and World Child Future Foundation, ECHO, UPS…

Poverty Reduction Program through Health Prevention and Income Generation (Quang Nam – Da Nang, 2005-2007)
Building Traditional Medicine Gardens for three community health stations, Quang Nam province (2007)
Reflect- Illiteracy Training for poor women in Tay Giang district, Quang Nam province (2007-2011)
CEFE-Trainings on small business promotion for poor women in Ngu Hanh Son district, Da Nang (2008)
Upgrading 2 Commnune Health Station in Atiêng commune and Bhalee commune, Tay Giang district, Quang Nam (2007 – 2008)
Gender and Grass-root Democracy Training in Tay Giang district, Quang Nam (2008)
Monitoring and Evaluation Training for members of Women’s Union in Ngu Hanh Son district, Da Nang (2008)
Improvement of the health situation of C’tu people in Tay Giang district, Quang Nam province (2008-2011)
Strengthening disaster preparedness on commune and district level in 13 flood and typhoon prone coastal districts in Danang (2009-2011)
Building Ahu village Kindergarten , Atieng commune, Tay Giang district, Quang Nam province (2012)
Promoting preservation and sustainable use of forests in Tay Giang district, Quang Nam province (2012-2016)
Inclusive Community based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) in Quang Nam Province (2012-2014)
Mainstream Disability into the National CBDRM program with participation/empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (2012-2013)
Inclusion of Persons with Disability in Disaster Risk Reduction (“Regional project”) (2012-2015)
Latrine Construction Project for poor families with blind family members in Hoa Vang, Da Nang (2014)
Renovation of Phong Lan Kindergarten in Da Nang (2014)
Upgrading Que Thuan Commune Health station in Que Son district and 2 commune health stations in Ch’ơm commune and Gari commune, Tay Giang dictrict, Quang Nam province (2015)
Building capacity and removing barriers of people with disabilities to learn about Disaster Risk Management (DRM) through accessible digital information systems (DAISY) (2015-2016)
Upgrading 2 Commune Health Stations in Nam Tra My dictrict, Quang Nam province (2016)
Widening participation of people with disabilities in CBDRM in Vietnam (2016-2018)
Strengthening the capacity of disaster response in Hanh Nhan and Hanh Duc communes, Nghia Hanh district, Quang Ngai Province (2017)
Upgrading 4 Commune Health Stations in Tra Don, Tra Cang, Tra Don, and Tra Tap communes, Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province (2017-2018)
Development of a green library for Tra Vinh Secondary Day-School for Ethnic Minority, Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province (2018)
Projects for Emergency Relief and rehabilitation after floods and typhoons in Quang Nam and Da Nang (2006, 2008, 2009, 2014)

1989

Malteser Hilfsdienst and rehabilitation activities in Vietnam

After the end of the war, Malteser Hilfsdient has came back to Vietnam with many projects in 1989:

Rehabilitation of Danang General Hospital (1989-1993)
Basic Health Programme on provincial, district and village level (1994-1998)
Basic Health Programme on provincial, district and village level at Hoa Vang, Tam Ky và Tien Phuoc districts, Quang Nam – Da Nang (1994)
Supply of a Blood Bank for Danang General Hospital (1995-1996)
Training of Community Health Workers and health awareness for rural women.
Nutrition and Health Awareness Programme in Quang Nam – Da Nang (1999-2002)
Small Business Promotion Programme for poor women in rural areas (1999-2004)
Nutrition and Health Awareness Programme in Phuoc Son, Quang Nam (2003-2004)
Poverty Reduction Programme through Health Prevention and Income Generation in Da Nang and Quang Nam (2005-2007)
Emergency relief and rehabilitation after typhoon in Quang Nam – Da Nang, Quang Nam province, Da Nang and Dong Thap Muoi (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004)

1966

Malteser Hilfsdienst helped civilians during the war in Vietnam

Malteser Hilfsdienst started in Vietnam in 1966. It had 303 Malteser doctors, nurses, medical staff, trainers, and administrators to help civilians between September 1966 and March 1975 during the war in Vietnam.

During the nine years of the Malteser deployment to Vietnam, they also established a variety of teaching workshops for metalworkers, carpenters, and car mechanics in the Province of Quang Nam. Allowing the Vietnamese themselves to take over the task of providing medical care in the long term was planned from the beginning on, and Malteser personnel were also responsible for training hospital staff. Over the years, the Maltesers responsibilities in Vietnam grew to include a school, a school for the blind, refugee camps, mobile ambulance stations, a leprosy clinic, an old people’s home, and an orphanage. In Da Nang city, C Hospital (German – Malteser Hilfsdienst Hospital before) has still kept some parts built by Malteser in 1968.

http://www.malteser-international.org/en/our-work/asia/vietnam/50-years-in-vietnam-politics-stays-at-the-hospital-door.html

CAB towards building capacity for each every person to ensure economic self-reliance and sustainability.

We help the poor, people with disabilities and ethnic minorities, especially women and children in terms of social integration through Empowerment Programs, based on internal resources and community organizations.

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Responsibility

Malteser: Malteser International, an INGO worked in the field of community-based disaster risk management since 2009 especially Disability inclusive community-based disaster risk management (DiCBDRM) from 2012 to 2018 in Da Nang, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Quang Tri. Furthermore, MI also worked in Policy Advocacy to help the people with disability to take the initiative in DiCBDRM participation in many provinces and cites in the country and in the international DiDRRN network. Over the last years, MI staff provided consultancy services on DiDRR/DiCBDRM and trainings in relation with development such as Fund raising program of NGOs (Germany RC, Australian RC, CMB, NDA, Caritas, Plan, DPOs ….)