BASIC INFORMATION

The Centre for Public Health and Community Development (CEPHAD)

Address: Number 4/33, Tan Ap street, Phuc Xa ward, Ba Dinh district,Hanoi, Vietnam

Tel: (84-4)7168808    Fax: (84-4)7167972

Email:   ttgdskcd@hn.vnn.vn

The Center for public health and community development (CEPHAD for short) is a non-profit organization established in 1995 under the license of Vietnam Psycho - Pedagogical Association, Vietnam Union for Sciences and Technology Association and working in the field of public health, HIV/AIDS, gender and community-based development.

CEPHAD’s mission is to promote good health care, prevent HIV/AIDS and promote community development in order to contribute to the national socio-economic development. This is achieved by applying the most effective and appropriate strategies which focus on primary health care, gender, rural development, community development and research. 

Working approach: This is done by improving quality of care and changing behaviour through enhancing awareness, transferring knowledge, improving skills, upgrading facilities, mobilizing community participation and giving recommendations to policy makers.

Program sustainability

We strictly keep on a principle that in first stage of each project, CEPHAD would be responsible for implementing and managing activities and build up an effective model, and the result will be transfer to local partners to maintain and keep it ongoing. Nevertheless, monitoring and technical support will be continuously provided by CEPHAD to ensure that project goals and objectives to be met and kept. Participatory method is used in all project activities with the aim of mobilizing active participation from local authority levels, mass organizations and target groups.

CEPHAD Networks  include

-         HIV/AIDS Technical Working Group 

-         The Co-Operation and Development Group (C&DG) in Vietnam

-         Asia Pacific Reproductive Health Network.

-         The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) network and International Babyfood Action Network (IBFAN). 

-         Jamienette Network; HIV/AIDS Network

Practice areas:

-         Study/Research conducting

-         Intervention activities (health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, income generation, saving credit, breed and seed support …)

-         Training (vocational training, TOT, ….)

-         Advocacy, IEC/BCC (Workshop, IEC material development and production, Advocacy campaign…)

Priority topics covered

-         Primary and reproductive health care, health education, HIV/AIDS prevention.

-         Gender and gender equity and helping disadvantage children.

-         Community-based Development (including rural development, credit, agricultural promotion …)

-         Study/Research

 Strategy direction

-         Maintain and consolidate collaboration and cooperation in public health, gender, HIV/AIDS, and community based development.

-         Improve human resource management, focus on capacity building for staff.

-         Improve financial stability and income generation.

What we have done

From 1995 up to now, CEPHAD had carried out a range of activities to support PLWHA, street and mobile children, who are high-risk group to be abused and trafficked, in health care, in accessing information and counseling ….

Gender and gender equity is one of the priorities in our program. The Gender issue is integrated in all activities of projects as a part of community-based development and poverty eradication. Women and children are one of prioritised target groups in our projects in Yen Bai, Kom Tum, Phu Tho, Hanoi, Thai Binh as they are vulnerable for all the forms of abuse, violence, exploitation and trafficking, which could be resulted in HIV/AIDS infection. (We had participated in International Consultation “Traffic in women: Women’s rights and reintegration” in the Netherlands (February, 2004)

Keeping and promoting the collaboration and co-operation with local stakeholders, authorities and community people is considered as strategy for our program sustainability. A long with our project implementation, we has been built-up and remained close relation with Women Union, Committee for Population-Family-Children, Steering Committee for AIDS and drug/prostitution prevention, etc.

 RELEVANT STAFF

CEPHAD Departments are specialized in conducting research and projects in health care, HIV/AIDS and community development, focusing on livelihood improvement of people in Vietnam through the shifting cultivation, saving-credit programs, income generation and natural environment protection etc. 

 CEPHAD has an expertise consultant team with different backgrounds such as gender and development, sociology, economics, social welfare, rural development, social policies, environment, health care and so on. They can provide various consultancies of social issues such as assessment of gender and development,  poverty reduction, health care, assessment of project impacts, internal and external monitoring of implementation of projects, etc.

Besides, we have a large network of collaborators who are working and teaching in institutes and universities in several provinces in Vietnam..

 Training

We provide opportunity for CEPHAD staff to participate in training courses and conference/workshops in and out country with the aim of strengthening their capacity  in related areas.

 RELEVANT PROJECTS

Follows are name of main projects carried out by CEPHAD recently:

• Strengthening capacity for villagers in Nuoc Hai town, Hung Dao commune, Hoa An district, Cao Bang province in the area of health care, HIV/AIDS prevention and poverty reduction funded by Bread for the World in Hanoi. (2007-2009)
• Strengthening capacity of care and support for people living with HIV and community funded by Gender Fund Vietnamese - Sweden (2006-2007)
• Improvement of spiritual life and HIV prevention of migrant women coming to Hanoi to seek for jobs funded by ICCO in the Netherlands (2006-2008)
• Improving capacity of HIV/AIDS prevention for workplaces, community and PLWHA in Thai Binh and Phu Tho province, funded by ICCO (2006-2008)
• Intervention on prevention and solvement of street children situation in Hanoi and Thanh Hoa funded by Bread for the World (2006-2008)
• Strengthening the capacity for villagers in the area of health care and poverty eradication funded by Luxembourge Embassy in Hanoi (2004-2006).
• Empowerment of People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and community in involvement of HIV/AIDS prevention activities in Hanoi, funded by ICCO (1/2004 - 12/2005).
• Care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS and community people in Phu Tho and Thai Binh provinces, funded by ICCO (1/2004 – 12/2005)
• Improving spiritual life for street children living in Chuong Duong commune, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, funded by Bread for the World (11/2004 – 10/2005).
• Assessment on Micronutrition Day in Yen Bai province, funded by UNICEF (6/2004).
• Improving the Health Status of Women and Nutrition of Children Under Three Years in Tan Dong Commune, Tran Yen District, Yen Bai Province, funded by ICCO (2002-2003).
• Strengthening the Capacity of Villages in Dak Ruong Commune, Konray District, Kontum Province in the Areas of Health Care and Poverty Reduction, funded by ICCO (2002-2003).
• “Study on Sexual Behavior and HIV/AIDS Related Knowledge Level Among Men Living in Hanoi City”, funded by UNDP.  (2001)