Dr. Rohinton Medhora, who is in charge of IDRC programmes, confirmed further assistance at a conference with Vietnamese Government representatives and partners in Hanoi on February 25 to mark 20 years of the centre’s cooperation.

At the conference coinciding with the 40^th anniversary of the IDRC, Canadian and Vietnamese researchers presented the results of several IDRC-funded projects in the fields such as economic policy, information technology and communication, environmental sustainability, climate change and infectious diseases.

Since it started cooperation with Vietnam in 1990, the IDRC supported about 100 projects on poverty reduction and sustainable development in Vietnam worth over 24 million CAD aid.

The centre has also cooperated with many Vietnamese research institutes, including the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Centre of Socio-economic Development and the Veterinary Institute.