How can your company help fight COVID-19 in Vietnam?

Depending on the specific intervention, private sector assistance could take the form of: 

  • Expertise and skill sets (e.g., supply chain, data analytics, marketing/communications, technology and innovation) 
  • Use of company assets (e.g., locations for vaccinations, equipment)  
  • Collaboration with and/or funding of local or international organizations undertaking COVID response programs 
  • Provision of funding or donated items to government entities

Country-Specific Needs

Increasing Vaccine Access & Delivery

Logistics, Warehousing, and Infrastructure 

  • Support outsourcing of, or provide donation for, cold-chain maintenance, supplies, and equipment
  • Improve existing vaccine delivery infrastructure to increase vaccinations in remote/rural areas

Vaccine distribution planning and sites of delivery

  • Provide technical assistance or funding for distribution of vaccines and operational costs; sponsor sites in key locations around the country; support site setup (e.g., awnings, handwashing stations, chairs/tables)
  • Support mass vaccination and mobile clinics, especially in workplace settings
  • Provide expertise for provincial-level micro-planning and training of health staff on vaccine availability
  • Provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health on improving last-mile vaccine delivery

Staffing, Training, and Administration

  • Provide additional human resources at vaccine administration sites (e.g., volunteers)

Data and Monitoring

  • Provide management or IT support for logistical challenges to government and/or NGOs handling vaccinations

Incentives and Messaging

  • Assist with demand generation for vaccines via distribution of targeted communications by key influencers and social media
  • Provide branded/message-focused materials for health workers to create awareness (e.g., t-shirts, arm bands, umbrellas, aprons, head scarfs, vests)

Expanding Availability of Tests, Therapeutics, and/or Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Supply Availability and Logistics

  • Support procurement of, or provide donation for, molecular diagnostic tests, rapid diagnostic tests, other diagnostic equipment, oxygen supplies (e.g., ventilators, medical equipment), and PPE
  • Provide assistance to workers, families, and/or communities by  paying, or subsidizing, COVID-19 testing fees or providing robust testing services within factory/community settings 
  • Support procurement of oxygen support systems and development of oxygen supply management systems for provinces in need

Staffing, Training, and Administration

  • Scale-up training courses on COVID-19 procedures and protocols for frontline healthcare workers and expand trainings for volunteers/students 
  • Provide training and expertise at the hospital level in areas such as infection, prevention, control, and COVID testing practices

Other

  • Assist in food security measures for COVID-19 patients and their families
  • Provide retraining for displaced workers
  • Build capacity of small and medium-enterprises to increase their participation in supply chains and to drive efficiencies and improvements in communication across supply chains

For Vietnam-specific questions, or to coordinate assistance, please contact the USAID/Vietnam Mission: Kim Thuy Oanh at okim@usaid.gov; Ritu Singh at risingh@usaid.gov and please copy the COVID-19 Taskforce Private Sector Engagement team in Washington, DC at covid-pse@usaid.gov

The purpose of this Country Profile is to provide information to the public regarding possible COVID-19 needs and priorities in specific countries.  This is not a Request for Information, Request for Proposal (RFP), or Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and in no way commits USAID to issue an RFP/NOFO or to make an award.  This does not constitute an obligation of funds, nor does it constitute a legally binding commitment or create any rights in any third party.  Nothing in this shall be construed as a partnership or other type of legal entity or personality or as an exclusive working relationship.  Organizations are responsible for any and all expenses incurred relating to actions or activities undertaken related to this Country Profile.  This Country Profile is a work of the United States Government.  Use of this Country Profile by an organization does not imply endorsement by USAID of the organization or its activities.