With support of the Monetary Authorities Singapore (MAS) and the Gates Foundation AVPN is launching ImpactCollab; a marketplace platform providing access to verified charitable organisations, due diligence resources, and impact monitoring tools and this system aims to scale philanthropic capital deployment both domestically and globally. . Featuring a database of trusted impact organisations across Asia, ImpactCollab will lower the barrier to low risk and effective philanthropic giving.

On June 27 ImpactCollab will be launched publicly in the presence of ~250 invited guests. The platform itself will be presented and showcased, and a series of panels will be held to illustrate the inclusiveness, expansiveness and effectiveness of this new initiative.

Here is the expected agenda,

Session 1: Launch of the Governance Maturity Framework – a Collaboration between AVPN and SMU

Session 2: Bridging Finance & Impact: Powering Asia’s Changemakers – A Panel Discussion Among Impact Organisations and Networks, 30 minutes.

Moderator: Mr Alfred Poon, Director ImpactCollab

Panellists: Mrs Thoa Nguyen Bao – VIRI (Vietnam); Mr Romy Cahyadi, Interstellar (Indonesia); Mrs Vijaya Balaji – Social Lens (India); Mr Shiv Kumar – Catalyst Group (India)

Session 3: Perspectives on Philanthropy – a Conversation with Private Bankers and Private Bank Clients

VIRI will join the 2025 P4G Hanoi Summit on April 15-16-17, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, especially the Parallel Ministerial Session 01: Revitalizing and Unleashing Finance Strategy for Global Green Growth

This summit will convene global leaders, policymakers, business executives and changemakers to accelerate partnerships and investments that drive sustainable and inclusive growth. Under the theme “Global Partnership for Green Sustainability: Inclusion. Innovation. Responsible Actions,” these engagements will spotlight actionable climate solutions for a greener, more resilient future.

On 9-10/12/2024, VIRI will participate in the AVPN South Asia Summit 2024 at Chennai, India. The summit with the purpose of connecting and promoting the relative activities on climate action, youth empowerment, health impact, and gender equality. Together, we will delve into the transformative potential of philanthropy and impact investing in driving progress for South Asia.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to our Sao La booths in the Lifestyle International Trade Fair organized by Vietnam Handicraft Exporters Association (Vietcraft), VIRI wants to bring meaningful messages about sustainable production, responsible consumption and biodiversity conservation, especially protecting rare creatures like Sao La, known as the “Asian Unicorn” of the Truong Son mountain range. and seek your kind support to boost the export for Vietnamese Handicraft Sector.

Apart from visiting Sao La booth, you will also discover more than 1,600 booths of exhibitors from Vietnam and international.

Place: Quang Trung Software Park, Street No. 1, Tan Hung Thuan, District 12, Ho Chi Minh City

Booth No. A2

Time: October 18th to 21st, 2024

Quintessential products from ethnic minority groups in Vietnam will be introduced by VIRICO at the New York Now Fair taking place from August 4-7, 2024 in New York.

VIRI supported the design and product development as well as sought consultation from leading American market experts. Hopefully the fair will bring positive results, contributing to better livelihoods for ethnic minorities in Vietnam.

After three years of implementation, the project: Promotion of supply and demand of Eco-Fair Agri-food processing products in Vietnam) has achieved great success with positive impacts recognized by the European Union, the Switch Asia program, DCRD, Vietrade, Associations, and business units participating in the project. Therefore, with the nomination of the Switch Asia Program, the Eco Fair project will participate the Annual Meeting: Sustainable consumption and production: Trends and Opportunities” in Bangkok on 21 November 2023 at the Session on Agrifood. The meeting aim to share experiences from private sectors on best practices and how to achieve agri and food sustainable consumption and collecting the ideas on how private sectors can promote agri and food sustainable consumption and how to collaborate with government and other stakeholders to achieve ag and food sustainable consumption. And Eco Fair project will share about these topic below:

1) The benefits of green procurement and ecolabel food

2) Some examples of successful implementation of green procurement and ecolabel food products and best practices to achieve them.

3) The challenges in delivering a green market for sustainable agriculture and food consumption and recommendations to collaborate with private sectors, government and other stakeholders to promote ag and food sustainable consumption.

VIRI will join the SWITCH-Asia Programme 5th Annual Meeting from 9-10 October 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The Annual Meeting shall focus on discussing strategies that make impact of the SWITCH-Asia Grant Projects more profound and lasting; exploring potential avenues of connecting knowledge of grants and policy making processes; Exchange ideas and share insights on developing and mainstreaming SCP and circular economy practices; promoting the co-creation of innovative SCP solutions and to strengthen mutual learning between grant projects and policy advisory, optimizing the overall efficacy, reach, and sustainability of SCP initiatives; offering the stakeholders of the Programme an opportunity to discuss, plan and innovate together towards joint multi-country SCP initiatives in the framework of the PSCl facilitating development of ideas for future technical assistance of the SWITCH-Asia Policy Support Component (PSC).

The Eco-Fair project funded by EU-Switch Asia program (2020-2023) will have a display booth to disseminate results and impact of the project at this Switch Asia Annual Meeting.

Dr. Nguyen Bao Thoa, director of the Project “Promotion of supply and demand of Eco-Fair agri-food processing products in Vietnam” (Eco Fair project) (led by VIRI), will be speaker at the EU side event COP27 in Nov. 09, 2022 in Egypt: Recipes for change: how a sustainable food system can curb carbon emissions The event will show-case the role of circular economy approaches in curbing emissions along the food value-chain providing successful examples funded by the EU through its SWITCH regional programmes in Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean. Lastly, it will provide visibility to the implementation of the external dimension of the EU “From Farm to Fork Strategy” and the “EU Circular Economy Action Plan”. The event specific objectives are to highlight circular economy and other policy approaches that accelerate the transition of the agri-food value-chain to a low-carbon industry in partner countries; showcase examples of low-carbon agri-food enterprises (notably MSMEs) supported by the EU SWITCH regional programmes; and engage youth and the general public by promoting low-carbon nutrition and lifestyles. The Eco-Fair project is very active on these objectives and will share Vietnam experience on eco-fair promotion, which is expected to be a valuable contribution to this panel