From August 14 - 16, 2025, in Quang Tri Province, Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC), in collaboration with the Quang Tri Provincial Department of Health, organized an advanced training on psychological support for persons with disabilities and their family members. This activity followed the basic training held in July 2025 and is part of the project “Independent living and social inclusion for persons with disabilities in Quang Tri, Vietnam”, funded by Green Cross Switzerland (GCCH).
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On July 15 - 16, 2025, at the Muong Thanh Grand Quang Tri Hotel, Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC), in collaboration with the Quang Tri Provincial Department of Health, successfully organized a basic training course on psychological support for persons with disabilities and their family members. The activity is part of the project “Independent living and social inclusion for persons with disabilities in Quang Tri, Vietnam”, funded by Green Cross Switzerland.
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On June 8th and 9th, 2023, ACDC in collaboration with the Da Nang Association of People with Disabilities organized "Training on teamwork skills in career development". The activity is within the framework of the project “Promoting access to comprehensive support to PWDs” funded by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Within 2 days, from May 18th to May 19th 2023, the ACDC Institute, along with the Vietnam National Committee for Persons with Disabilities and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy, had organized the training session “Training on lending for persons with disabilities and enterprises engaged in production or business activity that employs persons with disabilities ”. The activity is among a series of activities to promote the effective implementation of policies for persons with disabilities of the Inclusion 1 Project, coordinated by ACDC. The project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the management of National Action Centre for Toxic Chemicals and Environmental Treatment (NACCET) – belong to Ministry of Defense, through the Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP)
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On April 21, 2023, ACDC in collaboration with the Project Management Board "Raising Voices, Creating Opportunities-II" project in Quang Nam province and Quang Nam Department of Transport to organize training course "Skills to support persons with disabilities in traffic" for managers, drivers and driver assistants of public passenger transport businesses in Quang Nam province. The training course attracted more than 45 participants from business and passenger transport units such as: QNABUS Quang Nam Transport Trading Service One Member Co., Ltd, Mai Linh Co., Ltd., Sun Taxi Company, Duy Xuyen District General Business and Transport Service Cooperative, Bao Chau Truong Xuan Private Enterprise, Tam Ky transport Cooperative…
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On March 26, 2023, the ACDC Institute organized a training course for parents and caregivers of children with disabilities in Hanoi with the theme: Online safety for children with disabilities. The training course had the participation of 26 parents and caregivers of children with disabilities. The activity is part of the project "Prevention of physical and mental violence and discrimination against children with disabilities" (AVAC) implemented by ACDC with the support of the Hong Kong Children's Rescue Organization and the coordination of the Children's Rescue Organization in Vietnam.
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ACDC and the Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) collaborated to host a training session on the subject of preventing gender-based violence against persons with disabilities in Quang Tri province on March 16 and 17, 2023. More than 41 representatives from communal health stations, legal aid offices, OPDs, and women's unions from districts including Huong Hoa, Dakrong, and Hai Lang attended the course. The program was designed to increase participants' understanding of gender-based violence against women with disabilities as well as their capacity to identify, screen for, and handle such situations.
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On March 14th - 15th, 2023, in Thua Thien Hue province, ACDC in collaboration with the Project Management Unit and relevant agencies organized “Training on gender-based violence for women with disabilities and their caregivers” with the participation of 60 participants from two districts of Phu Loc and Nam Dong.
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Within the project "Raising voices, creating opportunities- II" funded by USAID, ACDC in collaboration with the Project Management Unit and the Department of Transport of Thua Thien Hue province organized "Training on disability equality and skills in working with persons with disabilities for managers, taxi/bus drivers, and bus assistants". The training course has attracted the participation of more than 30 drivers, driving assistants, and their managers in the province.
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In order to enhance knowledge about online safety and the ability to recognize and prevent risks in cyberspace for children with disabilities, ACDC organized a training course on smart and safe internet usage in Hanoi. The training course took place on March 4th and 5th, 2023, with the participation of 15 students with various types of disabilities.
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On 25 – 26/2, the course “Training on Cyber safety for disabled offsprings” was conducted in Da Nang. The training course was organized by ACDC, in collaboration with Da Nang Center for Inclusive Education Development Support, under the project “Physical, mental violation and behavior discrimination prevention to special needs children”. The project was funded by Save the Chilren Hong Kong Organization, under the management of the organization Save the Children Vietnam.
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"When the commune officer sent out invitations to training, I intended not to go because I thought I had such a disability to do something inconvenient and embarrassing to everyone. Unexpectedly, when I came here, I heard that persons with disabilities (PWD) can also live independently, can also integrate; able to do some things with support and a favorable environment, I feel more confident. If there are training courses on PWD in the future, I would also like to continue to participate." – Mr. N.V.K - Person with disabilities in Tra Son commune, Bac Tra My district said with emotion.
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On February 23rd -24th, 2023, within the framework of the USAID – funded project "Raising voices, creating opportunities for persons with disabilities in the 2021-2024 period", ACDC in collaboration with the Project Management Unit organized a training course on “Improved capacity on IL and DET for persons with disabilities and personal caregivers” in Hue city and Nam Dong district, Thua Thien Hue province.
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Transportation is a vital sector that contributes to increasing the opportunity for persons with disabilities to access other sectors, for instance, education, employment, healthcare, etc. In other words, removing barriers for persons with disabilities in the transportation sector will enhance their social assitance. Hence, apart from installing accessible bus stations, raising awareness for service providers in this sector is also critical. Training on disability equity and skills on working with persons with disabilities implemented by ACDC on February 24 also aimed at the above goals.
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“This training course is superb. I had no idea what gender was or what the distinction between gender and sex was. Now I understand these concepts and know how to protect myself from gender-based violence. I would like to say thank you to the facilitators and the project.” – That is a sharing from Ms. H.T.C, a woman with a disability in Dakrong district after the “Training on gender-based violence for persons with disabilities”.
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On 9th -10th, February, in Thua Thien Hue Province, ACDC Institute cooperated with the project management unit of the project "Raising voices, creating opportunities for persons with disabilities in the period of 2021-2024" to organize "Training on GBV against persons with disabilities for Hospital staff/ Legal staff”. The training course took place successfully and attracted more than 39 trainees who are health workers, legal officials, members of the women union, and members of the OPDs from district to commune levels of 3 localities: Nam Dong, Phu Loc districts, and Huong Thuy town.
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On February 9-10, 2023, ACDC coordinated with the provincial Organization of Persons with Disabilities to organize training course on independent living for approximately 70 persons with disabilities and their families in Gio Linh district and Quang Tri town. The activity’s aim is to raise awareness of independent living and social assitance for persons with disabilities and caregivers in Quang Tri province.
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In the past 2 days from January 12 to 13, 2023, ACDC in collaboration with the Project Management Board "Raising Voices, Creating Opportunities Project - Phase II" Quang Nam province organized activities “Training on gender violence prevention for women with disabilities”. The activity aims to raise awareness and skills of women with disabilities in the prevention of gender-based violence.
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The physical environment at home and outside the community has a significant impact in the ability of persons with disabilities to live independently and to better integrate into society. In other words, it is crucial to figure out how to create a safe house or public works access for the disabled so that they can live independently and readily take part in community activities. To contribute to solving the above problem and improving knowledge about physical access for persons with disabilities in houses as well as public works, the Action to Community Development Institute (ACDC) has coordinated with the project coordinators board of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam provinces respectively organized training courses on physical access for relevant officials and disabled people's organization in the area in December 2022.
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Due to many objective and subjective factors, persons with disabilities, especially women and girls with disabilities, are at high risk of gender violence. To strengthen knowledge and skills to support persons with disabilities with gender violence to relevant agencies, on November 29-30, 2022 in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province, a training course on "Prevention of gender-based violence against persons with disabilities for relevant agencies" was held.
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On November 24, 2022, 31 staff working in disability-related fields such as Justice, Policy, Women's Union, Youth Union, Front, Health, Quarter Chief, and community health workers in Ward 5, Dong Ha city was trained on independent living for persons with disabilities.
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The series of children’s rights training sessions for parents and caregivers of CWD conducted by ACDC was held on October 29-30 and November 13. The training series consists of two major topics: Knowledge of Child Rights, child protection, child rights reporting mechanism, child rights violation, and Communication Skills for Parents/Carers of CWD.
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On November 6, 2022, ACDC held a training course on how to operate a children's rights communication session for parents and caregivers of CWD. The activity is part of the project “Increased accountability to eliminate violence and discrimination against children with disabilities” (AVAC )implemented by ACDC under the sponsorship of Save the Children Hong Kong and the coordination of Save the Children in Vietnam.
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Within the framework of the project "Raising voices, create opportunities for persons with disabilities in Thua Thien Hue province in the 2021-2024 period" funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on October 19th -20th 2022, a training course on "Independent living and disability equality for relevant officials and the OPDs" took place in Hue city. The activity was organized by Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) and Thua Thien Provincial Project Management Unit.
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From October 13 to October 17, 2022, the ACDC Institute, in collaboration with the Disaster Management Policy and Technology Center (DMPTC), has organized a training course on information gathering tools for persons with disabilities. The activity was within the framework of the project “Information accessibility for persons with disabilities and organizations of persons with disabilities”, sponsored by CBM. The training course was opened on the International Day for Disaster Reduction, October 13.
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From September 27-28, 2022, in Hanoi, a training course for the TOT group on prevention and response to gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities in the online environment" was held. The activity is within the framework of the project “Enhancing the information accessibility for persons with disabilities and organizations for persons with disabilities” funded by CBM.
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On September 24-25, the "Training on children's rights for children with disabilities" was held in Da Nang. The training course was organized by ACDC in collaboration with the Danang Center for IEDS within the framework of the project "Increased accountability to eliminate violence and discrimination against children with disabilities”. The project is funded by Save the Children Hong Kong and coordinated by Save the Children Vietnam.
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On September 7, 2022, in Thua Thien Hue province, the Action to Community Development Institute (ACDC) collaborated with the Project Management Unit to organize a training course on "Working with persons with disabilities and the proper use or features in accessible buses” The program has attracted the participation of more than 30 managers, drivers, and car assistants of transport enterprises in the province.
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Within the framework of the project "Strengthening integration and independent living for persons with disabilities", from July 8, 2022 to July 16, 2022, in Quang Tri province, 5 training courses on "Skills in caring for persons with disabilities” were organized for 125 health officers. They are the team taking care of persons with disabilities in the community and at home of 3 districts: Trieu Phong, Vinh Linh and Cam Lo. The activity was carried out by ACDC and Quang Tri Provincial Department of Health.
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From 14 - 15/07/2022, in Que Son district and Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam province, 2 training courses on independent living for persons with disabilities and their family members took place. The training attracted the participation of more than 60 practitioners who are persons with disabilities and family members of persons with disabilities. The training course trainers are officials of the Provincial Organization of Persons with Disabilities, commune-level socio-cultural civil servants and officials at health stations of 2 localities. The activity is within the project "Enhancing opportunities, empowering persons with disabilities - Phase II".
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On July 08-09, 2022, within the framework of the project "Raising voices, creating opportunities for persons with disabilities in the period of 2021 - 2024" in Thua Thien Hue province, ACDC coordinated with the Project Management Unit to organize a training course on “Independent Living and Disability Equality for persons with disabilities and caregivers” in Quang Dien district and Huong Tra town. The project is sponsored by the USAID.
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On June 28 and 30, 2022, ACDC cooperated with Quang Tri Organization of Persons with Disabilities, Agent Orange Victims, Protection of persons with disabilities and Children's Rights (OPD) to organize 02 training classes on Independent Living and Disability Equity. The event’s purpose was to build awareness around independent living and disability equity for persons with disabilities and their caregivers. This is an activity within the framework of the project "Raising voices, creating opportunities for persons with disabilities – II" sponsored by USAID.
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Currently, children with disabilities face many factors that violate their basic rights or exclude their participation. This is also a group of people who are easily discriminated against due to physical factors, disability, poverty, etc. Therefore, raising awareness of children's rights, participation and protection for children with disabilities is extremely important. Understanding this issue, on June 29-30, the "Training on children's rights for children with disabilities" was organized by within the framework of the project "Increased accountability to eliminate violence and discrimination against children with disabilities (AVAC)”.
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Due to many objective and subjective factors, persons with disabilities, especially women and girls with disabilities, are a group at high risk of gender-based violence. According to the Impact Assessment Report on gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities of the project "Strengthening opportunities and enhancing the status of persons with disabilities – phase 2", a significant proportion of women and girls with disabilities have experienced gender-based violence in various forms. This report also points out that the skills of stakeholders to support women and girls with disabilities experiencing gender-based violence still have certain limitations; inter-sectoral coordination to prevent gender-based violence has not yet been highly effective.
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Gender-based violence is one of the issues that has been receiving much attention from the whole society, especially gender-based violence against disadvantaged groups. As part of a series of activities to enhance the prevention of gender-based violence against persons with disabilities, on June 16-17 in Thua Thien Hue province, the ACDC collaborated with the Project Management Unit to organize a training course on “Gender-based violence against persons with disabilities for health staff and legal staff”.
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From June 9 to June 15, the International Youth Training Program was held in Kocaeli, Turkey. The activity under the project “Enable the Cooperation, Disable the Barriers” is implemented by ACDC under the Erasmus+ Program funded by the European Union. This is a project that aims to strengthen the capacity of youth organizations including youth with disabilities in youth activities at the local, national and international levels, as well as, increase their active and sustainable participation of youth and promote sustainable cooperation among NGOs.
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“I have been looking forward to a training course like this for a long time, and when I was invited by the commune official, I agreed to attend immediately. I hope this training course is widely disseminated so that women with disabilities have knowledge about gender-based violence and know how to prevent and protect themselves." That is the sharing of Ms. C.T.L, Tra Duong commune, Bac Tra My district during the training course “Prevention of gender-based violence for persons with disabilities and their families” in Quang Nam on June 8 & 10, 2022.
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Nowadays, women in general and women with disabilities in particular have been experiencing at least one form of violence such as sexual violence, mental and financial violence,… Therefore, on May 30-31, 2022, in Thua Thien Hue province, the Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) coordinated with the Provincial Project Management Unit to organize a training course on "Gender-based violence issues for persons with disabilities and caregivers”.
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Physical access is one of the key factors in promoting social assistance for persons with disabilities. In fact, many persons with disabilities, families of persons with disabilities, and even the staff of departments or policy-implementing units of persons with disabilities are still limited in knowledge and skills related to accessibility standards in construction. In order to contribute to improving this issue, in May, ACDC cooperated with stakeholders to organize 2 training courses "Physical access for association officials and officials of related departments" in Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue provinces.
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From May 16 to 19, the course "Training to improve the capacity of source lectures on gender-based violence prevention and peer counselling skills in supporting victims of gender-based violence" was held at Hoi An city, Quang Nam province. The activity was organized by ACDC in collaboration with the Association of People with Disabilities, Agent Orange Victims, Sponsoring People with Disabilities and Protecting Children's rights in Quang Tri province; The Association of People with Disabilities - Sponsoring People with Disabilities and Orphans in Thua Thien Province and the Association of People with Disabilities in Quang Nam Province.
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On May 5th -6th, 2022,ACDC coordinated with Quang Tri Organization of Persons with Disabilities, Agent Orange Victims, Protection of persons with disabilities and Children's Rightsto organize 02 training classes on Conduct training on GBV issues for persons with disabilities and their caregivers” in Quang Tri province. The activity attracted the participation of more than 60 persons with disabilities/caregivers, including 26 women with disabilities from Cam Lo, Trieu Phong, and Dong Ha districts.
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In the framework of the project “Enhance information access opportunity for persons with disabilities and organizations of people with disabilities” funded by CBM Germany organization, from the day 28 to 31 March 2022, ACDC held the training “Improve effective online working skills” on the Zoom platform.
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Within the framework of Phase 2 of the “Creating Opportunities and Empowering People with Disabilities (PWDs)" project (2021 - 2024) in Thua Thien Hue Province, Quang Tri Province and Quang Nam Province, training courses on “Independent Living” were organized for cadres of associations and relevant organizations.
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On March 11, 2022, more than 30 cadres of related organizations such as the Women's Union, the Red Cross Union, and the Health Center attended a training course on Independent Living of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) at Hai Son Commune, Hai Lang District, Quang Tri Province. Mr. Nguyen Tuan Thap - Chairman of Hai Lang District Association of PWDs, Agent Orange Victims, , Sponsoring PWDs and Protecting Children's Rights also participated in this course.
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On March 4th - 5th, 2022, the Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) collaborated with the provincial Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) to organize a training course on “Independent Living (IL) and Disability Equality Training (DET)” at Dong Ha city, Quang Tri province.
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