Vietnam Canada Environment Project (VCEP)

In 1995, ESSA and SNC-Lavalin were successful in winning the first phase of what became a 2-phase, 10-year, million project to improve the management and protection of Vietnam’s environment, by strengthening the capacities of key national government and provincial entities to manage industrial and urban pollution, implement environmental impact assessments and conduct environmental monitoring. VCEP continued to 2004, using a “Train the Trainers” approach to train over 2,000 people. According to CIDA’s final evaluation, VCEP is considered to be “CIDA’s best environmental project in Southeast Asia in the past 10 years”.