Message from the Director

Message from Jean-Marc GRAVELLINI, Director of AFD’s Hanoi Agency

Dear readers,

I arrived recently in Vietnam, together with my colleagues Jean-Claude PIRES and Matthieu DISCOUR, and through this first letter, I wanted to inform you on our the new organization of our office in Hanoi, but I also wanted to reaffirm the fruitful partnership that AFD has built with Vietnam.

On our updated website, you could find our new organization chart, as well as several articles regarding a recent interview with Mr. CAO Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture et Rural Developement, and a report on the Summer University of Social Sciences in Tam Dao about Gender and Ethnicity.

The whole team is working to prepare an important meeting with the Vietnamese authorities on 21 and 22 November 2011 in Paris, to review our activities and examine strategical and operational perspectives in the coming years.

We will try to make this website as much interactive as possible, so that you could find here updated news on the programs that we finance, but also on the thoughts that we develop together with our partners.

I hope you enjoy your reading.

Jean-Marc GRAVELLINI

Director of the Hanoi Agency