- Education: Urgent needs in building and upgrading preschool educational institutions; fostering and training preschool teachers, training and fostering skills for child nurturers in children's groups and families. There is a great demand for cooperation in building and expanding primary and secondary school facilities, equipping function rooms, and health rooms, developing library systems, and building clean water systems in both urban and rural schools. Currently, there are over 22,152 children in difficult circumstances and over 1,260 children in extremely difficult circumstances in the province. Therefore, there is a need for long-term scholarships for disadvantaged children to learn from primary to university, this is the chance for them and their families to be wealthier.

- Health: There is in high demand in supporting the upgrading and repairing of commune-level health facilities, and medical equipment within the province; training to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment skills of doctors in the province, especially at commune health stations in rural areas.

- Solving social problems: The great need is to focus on improving the quality of lives of people in mountainous areas, ethnic minority areas. Simultaneously, improving health care, education, environmental sanitation, housing, and clean water for daily life… for disadvantaged people that associated with new rural construction. For urban areas and areas where industrial zones are concentrated, rapid mechanical population growth come along with many social security problems that need to focus on solving such as needs for accommodation, transportation, learning conditions, health, environment, vocational training, and so on.

- There are tens of thousands of people with disabilities in the province, of which: People with severe and especially severe disabilities are over 32.6 thousand people; 3,531 children with disabilities (ages 0-16); 2831 Agent Orange victims are deformed. One of the main causes is the effects of dioxins from the war with long-term sequelae over the generations. In addition to taking care, nurturing, and supporting from all levels of government and people in the province, it is necessary to have help from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals for health care, medical treatment, rehabilitation for disadvantaged people, improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and Agent Orange victims, helping them confidently integrate into the community.

- There are over 198,000 ethnic minority people, including many ethnic minority households with difficulties and substandard housing in Dong Nai province. Therefore, the need to be financed to build houses, helped in livestock, and crops so that people can stabilize their lives out of poverty sustainably is essential.

- Training & Vocational Education: Dong Nai province wishes to cooperate in activities of exchange, linkage, supply, supplementing highly qualified vocational experts and teachers for schools, centers, and vocational training institutions, linking training and practice, schools and businesses. Supporting in vocational training, along with job creation for disadvantaged people, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and immigrant workers.

- After 3 years of implementing the Program on strengthening cooperation and mobilizing foreign non-governmental aid, there are cooperations with 124 turns of individuals, FNGOs and other donors (FDI enterprises, business associations, trade countries) in Dong Nai province, implementing 136 programs, projects, and non-project aids, with a total committed budget of nearly 12 million USD, equivalent to 275.3 billion VND.

Mid-term preliminary conference on the implementation of The Program on strengthening FNGOs aid mobilization and cooperation in Dong Nai Province in the period of 2019– 2025.

The responsible collaboration of many FNGOs and other donors both material and technical has accompanied with the government of Dong Nai province to bring out significant changes for a part of people including people with disabilities and children in difficult circumstances; timely support medical supplies for Dong Nai to repel and control the Covid -19 pandemic. Government and People of Dong Nai Province appreciate and sincerely thanks the positive contributions of organizations and individuals who have given good feelings, and attached to Dong Nai province while you are also facing difficulties due to the pandemic. Moreover, through the implementation of FNG projects, the solidarity and friendship between the people of Dong Nai province and the people of other countries has bare fruit.

From the above favorable results, Dong Nai province always believes that in the coming time, we will continue to receive the cooperation of FNGOs and other donors to implement more practical and effective projects, contributing to striving to accelerate the achievement of the province's sustainable development goals. Simultaneously, expanding friendship and people-to-people cooperation with many countries around the world.

On behalf of (Department of Foreign Non-Governmental Affair)​