Social Science Research Council
With support from the Ford Foundation and other funders, the SSRC has long been engaged in a program of research training with Vietnamese social scientists. The goals of the SSRC Vietnam Program include:
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providing an international model of interdisciplinary social science research and training for Vietnamese researchers and policy planners;
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facilitating international and local researchers to collaboratively investigate the social dimensions of economic reform (thus developing in-depth literature on this case for comparison with other societies undergoing rapid economic and social transformation); and
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enhancing inter-institutional cooperation in providing the research basis that would better inform the environment in which planning for the consequences of rapid social change takes place.
In the long term, the main goal of the program is to contribute to the development of improved curricula and degree programs in Vietnamese universities and research institutes and to build the infrastructure and institutional capacity that will nurture the independent and globally connected practice of social science in Vietnam.
The program is additionally intended to draw Vietnamese researchers as individuals and Vietnam as a case into regional and international discussions of the social consequences of economic transition. The program has recently concentrated on two projects: the Social Science Research Training Program in Vietnam and the Research and Training Project in Southern Vietnam. In addition, the program has been enlisted to assist in a self-evaluation by Atlantic Philanthropies of its Vietnam Population Health Program.
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