ActionAid Vietnam is a part of ActionAid International (AAI), a unique partnership of poor and excluded people, organisations, and social movements committed to fighting poverty and injustice. ActionAid International is a new organisation combining affiliates and associates governed by an overarching International Board of Trustees and supported by an International Secretariat. ActionAid International works with poor and excluded people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean who are denied their rights to live in dignity. Since 1989, it has worked in Vietnam in the most remote and poorest regions. 

AAV focuses its work on mobilising and empowering poor and excluded people so they can claim their rights and entitlements, as well as on enhancing their capability and collective voice to influence and shape policies, while holding government policy makers and other development actors accountable for decisions and programmes that affect the lives of people.     

At present, ActionAid Vietnam is working in 20 provinces through the country with a total of over 100,000 poor households directly benefiting from its programme activities. Various programmes are implemented in both long-term development areas (DA) and development initiatives (DI) with local and community-based partner organisations.