Dr Dinh Thi Ngoc Bich

• Public policies, participation and empowerment, public private partnerships (PPP), public sector governance, stakeholder engagement

• Sustainable development: displacement and rehabilitation; conflict resolution, sustainable livelihoods and rehabilitation, community development, food security and poverty reduction, gender and ethnic minority, climate change and Clean Development Mechanism, mining &  environmental impact mitigation

• Private sector: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and branding, extractive industries, local outsourcing, sustainable value chain etc.

• International studies: EU study, the relationship between Vietnam and European countries; international cooperation policies

• Research method advocacy: Qualitative, participatory, participant observation

• PPP in practice: Accessing business goals in combating climate changes. Case of Vietnam

• Vietnam - Germany cooperation in combating climate change in Vietnam  

• Infrastructure to develop sustainable livelihoods for people in the coastal area in Ben Tre province, Vietnam, to adapt to climate change

Dr Dinh Thi Ngoc Bich joined the research group 'Pathways and Mechanisms of Global Cooperation' in September 2020 and will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre until August 2021.

PPP in practice: assessing business goals in combating climate change in the case of Vietnam

This research is prepared to meet a call which seeks to enhance understanding of the possibilities and limits of global cooperation and to explore new options for global public policy, particularly in the field of combating climate change. It is assumed that private actors would play a predominant role in achieving the global sustainable development goals (SDGs), where combating climate change is viewed as the Goal 13. So PPP can be a mechanism of global cooperation for SDGs. The research examines in which way the private actors cooperate with intergovernmental actors (such as World Bank, UNDP, GRI etc. ) as well as domestic governments in order to achieve SDGs while meeting their business goals? Based on the empirical data from the PPP practice in Vietnam, this research presents a specific type of PPP in the field of climate change, where  motivations or goals of the private sector participation are found to be different, depending on various perspectives of sustainable development studies - whether it is post-modern, ethical or economical. This research will also present an appropriate analytical framework based on the network theory to understand the insights of this collaboration process including the characteristics of participating actors, the collaboration patterns and the outcomes of the process. Viewing PPP as a governance strategy, which can be distinguished between contracting-out versus a partnership. This research will focus on the second type of PPPs which addresses the insights the public private collaboration and its practical outcomes to climate change governance on local and global levels.

• Institute for European Studies - Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences

• KU Leuven Alumni - Alumni Committee Member