Huong Tran, based in Hanoi, Vietnam, has served as the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Coordinator for the Australian Volunteers Program in the East Asia region since 2018. With over 20 years of experience in the development sector, Huong has contributed to the successful delivery of aid programs across Cambodia, China, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Vietnam, working through national execution and managing contractor models.
Her work has focused on strengthening institutional capacity in public finance, health, education, governance, justice, agriculture, transport, and climate change resilience. She is skilled in generating evidence to inform decision-making and enhance program performance. She is well-versed in the systems and processes of major development partners, including the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the World Bank.
Huong’s expertise includes conducting client satisfaction surveys in urban water and sanitation, as well as public health services in disadvantaged communes, and providing mid-term and final evaluations, situation analyses, and public expenditure reviews at both provincial and national levels. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor’s in International Trade and completed professional training with The Evaluators’ Institute in 2015.
Huong will be speaking on day two of the conference in the breakout on Building resilient programmes through volunteering, where she will share a case study about how, the Center for Knowledge Co-creation and Development Research (CKC), a Vietnam-based research organisation, in collaboration with the Australian Volunteers Program, began a three-year participatory action research initiative to explore and strengthen organisational capacity.
