Development Workshop

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Development Workshop (DW) is a non-profit organization providing assistance for poor and disadvantaged communities in the developing countries. Established in 1973. Works in more than 30 countries of Asia, Africa, the Americas.

The Organization promotes technical assistance, training, research projects, including the following spheres: shelter, basic services, infrastructure, livelihoods and local economic development, governance, post-conflict reconstruction and disaster mitigation. It is funded by non-government organizations, private citizens, national and international development agencies. DW is not a funding organization and it does does not raise funds directly from the public.

There are three main DW centres (Canada, France, Angola) and offices in Burkina Faso, Niger, Vietnam and Mali (DW Mali Habitat et Environment). Development Workshop France (DWF), by its declaration, is involved in the following activities in Vietnam:

Preventive strengthening promotion against natural disasters;^[1]
Encouraging the family prevention groups and civic capacity building through the Commune Damage Prevention Committee;
Poverty reduction;
Training programmes in schools, developing access to small loans for families, micro-production units for storm resistant components production.^[2]

Development Workshop initiated humanitarian network "Angonet", funded by UNDP,^[3] and in partnership with One World Action contributed to giving access to clean water for about 300,000 people in Angola.