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Evidence-based international development at scale

East Meets West is an international NGO pioneering evidence-based programs in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), healthy cities, and resilient communities. In the United States, we are known as Thrive Networks.

We Help Millions of People

We empower underserved communities with access to essential services, including clean water, improved sanitation, and climate-resilient WASH solutions.

  • People impacted since 1988
    7.4M
    People impacted since 1988
  • People supported with clean water
    1.6M
    People supported with clean water
  • People with improved sanitation
    1.3M
    People with improved sanitation

What We Do

Our priority programs are Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Healthy Cities, and Resilient Communities

  • WASH

    WASH

    Through our WASH program, we work in partnership with government institutions, women’s and citizens’ groups, grassroots organizations, and researchers to bring water, sanitation, hygiene services and solutions to underserved communities.

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  • Healthy Cities

    Healthy Cities

    We are part of a team of organizations implementing the USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project in Danang, Vietnam, which aims to refocus city policies, planning, and services with a health equity lens while improving data-driven decision-making for smart cities.

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  • Resilient Communities

    Resilient Communities

    Since 1988, East Meets West has been supporting the needs of rural and peri-urban communities in Vietnam and continues to support projects to build resilient communities, one family at a time, because we know small-scale programs can be incubators for larger impact programs of the future.

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Where We Work

  • Cambodia
    Cambodia
    We have been working in Cambodia since 2009 implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs.
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  • Laos
    Laos
    Since 2014, our office in Vientiane has been dedicated to delivering water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
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  • Viet Nam
    Viet Nam
    Established in 1988, our offices in Hanoi and Danang deliver WASH, Healthy Cities, and Resilient Communities programs, and is where we incubate new programs.
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In Our News

  • Mid-term Review Report: Women-Led Output-Based Aid (WOBA) Vietnam
    02
    Jan
    Mid-term Review Report: Women-Led Output-Based Aid (WOBA) Vietnam
    This report presents and discusses the findings of the mid-term evaluation of WOBA Vietnam. The evaluation assesses WOBA’s progress towards its planned outcomes and support learning by exploring the effectiveness of the strategies and activities implemented from June 2018 to June 2021. The report explores some initial indications of impacts and sustainability. It provides important recommendation in the ongoing implementation of the program and progress towards the project’s end-of-program outcomes.
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  • A glance of the CCN activities
    02
    Jan
    A glance of the CCN activities
    This video is a summary of the practical activities that CCN members did over 6 months of the pilot. Each month, members learnt a topic and practiced an adaptation activity that they could do in their own home and village.
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  • Living with Flood
    02
    Jan
    Living with Flood
    Living with Flood is a collection of stories told by villagers and village chiefs in the rural villages of Cambodia about their experiences of living with flood. It was filmed in October 2021 in Prey Veng province, shortly after the peak period of flooding.
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