Title: VIIth Francophony Summit - Hanoi, Vietnam
Client: Government of Vietnam
Country: Vietnam
Year: 1996 - 1998
Financing: C.I.D.A.
Description of project and services rendered
Intergovernmental and multilateral project, the Francophony Summit aims to implement institutional reforms decided in Cotonou during the last Summit, but also the development of an economic co-operation in the Francophony. Canada's contribution, represented by a joint venture between P.A. Management International (Canada) Inc and Gervais, Gagnon, Covington & associates Inc., was to offer technical assistance services in fields such as:
- Security (detection equipment's, cellular phones, etc.);
- Accreditation (computerised Information System with specific software);
- Conception and implementation of a Logistic Co-ordination Centre for the Summit;
- Health;
- Technical training of the Vietnamese personnel;
- Linguistic training for the Vietnamese support personnel.
The joint venture's functions were to manage the Canadian contribution and to deliver the goods and services which Canada had committed it self to. For the project, the principal responsibilities of the Consultants were the following:
- Insure the delivery and the constant co-ordination with the Canadian and Vietnamese authority throughout the preparation and organisation of the Summit;
- Buy the material and equipment's in accordance with the approved plan and currency (including the management and payment of the supplies and the control of the quality before and after the transportation);
- Help the co-ordination Comity to conceive and implement the Logistic Co-ordination Centre in order to insure the control and co-ordination of the organising activities and the management of the Summit;
- Insure the technical training of the personnel that will use the Canadian supplied material (security material - metal detectors, X-ray machinery, etc., accreditation - identity cards, etc., health - ambulances);
- Implementing in Hanoi, an Canadian project office for a period of several months.
