*** Prosperity Initiative is a non-profit company registered in the UK and working in Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia. We work with a wide variety of partners from the public, private and development sectors to identify and develop market sectors that benefit the poor. Our flagship programe is in the bamboo sector where we have seen very strong potential for poverty impact and have experienced some initial successes in our work. We are now looking at other sectors – tea, tourism, biofuels, etc. - and hope to replicate our experiences in bamboo for large scale poverty reduction across the region. We are a new organization, formerly a collaborative project between Oxfam Hong Kong and IFC (a part of the World Bank) and we continue to work through Oxfam Hong Kong in Vietnam. Our staff are both Vietnamese and international and come from a wide range of backgrounds in both the development and private sectors.