Sweden has also managed long term projects on capacity building and institutional strengthening in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In many cases, DANIDA’s work on chemicals is part of a broader collaborative effort on environmental quality. The Danish government believes that the challenge facing the government of Vietnam is to bring “pollution under control and restore environmental quality without undermining economic growth or its development and poverty reduction strategy. Individual DANIDA-funded environmental projects will now be incorporated within this program, which commits approximately $42 million to the program for the period 2005 to 2010.