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| Rice dries up due to drought (Photo: VNA) |
The sum will be allocated to a
project named “Strengthening the resilience of smallholder agriculture to
climate change-induced water insecurity in the Central Highlands and
south-central coast regions of Vietnam” (SACCR).
The project will be carried out by the MARD with the support of the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in six years, benefiting over 222,400
residents, or 10 percent of the population in the provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong,
Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan, especially women and ethnic people.
It is designed to modernise irrigational systems, improve water security and
livelihoods, provide knowledge in climate risk and climate resilience
agriculture, and strengthen access to agro-climate information, credit and
markets.
In addition, the project is expected to assist more than 335,000 indirect
beneficiaries through training courses and technical assistance, access to
climate risk information and best practices of smart agriculture aligned with
climate change.
The non-refundable aid aims to supplement and foster an investment of the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) in modern irrigational systems in drought-hit provinces
in Vietnam, ensuring benefits of the poor and most vulnerable people, said
Caitlin Wiesen, UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam.
It also adds up to efforts of the Vietnamese Government to bolster resilience of
vulnerable coastal communities to climate change-related impacts, with an
ongoing project funded by the GCF since 2017./.
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