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CARE International helps ethnic minorities in Ha Giang

The People’s Committee of northern mountainous Ha Giang province and CARE International in Vietnam signed a framework cooperation agreement for the 2021-2026 period on March 24
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Ha Giang (VNA) – The People’s Committee of northern mountainousHa Giang province and CARE International in Vietnam signed a frameworkcooperation agreement for the 2021-2026 period on March 24.

The agreement is expected to lay a foundation for thedevelopment of community projects regarding agriculture livelihoods, climate changeresponse, gender equality enhancement, economic empowerment for women, marketand value chain connectivity.

CARE pledged to launch a project to improve economic position offemale ethnic minorities in Vietnam in six communes in the province's Quang Binh district at a total cost of 23 billion VND (1 million USD).

Accordingly, the provincial Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment and the People’s Committee of Quang Binh district will be responsiblefor implementing the project.

Its major components include improving the possibility ofseeking income for poor ethnic minority women via agriculture andnon-agriculture production, assisting them in saving and borrowing capital foreconomic development, improving business capacity of women-led businesses andcooperatives, offering support to those in remote and mountainous areas whohave limited access to modern technology and lack land for production.

The provincial Women’s Union and relevant units will offer technicaland human resources support for the project.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Permanent Vice Chairman of theprovincial People’s Committee Hoang Gia Long wished that CARE Internationalwould continue expanding projects related to economic value chains underway inHa Giang to help improve income for ethnic minorities.

He also committed all possible support to CARE International to effectivelycarry out the project.

Country Director of the CARE International in Vietnam Le KimDung said founded in 1945, CARE has partnered with international organisationsand Vietnam since 1989 with over 300 projects.

From 2017 to 2020, it carried out two projects in Ha Giang,including one to improve partnership for fair and comprehensive development ofethnic minority communities and another to comprehensively promote finance forfemale ethnic minorities, at a total cost of 7.7 billion VND (333,315 USD).

Nearly 170,000 local households have received support in housingand production land for economic development. The rate of poor households was brought down to 22.29 percent last year from 43.6 percent in 2015./.

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