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Project boosts engagement for Ha Long Bay’s sustainable development

Project boosts local engagement for Ha Long Bay’s sustainable development

A project promoting local engagement for sustainable development of Ha Long Bay has borne fruit after three years of implementation, heard a meeting in northern Quang Ninh province on May 30.
Project boosts local engagement for Ha Long Bay’s sustainable development ảnh 1The meeting on May 30 reviews the Ha Long – Cat Ba Alliance: Local Engagement for Sustainable Development project (Photo: VNA)

QuangNinh (VNA) – A project promoting local engagement for sustainabledevelopment of Ha Long Bay has borne fruit after three years of implementation,heard a meeting in northern Quang Ninh province on May 30.

The event reviewing the Ha Long – Cat BaAlliance: Local Engagement for Sustainable Development project was held by the QuangNinh provincial People’s Committee and the Centre for Marinelife Conservationand Community Development (MCD).

MCD Director Nguyen Thu Hue said Ha Long – CatBa Alliance is a public-private cooperation initiative funded by the US. Theproject aims to build a partnership between the Government, businesses andlocal authorities to promote the conservation and protection of Ha Long Bay andnearby Cat Ba archipelago of Hai Phong city, thus ensuring sustainabledevelopment.

Beginning in 2014, the project has supported theaquaculture association in Ha Long Bay with heritage preservation activitieswhile building sustainable aquaculture. It has also stepped up communicationsto encourage inter-sectoral cooperation and relevant parties’ participation,and enhanced their capacity in project implementation and supervision, sheadded.

Vice Chairman of the Quang Ninh provincialPeople’s Committee Dang Huy Hau, head of the project coordinating board, saidthe conservation and sustainable development of Ha Long Bay is a continuous, long-termprocess that requires multilateral cooperation.

This type of cooperation will ensure betterdecision making since it gathers multiple viewpoints, builds trust throughrespecting each member’s contribution, ensures benefits for all sides and formspartnerships to create unanimity among them.

It will create a foundation for improvedmanagement of natural heritage sites like Ha Long Bay, he added.

Ha Long Bay was recognised as a world naturalheritage site by UNESCO in 1994 (for landscape values) and 2000 (for geologicaland geomorphological values). Quang Ninh is preparing to submit a dossier toUNESCO to seek a third recognition of Ha Long Bay, associated with Cat Ba, as aworld natural heritage site in terms of archeological values.-VNA
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