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UN programme supports new-style rural area building in Vietnam

Vietnam has to date had 2,884 communes, or 32.3 percent of the total, recognised as new-style rural areas.
UN programme supports new-style rural area building in Vietnam ảnh 1Chicken farm in Minh Lap commune - a model new-style rural area in Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province (Source: VNA)

Thai Nguyen (VNA) – Vietnam has to date had 2,884 communes, or32.3 percent of the total, recognised as new-style rural areas.

The information was announced on December 23 at a conferencein the northern province of Thai Nguyen to sum up the 2014-2017 United NationsJoint Programme (UNJP) supporting the National Target Programme on New RuralDevelopment (NTP-NRD).

The UNJP armed at providing technical assistance for theNTP-NRD in order to develop potential of Vietnam’s rural areas and coordinatingUN offices’ technical assistance for Vietnam’s new-style rural area building.

It focused on intensifying technology transfer for thecountry’s agricultural production, improve the sector’s climate change responsecapacity, help mobilise social investment in developing rural areas throughrecommendations on rural financial policies, rural development strategies,labour market and education quality.

Chief Representative of the UN Food and AgricultureOriganisation in Vietnam Jong Ha Bae said that during 2014-2017, the UNJPcontributed to raising rural residents’ awareness, improving public investmentand policy and strategy building capacity in rural areas, and monitoring and assessingthe implementation of the NTP-NRD.

The programme helped increase monthly income of ruralresidents and make positive changes in rural development in Vietnam, he stated.

The NTP-NRD, approved in June 2010, listed 19 basiccriteria, including infrastructure, education, health care and culture, as wellas environment and employment, for recognition as a new-style rural area.

It targets 50 percent of communes recognised as new-style ruralareas by 2020.-VNA
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