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Mekong Delta provinces ensure schedule of climate change projects

The Mekong Delta provinces of Tra Vinh and Ben Tre have worked to ensure the implementation of a project on climate change adaption.
Mekong Delta provinces ensure schedule of climate change projects ảnh 1Drought in the Mekong Delta (Photo VNA)

Tra Vinh (VNA) – The Mekong Deltaprovinces of Tra Vinh and Ben Tre have worked to ensure the implementation of aproject on climate change adaption.

Country Director of the International Fund forAgricultural Development (IFAD) in Vietnam Thomas Rath expressed his pleasureat the positive outcomes of the project at a meeting with local authorities inTra Vinh on November 17.

He said the the two provinces should speed upthe project by focusing on improving community-based adaptation capacity in thelong run and increasing quality of agricultural and aquaculture practices.

Tra Vinh and Ben Tre should enhance experienceexchanges to expand effective models while strengthening coordination withspecialised institutions such as the provincial Department of Science andTechnology, Department of Industry and Trade, Department of Environment andNatural Resources, and the private economic sector, to implement livelihoodmodels.

Cornels Hubrencht Blok, a delegate from theIFAD, said that during the implementation of the project, the two provinceshave integrated climate change adaptation and natural disaster risk managementinto socio-economic development plans. However, the solutions are just appliedin the short run, he said, advising the pair to build future scenarios.

Vice Chairman of the Ben Tre People’s CommitteeNguyen Huu Lap and his counterpart from Tra Vinh Kim Ngoc Thai, pledged tocreate the best conditions and arrange capital to support the project.

Sponsored by the IFAD, the project is being carriedout from 2014 to 2020 in 30 communes of eight districts in Ben Tre and 30communes of seven districts in Tra Vinh.

The project worth more than 1 trillion VND (44million USD) aims to support sustainable livelihoods for the rural poor and tostrengthen the adaptive capacity of target communities and institutions tobetter contend with climate change.-VNA
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