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With its diverse, yet complementary work areas, the project pursues an integrated approach to natural resource management. It specifically addresses provincial priorities of local economic development, such as the need for a more efficient and sustainable use of the endowment with natural resources in the fields of agriculture and forestry by farming households and producer groups in remote rural areas. In the mixed economy of these target groups, income increases from sustainable forestry are rather a longer term perspective, whereas increases from agriculture are limited by the availability of scarce arable land and the lack of knowledge and technologies to optimize production. The project therefore also addresses the need for a diversification of income sources by additional value-adding activities, namely by improved marketing and processing of primary products. The combined impact in these fields is expected to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods. The development, institutionalization and widespread application of participatory methods in all technical fields and in decentralized development planning are to include the target groups in a process of grassroots democracy and to improve their participation in the emerging market economy.
Project Profile
| Title |
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Central Vietnam (SMNR-CV) |
| Donor |
German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |
| Executing Agency |
Provincial People’s Committee (PPC), of Quang Binh, guided by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) |
| Technical Assistance |
GFA Consulting Group, on behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) |
| Duration |
6 years: 04. 2004 - 03.2010
Phase I: 04. 2004 - 03.2007
Phase II: 04.2007 – 03. 2010 |
| Project Region |
Quang Binh Province (implementation area) |
| Finance |
Total equivalent of about 4.0 million EURO, of which about 3.5 million Euro contribution from Germany |
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Binding Reference System
Project Objective
The stakeholders in the project region manage their natural resources in a sustainable way.
Indicators:
- Until 12/2009, participatory methods for socio-economic development planning (SEDP) and for agricultural extension (PAEM) are officially recognized by provincial guidelines and applied in all rural communes and districts in the core province of Quang Binh.
- In the project area, the additional net income of households and small enterprises involved in the promotion of value chains increases by at least 10% annually.
- In Quang Binh, improved provincial guidelines are issued on forest protection (until 12/2007), on forest land allocation (until 06/2008) and on community forestry (until 06/2009), and are applied in all rural districts by the relevant stakeholders in the protection and sustainable management of forest resources.
- In the pilot communes supported by the project, the percentage of households below the poverty line decreases annually by at least 4.5% (referring to data of DOLISA according to new poverty definition of 2006).
Target Groups
Poor rural population in project area, private households, producer groups and associations, small rural enterprises
Intermediaries
Village Management Boards, Commune People’s Committees, Women’s and Farmer’s Unions, District People’s Committees and district sections (Planning, Economics, Agriculture Extension, Environment), Forest Protection (district and province), Provincial People’s Committee and provincial departments DPI, DARD and sub-departments FPD PAFEC
More detailed information on the project concept can be found in the technical proposal for the German contribution and in the Vietnamese project document, namely on aspects of
- Analysis of major problems before intervention
- Context of German and Vietnamese development strategies
- Cooperation with other donor-supported projects
- Initial methodological approach
- Expected impacts
- Risk assessment
- Estimated costs
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