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AusAID supports Tieng Giang in climate change resilience

Recently, the Australian Agency for International Development and Oxfam provided a fund of over 18 billion VND to coastal communities in the districts of Go Cong Tay and Tan Phu Dong (Tien Giang province) in an effort to raise the capacity to respond to climate change.

Beside material support, the project aims to learn the lesson from project implementation and further help coastal communities of Tien Giang province to increase the resilience and mitigation in disaster risk, implement community-based policies of natural resource management in Tien Giang.

The project is set to last for 2 years from September 2012 to December 2014. It is expected to support directly nearly 1000 households by financial aid and more than 10,000 households in the province Nearly 1000 households are expected to directly receive financial aid while more than 10,000 households are expected to indirectly receive support by activities of media campaign, consultancy, training and job generation.

The beneficiaries of the project consist of poor households with limited or without agricultural land, poor women as household heads, households with handicapped member, provincial people and authorities in need of enhanced capacities and knowledge of devising climate change resilience and disaster risk reduction plan.

Under the framework of the project, the Management Board has set up 36 teams of farmers, conducted a market research to support poor labors and suggested new models of livelihoods and household-based business to beneficiaries.

P.Oanh