National Targeted Programs Support Project

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The objective of the National Targeted Programs for New Rural Development and Sustainable Poverty Reduction Support Program (NTPSP) Program-for-Results Project for Vietnam is to improve the delivery of, and access to, investments for increasing agricultural production and enhancing livelihood opportunities within the Program area. For the last decade, Vietnam has experienced relatively strong economic growth, with GDP growing at an annual average of around 6.3 percent leading to Vietnam’s graduation into a middle-income country. High growth has been accompanied by rapid urbanization, a rising middle class together with improved access to social and economic benefits and services. The concentration of poverty in Vietnam in rural areas, among ethnic minorities and midland and mountainous areas partly reflect low access to economic opportunities due to low economic integration. Vietnam has achieved impressive gains in many dimensions of gender equality, but the situation for ethnic minority women remains a development challenge. The EM women overall have lower literacy and less working knowledge of Vietnamese language. The burden of low access to water, health services and roads as well as poor child nutrition, falls disproportionately on them as they are primarily responsible for collecting water and taking care of family health. Their active participation in prioritization of social-economic infrastructure and livelihoods options is central to improving their wellbeing. Environmental degradation coupled with vulnerability to the impact of extreme weather events and global climate change are major threats to the short, medium and long-term sustainability of the country’s development. The country is projected to be subjected to more heat stress as its mean temperature and the incidence of hot days are expected to further increase. Higher variability and risks in extreme precipitation as well as higher wind speeds are also projected, thereby increasing exposure and risk of typhoons and flooding in coastal and deltaic areas as well as flashfloods and mudslides in mountainous and hilly areas. Future sea level rise would also expose coastal areas to more storm surges. Nevertheless, these challenges, especially for rural areas, are well understood by the Government, as reflected in the recent Vietnam 2035 report jointly prepared with the World Bank Group. The government is committed to support not only initiatives towards climate resilient agriculture or environment-friendly agriculture and/or livelihoods but to also adapt rural infrastructure quality specifications to address climate variability issues.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Water Supply and Storage, Wind, Forest Products and Packaging, Raw Materials, Government