Ngan Son district Project – Phase 2

Target Groups

Direct beneficiaries:

• 4,893 direct beneficiaries, including 2,516 women, consisting of residents from 20 villages across the four project communes (Coc Dan, Thuong An, Thuong Quan, Bang Van), as well as local government officials participating in the project’s training, monitoring, and evaluation activities.

Indirect beneficiaries:

• 6,583 indirect beneficiaries, including 3,169 women, who are residents of the remaining villages in the four project communes.

 

Project Goal:

Sustainable development in ethnic minority areas of Bac Kan Province has been strengthened.

Project Objective:

Objective 1:

Self-management capacity of local community is strengthened improving living conditions for targeted ethnic communities through Community Management application.

Objective 2:

Economic value of local agricultural products is increased.

Indicators of the objective:

Indicator 1.1:

By the end of the project, 80 small-scale self-managed projects improving living conditions are successfully self-managed by communities directly concerned (self-managed in terms of planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating; a project is considered successfully managed when its objective is achieved).

Indicator 1.2:

By the end of the project, Community-based Groups (CBGs) focusing on livelihood development generate a 20% increased average income for 200 member households.

Indicator 1.3:

60% of community-based groups leaders are women.

Indicator 2.1:

By the end of the project, 02 local agriculture products are processed by CBGs focusing on livelihood/Cooperative Groups (CGs) for higher income.

Main project activities

1. A district‑level project introductory workshop to introduce the main project components, the community management (CM) approach, and to establish the Project Management Unit.
2. Village‑level meetings to introduce the project and elect key community members (at least 50% women).
3. Village meetings to develop community profiles and identify priority solutions.
4. Approval of sub‑projects: Community-based groups (CBGs) will submit initiatives in the form of small‑scale sub-projects addressing selected issues (infrastructure and production development). These proposals will be approved at commune meetings based on urgency, target beneficiaries, required financial support, and gender sensitivity.
5. Implementation of 80 small‑scale sub-projects by CBGs applying the CM approach. Women will be encouraged and supported to take leadership roles within the CBGs.
6. Dialogues between local people and authorities.
7. Village thematic meetings on gender equality, non-chemical agriculture, waste reduction and management, etc.
8. Two‑day training courses for key community members on topics related to the CM approach.
9. Village meetings in the 20 project villages to establish or review livelihood development CCGs with at least 100 members, promoting non-chemical agricultural production and identifying potential livelihood models.
10. Technical training for members of livelihood development CBGs on group management and operation, bookkeeping, business planning, marketing, etc., along with training on non-chemical farming techniques.
11. Study tours to neighboring provinces to learn from successful sustainable agriculture models, followed by village meetings to share reflections from the study tours.
12. Model village meetings (for new villages) to evaluate the results of small‑scale sub-projects.
13. Communal level sharing meetings to share good practices and promote peer learning among project villages.
14. Surveys to identify potential products for processing; market research and product development in the four project communes with support from an external expert.
15. Support for implementing four self‑managed product‑processing sub-projects applying the CM approach. Local farmers with potential to process a common agricultural product will voluntarily form a CBG.

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