Thursday, April 28, 2011

Spain assists Quang Nam in socioeconomic development

28 Apr, 2011
Source: VOV

Spain’s Peace and Development (PyD) organisation has helped the central province of Quang Nam carry out a project on socioeconomic development combined with gender issues.

A cooperation document to this effect was signed between the Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee and PyD in Quang Nam province on April 27.

The 3.6 million EUR, which also covers Cambodia and East Timor, was designed to ensure the implementation of socioeconomic rights and poverty reduction through a gender approach and improvement of social equality.

It aims to improve the living conditions of project beneficiaries, with a focus on the most disadvantaged, through economic initiatives in combination with the gender issue.

The project also encourages the involvement of the beneficiaries and relevant agencies and branches in sustainable rural development and promotes initiatives on gender fairness, gender equality and domestic violence reduction.

It is focused on promoting socioeconomic development in rural areas, supporting for development of traditional trades, helping increase incomes, reducing domestic violence and raising women’s role in the society, said Tran Minh Ca, Deputy Chairman of the Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee.

The project will be carried out till 2014 in 10 communes of Duy Xuyen, Hiep Duc and Phuoc Son districts pf the province.

Established in 1991, PyD is a non-governmental organisation. It has helped carry out a five-year project on enhancement of capacity and promotion of economic, microcredit opportunities and gender equality plans in Vietnam since 2006.

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