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Title: LIVELIHOODS WORKSHOP: SECOND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT


1
LIVELIHOODS WORKSHOPSECOND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS
POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT
  • Hanoi Workshop, November 11 2011

2
PROJECT OVERALL
  • World Bank (IDA) finances 150 million. Total
    165 million. 2010 to 2015
  • CDD approach
  • Invests in
  • Productive infrastructure
  • Capacity of local government and communities and
  • Market links and business innovations
  • 230 communes, 27 districts in 6 Provinces
    670,000 people, mostly poor
  • Ethnic minorities dominate the population

3
LIVELIHOODS OVERALL
  • Resource based Market led. Bringing producers
    and buyers together
  • Livelihoods subcomponents about 35 million
  • 1.2 Market links and business innovations
  • 2.2 Livelihoods support and production services
  • 2.3 Womens social and economic development
  • 3.4 Employment skills
  • Partnerships and Innovation awards
  • Pilot Phase 18 months, ends December

4
PILOT PHASE INCOME EARNING SUB-PROJECTS
  • 6 Essential Principles
  • All proposals from villagers
  • Technically feasible for the poor
  • Fits interest and resources of poor
  • Markets can absorb
  • Profitable and sustainable
  • No negative impacts

5
PILOT PHASE GUIDELINES
  • Sub projects
  • Planning and implementation
  • Identify potential, meetings, CIG formation,
    appraisal and approval, procurement
  • Regulations and Detailed Proposals
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Reporting

6
PILOT PHASE SUB PROJECTS
  • Identified from bottom-up
  • Crops artichoke tea, son tra apples, coffee
    nursery, rattan, ginger
  • Livestock local pigs, local chickens, buffaloes,
    goats,
  • Fisheries eel-raising
  • Handicrafts embroidery, etc

7
Artichoke Tea
8
Son Tra Apples
9
Coffee
10
Rattan
11
Black Bone Chicken
12
Goats
13
Local Pig
14
Handicrafts trading Sa Pa and Trade Fair in Hanoi
15
Sapa Weaving Ta Phin
16
Sapa Homestay, Herbal Bath Ta Phin
17
PILOT PHASE SUB PROJECTS
  • Need top down information as well
  • GRET report (5 provinces), JICA report (4
    provinces), Baseline study
  • Maps at commune level and district level
  • Team work in districts and communes identify
    potential activities
  • NGO, Donor projects in each district
  • Other e.g. work skills, study tours
  • Internet resources

18
NGOs DONORS
  • Examples
  • NGO Centre, Ethnic Minorities WG
  • CARE/CDC/SIEED DIEN BIEN
  • ACIAR HOA BINH, LAI CHAU,LAO CAI, YEN BAI, SON
    LA, DIEN BIEN
  • JICA HOA BINH, LAI CHAU, SON LA, DIEN BIEN
  • Other projects .

19
LEARNING FROM NGOS AND DONORS
  • Staff and villagers can benefit from
    understanding
  • Methods of working in villages
  • Livelihoods models
  • Input supplies, marketing
  • Training opportunities
  • Studies value chains, etc

20
MOVING AHEAD THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
  • Priorities of target groups poor communities in
    ethnic minority areas
  • Improving livelihoods
  • Reaching the poor is difficult
  • Overseas experience shows partnerships improve
    CDD project success
  • GUIDELINES ON PARTNERSHIPS

21
POTENTIAL PARTNERS
  • Other Public Agencies
  • Private Firms
  • NGOs and Donors
  • Banks
  • Training Colleges and Universities
  • Research Institutes and Donors
  • Trade Groups, Cooperatives, Others

22
PARTNERSHIP ISSUES
  • Willingness to cooperate
  • Focus on the priorities of ethnic minorities
  • Identify key partners and work with them
  • Involve the expertise of others
  • Use available information and share it with poor
    communities
  • Follow procurement procedures

23
Example PARTNERSHIPS with COMPANIES
  • Identify sites and suitable companies
  • Farming Cultivation, Livestock, Fisheries
  • Non- farming Traditional or high value
    activities handicrafts, tailoring, processing
  • Bring together companies, districts communes
  • Define Roles of CIG and companies
  • Project support for CIGs, companies
  • Develop Proposal and Contract
  • Implement, monitor, report, evaluate

24
INNOVATION GRANTS
  • BACKGROUND
  • Project encourages innovation
  • Especially for Livelihoods subcomponents 1,2,
    2,2, 2.3, 3.4
  • RATIONALE
  • Innovation is needed for progress
  • Definition a livelihood innovation if it
    involves the creation of a new product, it brings
    to the market a product that has never been sold
    before or brings a product to a new market, it
    involves a new production technology (or
    technique), it involves a new method of marketing
    or distribution, or it creates a partnership
    among groups/entities that have not partnered
    before

25
TRIAL PHASE 2012
  • Theme making agriculture more profitable for
    poor smallholders New ideas, new processes or
    new opportunities for farmers to improve
    profitability are encouraged
  • May include (i) new information (ii) new access
    to capital (iii) partnership with an NGO or
    other (iv) links with a company that supplies
    inputs and also buys produce
  • Also encouraged Studies of rural value chains,
    profitability and sustainability. New ways to
    improve capacity for ethnic minorities
  • Limits Institutions USD 10,000, Community based
    USD5,000, Individuals USD1,000
  • Deadline Applications by 31 March 2012
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