Being concerned by the committees and
authorities, the implementation of foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in
recent years has made many positive changes, making important contributions to
socio-economic development, political stability, and improving the locals' material and spiritual life,
especially the ones in the border areas. The province has paid special
attention to cooperation and establishment of regular relationships with FNGOs in
order to implement projects effectively.
Conference on promotion of
the cooperation between Cao Bang
province and foreign NGOs
In the period 2015-2020, the number of
organizations operating in the province remained stable from 18 to 21 with an
annual aid budget of 2 to 3 million USD. During this period, particularly, the
province signed cooperation agreements with donors including "Cooperation
Agreement with ActionAid International Vietnam for 2016-2020 period",
"Cooperation Agreement with Global Civic Sharing (GCS/Korea) to implement Cao
Bang Hope Village project in the period of 2016-2019", "The 2017-2020
tripartite cooperation Agreement among Cao Bang People's Committee, ActionAid
International Vietnam and Aid for social protection program Foundation Vietnam
(AFV)", "Cooperation agreement with ChildFund Vietnam in the
2019-2029 period".
The agreements, programs/projects that have been
implemented mainly focus on a number of specific fields as follows:
Regarding the areas of Agriculture, Forestry and
Rural Development in association with poverty reduction to increase income for
the locals: During the period,
there were 35 programs and projects implemented and funded by foreign NGOs. As
a result, 9,600 households in the project area applied advancement of
technology in agriculture; 7,000 turns of people participated in training
courses, seminars and livelihood improvement models from planting elephant
grass, rice, corn, passion fruit, peanuts, ginger, turmeric, etc; the people in
the project area were also supported to plant 90 hectares of forest; 840 poor
households were supported to breed buffaloes, reproductive cows, goats, sows,
backyard chickens, etc.
Regarding the areas of Health, Education and
Vocational Training, Culture and Tourism: the focus is mainly on strengthening access to health
services and raising awareness of prevention and control of infectious diseases
as well as reproductive health care and public health for people. 52 doctors of
the province attended the training course directly taught by American doctors;
4 doctors attended training in the US; the province was supported to build 06 national-standard
health stations; Cao Bang General Hospital and 13 health stations in the
province have been equipped with modern equipment which is worth tens of
billion.
Childfun Vietnam in Cao Bang hands over the COVID-19 medical supplies to Quang Hoa district
Up to now, there have been 25 investment programs
and projects for education implemented in the province, focusing mainly on
improving skills for teachers and students, supporting facilities and materials
for teaching and learning and granting scholarships to disadvantaged students.
In addition, many vocational training projects for the locals have been
implemented with the aims to maintain the development of traditional products
and craft villages, helping the locals gain more skills and increase their
income.
In the period, 04 programs and projects of Culture
and Tourism were supported to deploy, contributing to preserving and promoting
the traditional cultural identity as well as integrating these types of culture
with community-based tourism activities. Every year, more than 200 volunteers
and tourists introduced by non-governmental organizations come to both travel
and support the locals in relocating their livestock breeding facilities, floor
screeding, building water tanks and toilets, etc; supporting and promoting
groups of women who make brocade products in Na Kieng (Bao Lam), Khuoi Khon
(Bao Lac), Hoa Tham (Nguyen Binh), Phuc Sen (Quang Uyen). The groups have
produced more than 1,500 products with a total income of about 70 million per
year.
Regarding the areas of natural resources,
environment and clean water: There
were 21 implemented programs and projects that have contributed to raising the
awareness of environmental protection and clean water use; more than 255
communication on clean water and environmental sanitation were held with more
than 5,750 participants; 15 daily-life water supply works have been newly built
and repaired to ensure the water supply for over 2,700 households; about 1330
households were supported to build water tanks.
Regarding the areas of solving social issues and
emergency aid: foreign
non-governmental organizations have implemented 28 programs and projects, including
activities to support HIV/AIDS and domestic violence prevention, Child
Participation and Child Protection, children and people with disabilities, promotion
of women's rights, education to raise the awareness of parents' responsibility
for equal treatment with their children, trafficking in women and children
prevention, and the propaganda of publics not to commit crimes and social evils.
In addition to the above-mentioned areas, in the
2015-2020 period, there has been 08 programs and projects in other typical
areas such as "Supporting civil society to empower rural communities in
Thong Nong district", "Enhancing access to information for ethnic
minority women in Cao Bang" in Nguyen Binh district; "Enhancing
voices through the operation of effective networks" in Bao Lac district,
etc.
Projects / programs implemented by foreign
non-governmental organizations have had practical and positive impacts and motivated
to contribute to sustainable socio-economic development, poverty reduction, improving
the material and spiritual life of beneficiaries in the project area. Helping the
public, especially the ones belonging to ethnic minorities, better understand
the policies and guidelines of the Party and the State, raising people's trust
in the government and more actively engaging in socio-economic development
activities in the locality.