The information was announced on December 23 at a conference in the Northern province of Thai Nguyen to sum up the 2014-2017 United Nations Joint Program (UNJP) supporting the National Target Program on New Rural Development (NTP-NRD).

The UNJP armed at providing technical assistance for the NTP-NRD in order to develop potential of Vietnam’s rural areas and coordinating UN offices’ technical assistance for Vietnam’s new-style rural area building.

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Chicken farm in Minh Lap commune - a model new-style rural area in Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province 

It focused on intensifying technical transfer for the country’s agricultural production, improve the sector’s climate change response capacity, help mobilize social investment in developing rural areas through recommendations on rural financial policies, rural development strategies, labor market and education quality.

Chief Representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Vietnam Jong Ha Bae said that during 2014-2017, the UNJP contributed to raising rural residents’ awareness, improving public investment and policy and strategy building capacity in rural areas, and monitoring and assessing the implementation of the NTP-NRD.

The program helped increase monthly income of rural residents and make positive changes in rural development in Vietnam, he stated.

The NTP-NRD, approved in June 2010, listed 19 basic criteria, including infrastructure, education, health care and culture, as well as environment and employment, for recognition as a new-style rural area.

It targets 50 percent of communes recognized as new-style rural areas by 2020.

Source: VNA