Project launched in Hau Giang to improve adaptation to climate change
A project was launched March 28 on supporting livelihoods for local residents and improving climate change adaptation in the southern province of Hau Giang for the 2023-2025 period.
Hau Giang (VNA) – A project was launched March 28 on supporting livelihoods for local residentsand improving climate change adaptation in the southern province of HauGiang for the 2023-2025 period.
The launch ceremony was co-hosted by theprovincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the KoreaInternational Cooperation Agency in Vietnam (KOICA Vietnam) and the Republic ofKorea (RoK)’s Merry Year International (MYI) funding agencies.
Standing Vice Chairman of the provincialPeople's Committee Truong Canh Tuyen said the project aims to improve the materialand spiritual lives of households vulnerable to climate change, especially poor families living off agriculture, contributing to improving climate changeadaptation in the community for sustainable ecosystem conservation.
MYI Secretary General Kim Choo-in said MYI willwork with the department and the Can Tho University’s Faculty of RuralDevelopment to set up a climate risk assessment system, build more surfacewater salinity monitoring stations, and utilize information and communication technologyto improve remote management capabilities.
🐽 By 2025, five more surface water salinity monitoring stations and a managementsystem will be built for them, thus enhancing the capacity of responding towater management crises in Long My district.
MYI plans to launch various programmes,including basic economic and climate change adaptation education, and financialsupport projects in partnership with local authorities for beneficiaries. Thenon-Governmental project runs from 2022-2025 in Long My district at atotal cost of over 4.1 billion VND (178,000 VND)./.
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Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) 
