The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will help the central province of Ninh Thuan fight and adapt to natural disasters with a focus on children amid climate change. A local law enforcement officer saves a child in a flood The project, jointly launched by the UNICEF and the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at a ceremony in Phan Rang – Thap Chap city on February 1, is being carried out from 2017 – 2021. In order to help the locality implement successfully its plan on coping with natural disasters and adapting to climate change, thus contributing to mitigate vulnerability and disaster risks among children equally, UNICEF, the Ministry, the Embassy of Japan in Vietnam, and Ninh Thuan have worked together to define contents in the cooperation programme between the locality and UNICEF. The province has established a project management board and approved a plan for implementing the project during 2017-2018. The project, once completed in 2021, is expected to help enhance the capacity of the locality, its community, including children, to adapt to natural disasters and climate change, and ensure effective disaster risks-integrated planning. Le Van Binh, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, who is also head of the project management board, stressed the need for comprehensive collaboration among sectors, agencies, organisations and People’s Committees at different levels in implementing the project, while integrating it with other local projects and programmes. He also called on the General Department of… [Read full story]
At theworking session with the provincial authorities, the official spokehighly of Ninh Thuan’s achievements in developing a socio-economicnetwork, especially in mother and child healthcare. UNICEF hopes the province pays more attention to providing fresh waterand nutrition for children and the development of bilingual educationfor Cham and Raglai ethnic children, she said. Lotta Sylwander expressed her belief that the province will besuccessful in several aspects it has committed, especially thoserelating to children. Deputy Chairman of thePeople’s Committee Vo Dai recognised UNICEF’s support in general, andLotta Sylwander’s devotion to Ninh Thuan province in particular. Dai informed his guest that the province approved…... [read more]
At a February 13 working session with provincial leaders, Ms Sylwander said UNICEF intends to focus on bilingual education, safe water supplies, nutrition, and maternal and child healthcare. (VOV) - Chief UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Lotta Sylwander has promised Ninh Thuan leaders the UN Children's Fund will dedicate greater attention to helping the southern province's disadvantaged children. Ms Sylwander praised NinhThuan's socio-economic development and modern child and maternal healthcare. She asked the province to support the development of clean water infrastructure and the provision of bilingual education to Cham and Raglai people. Provincial People's Committee Vice President Vo Dai expressed…... [read more]
Through the close cooperation and support between the U.S. Embassy, U.S. Pacific Command, and the Ninh Thuan People’s Committee, this new center will help provincial authorities direct evacuations of people from vulnerable homes, stockpile emergency relief supplies, and respond in the aftermath of storms by deploying and communicating with first responders in the hardest-hit areas. The Disaster Management Coordination Center also serves as a safe shelter from which coordinators and workers can effectively manage and coordinate relief efforts. “While we cannot control Mother Nature, the United States and Vietnam are working together to better predict, prepare, respond to, and recover…... [read more]
Four international organisations have pledged to provide around US$1.5 million to south-central coastal Ninh Thuan province to help reduce poverty in the locality from now until 2010. The donation was announced at a conference held in Hanoi on June 12 to boost cooperation between Ninh Thuan and foreign organisations and NGOs. The sum will come from Oxfam, UK Action Aid, the Counterpart International of the US and the United Nations' Population Fund (UNPFA). Addressing the conference, the Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee Chairwoman Hoang Thi Ut Lan said the province had received US$4.1 million in aid from NGOs of the…... [read more]
Nhan Dan/VNA - The south-central coastal province of Ninh Thuan must pay special attention to maintaining political security and social order and safety in close association with safeguarding the national sovereignty over the sea and islands, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has said. Speaking at a meeting with key Ninh Thuan officials on July 5 during his working tour of the province, the Party leader said the provincial Party committee needs to continue renovating its way of thinking, focusing on the strengthening of internal solidarity, making full use of support from the central Government, and attaching importance to the…... [read more]
