The Danish Government will provide 1.46 million Danish Koruna (267,000 USD) to carry our an environmental programme in the central province of Quang Nam.
Document to this effect was signed between the provincial People’s Committee and the Danish Embassy in Vietnam on Oct. 5.
The programme will help raise the local experts’ capability in making plan on sustainable development in developing local socio-economic plan. On Oct. 4, a 15.4 million USD project to improve urban environment in the central province of Quang Ngai was launched in Tu Nghia district.
The project is part of a 96 million USD scheme to improve urban environment of the central region, which targets six coastal townships: Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Dong Ha, Lang Co, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai. It aims to raise the people’s awareness on hygiene, upgrade drainage system and control floods and manage waste water and solid waste.
The project, which is partly funded by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) and the French Development Agency (AFD), will be completed by the end of 2009.