Singing MoU between CORENACCA and farmers’ union, Women’s Union of Nga Tan, Nga Thuy Communes of Nga Son District and Da Loc commune, Hau Loc District

On 19th November, 2018, CORENACCA signed MoU with Farmer’s Union, Women’s Union of Nga Tan, Nga Thuy Communes, Nga Son District and Da Loc Commune, Hau Loc District, Thanh Hoa Province. “Collaborative development of Natural Resource Management, Rural Development, Community Development” Projects.

At the signing MoU, representative of CORENACCA’s board of directors and leaders of the Farmers’ Union and Women’s Unions discussed and assessed the need to establish a strong coalition to cooperate in the call donors and direct implement the most effective programs and projects, especially in the field of community-based mangrove planting and management, to ensure the interests of the parties and the general interests of the government. Local people, especially the community, will be given practical, fair and suitable benefits to the needs of the communes. On the basis of the agreement on the urgency of the cooperative alliance, based on the functions, duties, capacities and needs of the parties, MOU was signed with the following contents:

i) Cooperate in the design and development of project proposals in the areas of strengths of the parties to seek funding;

ii) Co-operation in the implementation of projects by CORENACCA as the owner / contractor. Particularly, the projects related to the strengths of the Farmers’ Union and the Women’s Union in the fields of Community-Based Mangrove Planting and Management, Adaptive Livelihoods and Disaster Mitigation in the climate change;

iii) Cooperate to organize events, volunteer programs for the community, environmental protection, mangrove planting and protection, etc. MoU also regultated the responsibilities and interests of the parties, information, surveys, assessments, etc. to jointly develop CORENACCA proposals, develop proposals for project proposals in the areas of Community-Based Mangrove Planting and Management, Adaptive livelihoods and disaster preparedness mitigation, connectivity, finding potential funding sources to submit project proposals, etc.

The cooperation between CORENACCA and Farmer Uion and Women Union will open up opportunities for more favorable sources of funding, especially those related to natural resource management, adaptation to climate change, greed of the community. At the same time, overcoming a number of difficulties and shortcomings that many programs and projects have been or are being implemented in localities, such as capacity of organization and implementation of local officials, have not met the objectives. It is too dependent on the capacity of state agencies (which is usually the part-time scheme) while the project approach requires, especially the organizations will be empowered to directly manage and implement the programs and projects in the locality.

Hoang Van Tuan