Projects run by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the northernprovince of Thai Nguyen are making active contributions to localsocio-economic development, especially poverty reduction efforts.

So far, the province has granted 72 operatational licences to NGOs,of which 29 are still valid, as heard at a working session between localauthorities and a delegation of the Committee for Foreign NGO Affairson July 20.

Thai Nguyen is carrying out the national programme on promoting aid from NGOs between 2013 and 2017.

In the first two years of implementing the programme, the provinceenabled NGOs to tour and build plans to activate a number of projects onclean water supplies, environmental sanitation and solid wastemanagement.

The EAST Vietnam, an NGO forinternational solidarity, is implementing a waste treatment project inthe Ky Phu and Van Tho communes of Dai Tu district while the US-basedOxfam is running a project to empower small-scale Vietnamese farmers.

Local authorities called for more assistance fromthe Government’s ministries, departments and sectors to support NGOactivities, particularly in education, health, rural development andclimate change adaptation.

On the occasion, thedelegation led by Deputy Head of the People’s Aid Coordinating CommitteeNguyen Trung Dung scrutinised the implementation of NGO projects in theprovince.-VNA