Overall objectives

To improve environmental sustainability and social inclusion and resilience of food production models and supply chains in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

Specific objectives

1) Enhance ecosystems, including reducing loss and degradation of natural forests, protecting biodiversity, restoring priority ecosystems, reducing GHG emissions.

2) Improve livelihoods, through inclusion of vulnerable groups including ethnic minorities and women in agriculture, forest-farming and ecotourism value chains.

3) Sustain food production and improve quality, through improved farming practices, better organization of producers, and transparent and shortened supply chains.

Expected results

1) Effective governance systems including integrated land use planning and management tools and processes are established at district and provincial levels.

2) Sustainable, climate-smart, productive standardized practices are implemented for agriculture and non-timber forest products and services.

3) The financial environment is enhanced with innovative mechanisms, increased funding and thriving partnerships to support transformation towards sustainable landscapes, with emphasis at provincial and district levels.

4) Sustainability and scaling up are ensured through robust coordination, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge production and dissemination, and active advocacy at regional and national levels.

Total budget (EUR)

5,000,000

EU contribution (EUR)

5,000,000

Duration

2022 - 2026

Implementing organisation

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Vietnam

Funding instrument

DCI-Thematic

Benefitting zone

Vietnam (Lam Dong and Dak Nong provinces)

Reference

https://www.undp.org/vietnam/projects/integrated-sustainable-landscape-management-through-deforestation-free-jurisdiction-project-lam-dong-and-dak-nong-viet-nam