The Mekong Delta Integrated Climate Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Project supports better climate-smart planning and improved climate resilience of land and water management practices. Photo credit: AFPVietnam’s central bank and the World Bank on Monday signed agreements for loans and credits worth US$560 million for two projects to support urban development, climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods in the Mekong Delta. Under the project, management systems will also be built to improve spatial planning, data and information management and public financial management. A boy holding his brother walks on a drought-hit rice field in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on March 2, 2016. It will benefit farmers in the upper delta provinces and aquaculture farm and fisher-folk households along the coastal provinces in the region.

Source: Thanhnien News July 11, 2016 12:00 UTC