DPM Hai kicks off Northern Mountains Urban Programs

January 22, 2015 | 13:55

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Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai on January 21 attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of the Northern Mountains Urban Program Project in Thai Nguyen Province.

Photo: VGP/Nguyen Linh

The Deputy PM stressed the meaning of the project in Thai Nguyen Province in particular and in the Northern mountainous areas in general.

The project is expected to improve urban infrastructure, environmental sanitation and local people’s livelihood, contribute to enhancing the capacity of urban management as well as creating forces for sustainable socio-economic development.

He thanked the World Bank for its support and cooperation to realize the project.

Speaking at the event, WB Country Director Victoria Kwakwa said that the implementation and experience drawn from the project will form a technical investment support model in combination with improving urban management capacity that could be applied for other cities and provinces in Viet Nam.

The Northern Mountains Urban Program Project will be implemented in seven urban areas in the provinces of Bac Kan, Cao Bang, Dien Bien, Hoa Binh, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang, Yen Bai and Thai Nguyen.

Proposed and financed by the WB, the project sets two goals of meeting demands for upgrading and developing urban areas for cities in the Northern mountains and connecting urban infrastructure investment with enhancement and activation of local capacity to increase the effectiveness and impacts of the development projects.

The project is worth US$301.856 million, including US$250 million in the Official Development Assistance and US$51.856 million in corresponding capital.

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