(HBO) - Aide et Action Vietnam, in collaboration with the Northwest Cooperation and Development Centre (NWD) and local partners, on March 14 organised a workshop to share outcomes and experience drawn from the project "Increasing access to livelihood opportunities for ethnic minority young people through the promotion of career development entrepreneurship initiatives", which is funded by the European Union.
Participants look at products by students and young people who took part in the project’s vocational training programmes.
The project has been carried out in Hoa Binh and Lao Cai provinces for three years, from 2020 to 2023. It aims to support ethnic minority young people (aged 16-30) to improve their incomes through promoting career development and start-up initiatives.
The project's activities cover career orientation, vocational training and starting business for ethnic minority young people. Accordingly, over 3,400 students at high schools and continuing education centres receive guidance through career orientation lessons and job fairs after three years of implementation.
It facilitates access to livelihood opportunities through vocational training classes and business connection activities for more than 1,200 ethnic minority young people as well as supports the development of business ideas and training to improve business management skills for more than 110 young entrepreneurs.
This year, the project continues to encourage sustainable job creation; training to enhance capacity for teachers and students as well as linkage with businesses to help young people start business and connect with business networks to expand their business models.
Participants at the workshop discussed several topics including evaluating the project's activities and proposing the coordination plan for the next phase; sharing the outcomes and solutions to effectively deploy operations this year./.
(HBO) - The use of chip-based citizen ID cards to replace paper health insurance cards in medical facilities in Hoa Binh is expected to be the start of a roadmap for the gradual replacement of paperwork in health care procedures, thus reducing the waste of time and money of local residents.
(HBO) – Hoa Binh provincial People's Committee on May 18 held a conference to introduce key tasks of child protection and care, gender equality, and the advancement of women in 2023. Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the Child Protection Programme, and Head of the Committee for the Advancement of Women in the province, chaired the conference.
(HBO) - The Provincial Center for Social Work and Children’s Protection Fund is currently nurturing and taking care of more than 200 social protection beneficiaries, mainly the disabled people with heavy mobility and neuropsychiatry. Living under the same roof, the disaled people in particular, the disadvantaged community in general, receive the care, sharing and love from the officials and employees working at the center and the organizations and individuals with a good and benevolent heart.
(HBO) – Electricity demand often surges in the hot season, posing the risk of grid overload. To ensure stable power supply in the hot season, the Hoa Binh Power Company (PC Hoa Binh) has taken various measures, including encouraging efficient electricity use.
(HBO) – In the 2021-2023 period, Lac Thuy district has received 24.42 billon VND (1.04 million USD) from the national target programme on promoting socio-economic development in the mountainous and minority-inhabited areas, including 13.58 billion VND of development investment capital.
(HBO) – Over the past time, many manufacturing businesses have moved to rural areas of the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh to seek labourers. As a result, several projects have proved highly effective, helping create jobs and transform economic structure in many areas of the province.
