Project's information

Project's title Studying and assessment on natural disaster on livelihood of local people as minority ethnics in remote mountain areas of Lao Cai province and proposing resolution for sustainable development of livelihood
Research hosting institution Institute of Geography
Project leader’s name MSc. Dao Thi Luu
Project duration 01/01/2012 - 01/01/2014
Project’s budget 800 million VND
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Goal and objectives of the project

- Preliminary assessment on situation of livelihood and impacts of natural disaster on livelihood of local people as minority ethnics in Lao Cai province.
- Propose solution to promote livelihood base on sustainable development.

Main results

- Theoretical results: the project has an assessment on the situation of livelihood of local people as minority ethnics in Lao Cai province; assessment on the impacts of natural disaster (flash flood, landslide, strongly cold, harmful cold) on livelihood of local people as minority ethnics in Lao Cai province.
- Applied results: proposing general resolutions would support for Lao Cai province has an initiative to avoid, to prevent and to minimize the damages caused by natural disaster; has scientific foundation to planning a strategy to prevent and minimizing the natural disaster that would be occurred at locality, contributing to the National Strategy for natural disaster prevention; Contribute a scientific foundation to form an economic sustainable development program in a task of poverty-alleviation, improve life-standards for the people in minority ethnics, making a big quality and deeply change in ethnic work of the country.

Novelty and actuality and scientific meaningfulness of the results

- Successful assessment on situation of livelihood of people in minority ethnics in Lao Cai province.
- Basically and preliminary propose resolutions to minimize the damages caused by natural disaster for the local people in minority ethnics of Lao Cai province

Research region

- People Committee of Lao Cai province
- Lao Cai provincial departments of Environment and Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development; Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs of Lao Cai province.
- Researching Institutes, university and colleges would cite results of the project in their studying and training in some related fields.

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