Effective use of Asian Development Bank (ADB) capital

(Baonghean.vn) Nghe An is one of 6 provinces (Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Binh Dinh) benefiting from the Central Region Rural Clean Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Project (Funding from the Asian Development Bank ADB) with a total investment of 50 million USD (of which counterpart capital is 5 million USD). The project implementation period is from 2010 to 2016.

Through this capital source, in the clean water supply and rural environmental sanitation project area in the central region, investment will be made in the construction of centralized clean water supply works to ensure the standard of not less than 80 liters/person/day and meet the standards of the Ministry of Health, at the same time supporting people to improve community and family hygiene, including: New construction, renovation of toilets, household wastewater drainage works; New construction, renovation of water supply systems, toilets in schools and medical centers, community living areas; New construction of small drainage works in public works.

Dien Nguyen Water Plant - Dien Chau.

As an investment project in rural areas, the Central Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project pays special attention to the issue of raising awareness of hygiene, to ensure that the interests of users are maintained after the project is completed so that at least 90% of the population in the project area has access to the water supply system and pays water bills on time. One area of ​​investment interest is strengthening the capacity of sector planning and implementation through activities on operation and maintenance procedures of works. Effective monitoring and evaluation of clean water supply and sanitation investment.

According to the project plan, there will be items: construction of civil works, consulting services, seminars, training, community fund for improving sanitation conditions, interest payment during the project implementation phase... In our province, after benefiting from the project, all levels and functional sectors actively implemented it and established a Project Management Board, issued operating regulations, coordinated with the Women's Union to draft the Implementation Contract and a handbook for disbursing the revolving credit fund to build family toilets, and participated in professional training courses organized by ADB. This is an important project, so the province has allocated an initial capital of 2 billion VND to support the operation. Our province has chosen Dien Yen commune (Dien Chau) as the site to build a pilot model to implement the project. Currently, a community survey and a technical survey for establishing an investment project have been organized.

With the timely support of relevant agencies, the investment project and consulting bidding plan (survey consulting, construction drawing design, supervision consulting) have been approved by the province. Currently, Dien Yen is carrying out planning, land acquisition, resettlement compensation and site clearance for the construction of a centralized clean water supply connection area. In addition to the project implementation in Dien Yen, potential sub-projects are being carried out in Dien Hong, Dien Thap, Dien Lien, Dien Binh, Dien Cat (Dien Chau), Long Thanh, Nam Thanh, Trung Thanh (Yen Thanh), Quynh Giang (Quynh Luu) and Hung Chau (Hung Nguyen).

An officer of the Nghe An Clean Water Supply - Sanitation and Rural Development Project Management Board said: "With the timely support of all levels and sectors, in the coming time, we will submit to the competent authority for approval the response plan, organize the activities of the water supply components according to the program of the international consultant and in the pilot communes, continue to train and improve the capacity of commune-level implementing organizations, volunteer teams, and organize communication activities."

Hoang Vinh