Vietnam

Improving the Sanitary Environment of District 8

• Funding: RRA (K€200) and Popular Committee of District 8 (K€15)
• Global budget: K€215
• Duration: 10 months (January to October 2011)

This project will be implemented in District 8, an urban area with high population density zone (approximately 408,000 inhabitants). Located east of the town centre, poorly covered by public transport, it is considered by the Popular Committee’s Department of Poverty Reduction as the second poorest district of the province (average monthly revenue between $50 and $100).

Access to basic services is broadly covered by state facilities, on the condition that beneficiaries are listed at Social Services and have obtained residential status. The facilities, however, are often obsolete and crowded due to the increasing immigration of peasants expropriated from the Mekong delta (about 100,000 people settle in Ho Chi Minh every year).