INNOVATION PLAN

VIET NAM TEAM

Developing Rural Traditional Trade Village for Pro-poor

COCONUT PRODUCT IN BEN TRE PROVINCE

70% population depend on coconut; 30% of them are pro – poor and near poor (24,000)

Current group (small scale:10 people)

The price is falling

Mainly export to China

Create more jobs, enhance incomes for the rural; give them livelihoods after the project end

Enlarge group (20-30 people)

Add value to coconut

Export to many markets

Governance: support policy, tax… Enterprises: investment, marketing… Community (rural poor): produce NGOs – IFAD: funding, training, building…

capacity for the rural poor

S Natural conditions Large raw material area Diversify products Experiences in making handicraft Wide collecting network  

Habit of selling raw material Enterprises not interesting Family household production Plating according to traditional model A lot of poor employees    

O Potential development Large market Investment promotion

policies Encourage planting coconut

W T• Disease• Economic crisis• Price competition • Unstable labour

Inputs Collecting processing Transport Trade

Planting

-Plant protection

Dept.- Fertilizer suppling company

- Farmer households-Employees

-- Farmer households

-Traders- Family

enterprises

-Farmer households

- Enterprises-CIGs

-Transport station

-Employees-Enterprises

-Export-Domestic

Inputs Collecting processing Transport Trade

Planting

Whole nut

Green husk

Natural retting

White fibre

Yarn

- MAT

Dry husk

Soaking/mech extraction

Brown fibre

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1. Evaluating training & upgrading coconut value chain

- Hold workshops on sharing and learning experiences in developing CVC

- Provide training activities to support coconut value chain (DPC)

2. Improve BDS provided to SMEs & family enterprises

- Set up a BDS network to support for rural business activities (DOIT, IPA…)

Improve & strengthen functions of business service provision of exisiting public and private institutions and agencies

Linking & networking between poor employers & potential enterprises

Holding short-term vocation training courses (combining with the local enterprises); training handicraft skill

In-depth training related to coconut production techniques to farmers.

Provide micro-financial for CIGs

CIGs formed with high participation of poor households

Members on new and existing CIGs trained on groups for management, value chain approaches, marketing and savings and credits, business plan formulation.

Networking and contract farming promoted among CIGs, buyers, sellers of inputs.

Contract farming between CIGs and buyers Evaluate and improve contract farming in

coconut product

Provincial Project Management Unit established

M&E system established Budget management

Reducing poverty rate annually 30%

Attracting investment from private sectors

Developing local areas producing handy craft

Educating and training for local people

Providing jobs and income for local people including 30% poor background people

Component 1: 17 million USD Component 2: 8 million USD Component 3: 2.9 million USD Physical contingencies: 0.2 million USD Price contingencies: 0.5 million USD

TOTAL: 28.6 million USD