International and Non-Government Partners

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International and Non-Government Partners

• for a Partnership for Development for Ethnic
  Minorities
• Graham Adutt, Ethnic Minorities Working Group
• emwg_at_netnam.vn

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Considering four sectors of a partnership
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• Vietnamese Government orgs.
• International Government orgs.
• International Non-Government orgs.
• Vietnamese Non-Government orgs.

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Each sector has different degrees of

• Money
• Power at higher levels
• Access to information and resources
• Understanding of the life of ethnic minority
  people in remote rural areas
• Ability/skill to work with local people

• - Lets share them.

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(What is the EM Working Group?)

• An informal association (under the Vietnam Union
  of Friendship Organisations / PACCOM / NGO
  Resource Centre)
• Of mainly International NGOs
• Without money, power, or legal status, and
  therefore limited ability to put ideas and words
  into action

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The Partnership process so far

• Consultative Group meetings
• Poverty Task Force/Working Group
• PRSP to CPRGS
• Numerous Partnership Groups
• Is another Partnership Group, for Ethnic
  Minorities, necessary or useful?

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Relevant parts of the CPRGS
page 1

• Ensure that ethnic minorities in the mountainous
  areas benefit from growth
• Evaluate and disseminate models to support
  disadvantaged areas and ethnic minorities
• Encourage them to take part in the economic
  development process
• Preserve and develop the reading and writing
  ability in ethnic languages
• Increase the proportion of ethnic minority people
  in elected bodies at various levels

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page 2

• Ensure the entitlement of individual and
  collective land-use rights in ethnic minority and
  mountainous areas
• Raise the intellectual level of the people,
  preserve and build on traditional cultural values
  of ethnic peoples
• Give priority to training and utilising the
  ethnic cadre at local level, gradually increasing
  the percentage of ethnic cadres
• Improve the targeting mechanism of program 135
  and implement it in a more participatory way
• Undertake independent evaluation of program 135
  and use findings to improve the design of the
  project

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Recent PPAs andVHLSS suggest thatthe share of
ethnic minorities among the poor is increasing,
from 20 in 1993 to more than 30 by 2002. By
2010 this share could be as high as 42 . The
upward trend is stronger in terms of food
poverty. The share of ethnic minorities among
the food-poor increased from less than 30 in
1993 to almost 50 in 2002. It could reach 67
in 2010. In other words, by 2010, poverty in
Vietnam could become mostly associated with
ethnic minorities.

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Poverty rates across ethnic groups,estimated,
based on 2002 VHLSS
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We are all looking forsolutions to poverty
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Recurrent solution themesarising in EMWG

• Need for better Partnership (as described above)
• Need to examine and increase our commitment to
  Participation of ethnic minority communities in
  development
• Need to incorporate Ethnic knowledge and culture
  into development interventions

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Where do we gofrom here?