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Project Objectives
The overall objective of the project is to assist the municipality
of Hai Duong develop the socio- economic position of local
residents though the development of structures, programmes
and initiatives which will exploit the tourist potential of
the town and its craft enterprises.
The specific objectives include:
- To develop the skills and capacity of
staff from the municipality of Hai Duong.
- To assist the municipality and other
local agencies develop a co-ordinated approach to supporting
enterprises involved in producing cultural crafts and in
exploiting the tourist potential and local economic development
potential of these crafts.
- To set up a Crafts Development Board
which will take overall responsibility for the development
of initiatives developed to assist craft businesses and
exploit their tourist and economic development potential
- To rehabilitate a traditional municipal
building in Hai Duong and develop it as a Crafts Promotion
Centre.
- To establish the Crafts Promotion Centre
to provide support to local craft businesses, and act as
a flagship project and an example of good practice in urban
economic development and regeneration.
- To develop sustainable links between
the 3 municipalities (London Borough of Hackney in the UK,
the Municipality of Hai Duong in Vietnam, and Limerick Corporation
in Ireland) involved in the project, which will enable the
sharing of best practice and lead to lasting business, cultural
and municipal links.
Such links are expected to enhance the development not only
of Hai Duong, but also the Little Vietnam initiative in
Hackney, and tourism and small business development initiatives
in Limerick and the Shannon region of Ireland.
- To demonstrate how an initiative
such as this can benefit poor communities in both Asia and
the EU, and to ensure that the lessons learnt from the project
are disseminated as widely as possible.
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Irish/English delegation and some of their Vietnamese hosts
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