At the event “Sharing experiences and learning from GREAT” taking place on January 19 in Hanoi, the project “Improving economic empowerment for ethnic minority women through the development of a clean bamboo shoot value chain” implemented by the Center for Rural Economic Development in Van Ho district, Son La province under the sponsorship of GREAT was honored as one of the ten best projects out of 52 projects in the program. GREAT is being implemented in two provinces of Lao Cai and Son La in 2020.

With high efficiency in implementing the project and achieving the sustainable development goals set by the project, the Rural Economic Development Center was honored with the “PARTER of the YEAR 2020” award. of Australia Aid.