The information was released at a meeting held on February 1 to carry out the 2018 plan of the SME Tra Vinh project.

This year, the project will spend VND15 billion (US$660,000) on building and implementing plans to back local SMEs, VND10 billion (US$440,000) on building small-scale infrastructure for SMEs’ development and over VND6 billion (US$263,400) on building capacity to carry out support programmes.

The remaining will be used for other activities related to environment, communications, supervision and evaluation.

During 2016-2017, the project disbursed more than VND55 billion (US$2.4 million) to support SMEs, VND6.5 billion, (US$285,000) of which was from the province’s corresponding funds and the rest was given by the Canadian Government.
The SME Tra Vinh project, carried out during 2014-2020, is sponsored by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade with a total investment of 12.1 million CAD (US$9.8 million),  with 11 million CAD being non-refundable aid.

As many as 200 enterprises and more than 194,000 residents in 22 rural communes of Tra Vinh have benefited from the project.

Source: vov.vn