1. UNDP interview with Dr. John Marsh, Prosperity Initiative Executive Director.
2. Info TV interview with Dr. John Marsh - Vietnam bamboo: Opportunities and Potential
3. Info TV interview with Dr. John Marsh - Pressed bamboo: Opportunities for Vietnam bamboo
4. VTV4 - Chao Vietnam Programme with Dr. John Marsh
5. InvestTV interview with Dr. John Marsh - Sustainable development for bamboo and rattan in Vietnam
6. VTC 10 interview with Dr. John Marsh - Opportunities for Industrial Bamboo
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| Prosperity Initiative Begins Lao PDR and Cambodia Bamboo Handicrafts Project |
On 26 March, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) signed a contract with Prosperity Initiative to implement the project Improving Bamboo Handicraft Value Chains for Women's Economic Empowerment in Cambodia and Lao PDR. The project is one of several around the world under the World Bank Gender and Development Action Plan's Results Based Initiative (RBI) which seeks to pilot, measure and ultimately scale up proven interventions for women's economic empowerment. UNIFEM are the World Bank's implementation partners, while the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) lead the impact assessment component for the World Bank's RBI globally. Prosperity Initiative will manage the Lao and Cambodia project, which aims to create jobs and increase income for bamboo handicraft producers through innovations in the sector and introduction of new business opportunities. The $620,000 project will work with approximately 1,500 households in target provinces in both countries, where more than 80% of the people involved in the subsector are women. The work will focus on improvement of processing productivity, improved market linkages and design.
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