Field work in ethnic minority area, Kon Tum Province. Local people analyzed their village.

Kon Tum Province Child Nutrition Improvement Project (CNIP) completed in 2018 gained a high reputation from the government, and FIDR received a request to implement this project in an entire part of the province. In Kon Tum Province, the nutritional condition of infants has not improved except in the two districts where CNIP was implemented, and the malnutrition rate of children under five years old is 40%, which is the highest in Vietnam.

The cause analysis conducted in this fiscal year identified that not only low knowledge and behavior of local residents in health and sanitation, but also low agricultural productivity and income would be challenge. Therefore, in addition to the activities including complementary feeding and Mother's Space, a facility with toilet, shower, and laundry, promoted in the previous CNIP, we decided to adopt the activities of enhancing agricultural technology and community cooperation in order to improve life condition in the entire region; as a result, the nutritional and health condition of children will continuously improve. The project team is on the process of preparing for the implementation of the project activities.