This project is directly concerned with supporting the lives and livelihoods of the poor, ethnic minorities and residents in areas affected by mineral exploitation in Quang Ninh district and Tuyen Hoa district, Quang Binh province through promoting support for improving livelihoods and strengthening cooperation between relevant parties in project activities for relevant communities. The project will develop solutions to improve livelihoods and improve the lives of people in areas affected by mining through a collaborativeapproach with relevant stakeholders in participating in solving problems, including local authorities, people and businesses in thearea. At the same time, support capacity building for the community, especially affected population groups, including women, the poor and ethnic minorities through training, building models, applying information technology and supporting the formation of linked groups to produce agricultural products for people participating in the project. Regarding improving livelihoods for people in residential areas affected by mining: - The project will select sustainable agricultural and forestry production development models, promoting local potentials and strengths to produce goods along the value chain. Truong Xuan and Tien Hoa are mountainous and midland communes with many natural forests with many valuable products such as wild bamboo shoots, rattan, and medicinal plants that can createhigher product values ​​through perfecting sustainable exploitation processes, perfecting product processing to ensure quality, registering product brands and accessing the market. Promoting the advantages of exploiting non-timber forest products creates jobs andincreases income for people working in the forest. Support economic development under the forest canopy associated with sustainableforest protection in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, protect the ecological environment, and minimize the impact of climate change. - Specifically, through project planning consultation, the Tien Hoa commune government proposed that according to the needs of people who want to develop biomass corn cultivation, an estimated 10 hectares will be planned for production to avoid stone mining areas and develop molasses and sugar products, which are shrinking in area and losing traditional occupations. For Truong Xuan commune, which is a mountainous commune with an area of ​​natural forest land with many bamboo shoot products, people often exploit andsell them at low value, thus supporting to increase the value of bamboo shoot products to help create jobs and increase income for villagers in the area of ​​bamboo exploitation. - Along with the process of supporting livelihoods, the project includes a number ofsolutions to solve the shortage of water for daily life, production, processing and livestock farming due to the impact of mineral exploitation such as building drilled water wells and water filtration tanks in some heavily polluted areas. Contribute to improvingpeople's health life. Regarding capacity building for the community: - The project will support people participating in the projectto form groups to participate in activities implementing livelihood models. - Many knowledge and skills will be raised to raise people's awareness about developing the value chain of agricultural products, medicinal plants, starting a business, starting a business, online sales skills, introducing products on social networks and e-commerce sites and the latest legal regulations related to local mineral mining activities. - Support consulting on employment, starting a business, establishing cooperatives, cooperative groups, loan procedures, health consulting, medical examination in project areas