The Swiss Government will sponsor $11.231 million to the second phase of the Program on Public Services Provision Improvement in Agriculture and Rural Development (PS-ARD) in northern Hoa Binh and Cao Bang provinces.

An agreement to the effect was signed in Hanoi on July 5 by representatives of the two provinces and the Swiss government.

The second phase of the programme has been deployed in 2010 and will last through 2015 at an investment capital of $14.169 million.
The programme is intended to enhance communal level capacity building in making socio-economic development plans and better efficient and effective decentralized public service delivery systems and processes in agriculture and rural development.

(Source:http://en.baomoi.com/Home/sciencetechnology/www.vir.com.vn/Switzerland-finances-public-service-project/160244.epi)