With the financial asistance provided by UNDP-GEF SGP, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in A Luoi district has in collaboration with the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), implemented the project “Strengthening the ethnic minority community’s capacity for forest and biodiversity resources conservation associated with sustainable livelihood development in Sao La Nature Reserve, Thua Thien Hue province”. The project aimed to achieve specific objectives, as follows: (i) Raise awareness of forest protection and management, ecological environment protection and biodiversity conservation among local people and communities in Huong Nguyen commune; (ii) Improve local people’s and community’s technical knowledge and skills in sustainable forest protection and management and biodiversity conservation ; (iii) Improve livelihoods and increase incomes for local people and communities who rely on forests. The project has been implemented in Huong Nguyen commune - one of four communes in the Sao La Nature Reserve. Its duration was 18 months and its total funding was VND 1,484,595,000.