Gio My commune is at Gio Linh district to the East, central area of Vietnam. The natural area takes up 2,968,97 ha while its sandy area is covered with 1,707,42ha. The area is often affected by natural disasters such as floods, drought, desertification which hinders the agricultural development and alleviate the poverty of locality. The project is designed to address those problems whose main objective is to reduce the impact of drought, and extreme weather to ensure farmers' productivity in the sandy area then improve community's lives and protect the environment. The project tends to (i) raise awareness on land degradation, desertification for community; strengthen land recovering then promoting productivity in the sandy land (ii) to use the demonstration model of utilizing the sandy land efficiently in production in ways of synthesizing land, water, biodiversity resources dealing with extreme weather in Gio My commune

Expected Results
Output 1.0: 40ha - including 20-ha peanuts of L14, L26 varieties; 2-ha scallions; 2-ha chillies; 16-ha melon - was demonstrated with intensive-cultivation and irrigation techniques through 4 crops (2 winter-spring and 2 summer-autumn crops) in an area of 10ha/crop. Peanut yield was 2.5-3 tons/ha; scallion 6-7 tons/ha; chilli 6 tons/ha; watermelon and melon 25-30 tons/ha.
Indicator 1.1: Detailed design documents were developed and assessed, including technical solutions and budget estimates of the model, implementation, monitoring and evaluation plans.
Indicator 1.2: 50 households were selected to participate in the model based on project criteria, of which women accounted for 60%.
Indicator 1.3: 50 households received technical assistance in forestry, farming, irrigation, husbandry, and financial resources to implement the model (purchasing supplies, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides).

Output 2.0: Enhance technical capacity of communities in implementing irrigation, intensive cultivation and sustainable use of land and water resources, to cope with droughts, floods, freezing and damaging cold events.
Indicator 2.1: 11 technical training courses with 550 participants, including:
- Land degradation and desertification affecting agricultural production; adaptation measures to minimize risks in production.
- Techniques in irrigation, management, operation and maintenance of irrigation works.
- Technical advances applied in production, using selective crops and livestocks for project pilot (combined with integration project)
- Planting and tending techniques for vegetation buffer zone against mobile sand.
Indicator 2.2: An self-management irrigation community was established and received capacity building in management and exploitation of household wells, to (i) ensure timely drainage of May-rain flood during winter-spring crop harvesting, and prevent inundation for summer-autumn crop from heavy rain, (ii) timely prevent drought for peanuts, vegetables and melons, (iii) enhance the responsibility of each household in using water and protecting irrigation canals.

Output 3.0: Demonstrated models were monitored and evaluated during implementation, in order to replicate in other localities.
Indicator 3.1: Techniques in irrigation, farming, husbandry, and forestry were transferred to households during technical assistance process. Data and information were collected for evaluation, technical documentation and lessons learned.
Indicator 3.2: 3 Community exchange at field site to review and share experience in implementing the model were organized for participating households and farmers in Gio My as well as other localities in the district.
Indicator 3.3: Technical documents on irrigation, farming, husbandry, and forestry were developed based on results of the project models. Lessons learned from the implementation were collected.
Indicator 3.4: Technical documents, lessons learned were reviewed and printed for dissemination.
Indicator 3.5: Project replication plan was developed and reviewed.

Output 4.0: Awareness and understanding of climate change and adaptation measures of the government and the community were enhanced.
Indicator 4.1: Climate change impacts and adaptation measures were integrated into village and community meetings.
Indicator 4.2: Organized two dialogues on climate change impacts and adaptation measures with participation of Gio My local government, agencies and communities (100 participants).

Output 5.0: Irrigation systems were built to meet irrigation needs
Indicator: 02 irrigation canals with a total length of 1.5 km was constructed; 20 wells were installed to ensure water supply for crops.

Output 6.0: Vegetation buffer zone was replanted to prevent mobile sand.
Indicator: 5000 yellow-flower melaleuca trees and 3000 pandanus trees were planted.