The primary aims of the planning grant are to promote the participation of key stakeholders of the proposed project, including local authorities and relevant agencies and communities, and provide scientific assistance for the project development. Major activities of the project planning include conducting surveys on the genetic resources of indigenous chickens of the proposed project site, identifying proposed project objectives and activities and assessing their feasibility, and providing needed technical assistance in project design and writing project proposal which will be submitted to GEF/SGP for review and appraisal; and identifying possibilities for project synergies and resource mobilisation.

The proposed project is intended to be carried out in one locality in the northern upland of Viet Nam where there are rich genetic resources of indigenous chickens and where the indigenous peoples of H?Mong still keeps these chickens.