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The goal of the Project is to improve the living standard of the poor and ethnic minorities by equipping them with relevant skills for employment and self-employment. The Project aims to pilot an innovative approach to poverty reduction through demand-driven skills training, so that methodologies and implementation arrangements tested under the Project will be incorporated and replicated in the Government's National Targeted Program on Poverty Reduction, 2006-2010 and a follow-up program. The specific objectives of the Project are to (i) build capability for vocational training providers to effectively mobilize resources; and manage skills training, career guidance, placement services, business start-up assistance, and follow-up consultations; (ii) provide the beneficiaries selected from the poor with a comprehensive package of skills training for employment; and (iii) provide project management and coordination support. The Project will be implemented in Tra Vinh and Soc Trang provinces in Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta, focusing on the poorest districts.