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- Institutional, structures and capacities in place to: formulate disaster risk management policies, regulations, action plans, investment plans and institutional setting at national and provincial levels that take full account of climate change challenges, and improve coordination, information flow at the national level and in three pilot provinces to strengthen disaster preparedness and response.
- Support to disaster risk management (DRM) legislation and guidelines to implement the National Strategy for Disaster Prevention, Response and Mitigation to 2020 and ensuring consistency with climate change action plans;
- Support the formulation and issuance of national guidelines and standards to improve emergency response supply and distribution of food and drugs with focus on the most vulnerable groups (i.e. children, women, and the elderly) and recovery;
- Analyse the linkages between poverty and vulnerability and make concrete recommendations on insurance options (financial disaster risk transfer) for improving insurance-related policies and regulation by authorities and enabling implementation by insurance companies;
- Strengthen coordination and collaboration for policy development, early warning, and response
- Design of a central level DRM Centre, and three provincial level DRM Centres;
- Establish a central level DRM Centre, and three provincial level DRM Centres;
- Strengthen DRM capacities of key staff, of new DRM Centres and local Central Flood and Storm Control (CFSC) partner agencies.
Disaster risk management (DRM) is becoming increasingly pertinent as climate change (CC) is worsening recurrent natural disasters such as floods, storms and typhoons. Climate change is now a scientifically established fact and Viet Nam is one of the most affected countries by CC. Climate change is now seen as a threat to Human Development. The government of Viet Nam has estimated that accumulated flash floods accounted for more than 6% of deaths and 5% of total economic losses over the last ten years. The issue of CC is now high on the agenda of the Government as demonstrated by the ongoing formulation of a Viet Nam's National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change (NTP RCC). Although this NTP addresses all aspects of CC, including adaptation in various sectors and greenhouse gas mitigation, the increased risks for natural disasters associated with CC need to be addressed.
Viet Nam has a well established DRM mechanism and system from the central to local levels which is largely related to hydro-meteorological hazards. Given the current trends and predictions for climate change - and the fact that Viet Nam is likely to be one of the most severely affected countries globally – further consideration and improvement of the current DRM set-up is crucial if the Government and civil society are to be able to meet the rising challenges.
This project aims to work in three different provinces with the provincial governments to strengthen institutional capacity and develop greater knowledge and expertise on disaster risk management issues. It supports the objectives of the National Strategy for Disaster Prevention, Response and Mitigation to 2020 and the Action Plan Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector Period 2008-2020 prepared by MARD, as well as the National Target Program to Respond to Climate Change prepared by Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) in consultation with MARD.
Delivery in 2011: US$1,391,772 (as of February 17, 2012)
Delivery in 2010: US$888,815 (as of February 17, 2011)
Delivery in 2009: US$664,000 (as of February 02, 2010)
Delivery in 2008: US$56,429 (as of December 31, 2008)
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Contact:
UNDP:
Le Van Hung
United Nations Development Programme
25 - 29 Phan Boi Chau Street
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: (84 4) 3942 1495
Fax: (84 4) 3942 2267
National Project Director NDP:
Nguyen Xuan Dieu
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Room 407, A9 Building, 2 Ngoc Ha Street
Ba Dinh Dist., Hanoi
Viet Nam
Tel: (84 4) 37335699
Fax: (84 4) 37335701
