PHÒNG CHỐNG BÃO ! – Prevent storm damage – Prévention des catastrophes naturelles

Yesterday, 22 November 2007, a National Workshop on Climate Change and Natural Disaster Management in Viet Nam has been held by the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control with the support of the Natural Disaster Mitigation Partnership under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The workshop was co-chaired by Mr. Dao Xuan Hoc, Deputy Minister cum Deputy Chairman of the CCFSC, Mr. Nguyen Cong Thanh, Deputy Minister of MONRE and Ms. Setsuko, UNDP Resident Representative.
The overall objective of the workshop was to raise awareness and attention among the public and key institutional stakeholders on the impact of climate change in disaster risk management in the broader rural development context in Vietnam. The Workshop gathered representatives of relevant Ministries and industries, of 17 coastal provinces, of several Embassies to Vietnam such as Royal Netherlands, Luxembourg, AusAid, Denmark, Sweden… and of the international organizations and NGOs. Additionally, mass media also attended the workshop and broadcasted the event.

The workshop shared information and the newest studies on climate change and its impacts on various areas and rural residents in Vietnam; introduced the Vietnam National Strategy for natural disaster preparedness and mitigation to 2020 towards the issue of climate change, which has just newly approved by the Government and so on

After presentations, participants have discussed on the issues that were interested by all. The detailed contents of the workshop will be included in the meeting minutes and shared with partners later through the NDM Partnership website.

Presentations delivered in the workshop:

1. Presentation on the newly approved National Strategy for DM to 2020 towards the issue of CC (by Standing Office of CCFSC)

2. Presentation on strategic directions of UN on the issue of CC (by UNDP)

3. Presentation on impacts of CC to rural development in Viet Nam and adaptation recommendations (by Scientific Institute of Water Resources, MARD)

4. Presentation on impacts of CC to natural resources and conditions, solutions for sustainable socio-economic development in Viet Nam (Scientific Institute on Hydro-meteorology and Environment – MONRE) 
5. Study report on Linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for sustainable poverty reduction in VN (by representative of Inter-government Panel on CC) 

(NDMP)