The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Australian
Agency for International Development (AusAID) are assisting Vietnam
in disaster risk management, particularly climate change-related
risks.
With a budget of 5 million USD, mostly
funded by UNDP, the Institutional Capacity Building for
Disaster Risk Management project aimed at helping the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Vietnam Red Cross and the
Vietnam Women’s Union enhance their disaster risk management capacity.
It also supports Vietnam’s natural disaster
management centre and the committees of flood prevention in provinces in
making their plans and implementing and supervising effectively
community-based disaster risk management programmes.
According to the MARD, the project has a target of building a strategy
and mechanism to support the implementation of multilateral agreements
as well as working out effective measures to reduce natural disaster
risks and adapt to climate change.
The project is implemented in Hanoi and 20 other provinces and cities until 2016.-VNA