Viet Nam

This brochure describes the UN project 'Strengthening institutional capacity for Disaster Risk Management in Viet Nam' which was approved by the Prime Minister of Viet Nam in September 2008. The project demonstrates the added value of the UN working “as

This booklet describes ECHO's disaster risk reduction focus on awareness, preparedness and prevention activities by providing a background and cases from Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, the Greater Horn of Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean

This thematic review report on urban risk reduction in Asia was prepared by the Asia Regional Task Force on Urban Risk Reduction (RTF-URR) in the context of progress review in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action. It reviews the status of

This case study documents the efforts of Vietnam’s Central Committee on Flood and Storm Control (CCFSC) in raising community awareness on flood mitigation and disaster risk reduction. The success of this public awareness campaign provides some lessons in

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2007-09 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

Proceedings of the National Conference on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Local Governance (NCDRR) 2008, Makati City, Philippines, March 4-6, 2008:

This conference report asserts that successful mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction in local

This report provides a review of the economics of climate change in the Southeast Asian region. It confirms that the region is highly vulnerable to climate change and demonstrates that a wide range of adaptation measures are already being applied.

The

This joint study from Oxfam GB in Viet Nam and Cambodia, and the International Environment and Disaster Management (IEDM) laboratory of Kyoto University, investigates some aspects of the recent droughts in the Mekong region and tries to establish their