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People ride their motorcycle in a flooded street in Ho Chi Minh City
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Many urban regions across the globe are confronted with increasing flood risks for people, infrastructures, livelihoods and ecosystems, resulting from rapid urbanization and changes in climate, societies, and land use.
United Nations University (UNU)
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Mrs. Pham Thi Lien has lived in Tan Loc village for most of her life. When we arrived, she was hoeing the garden in front of her house with only one arm. She lost her other arm when she was eight years old.
United Nations Development Programme - Viet Nam
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This briefing note provides an overview of Viet Nam’s NAP M&E system and lessons learned from initial experiences with its implementation.
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This briefing examines the role that anticipatory action can play in addressing and mitigating heat waves, drawing on the process followed to implement a forecast-based financing project in Hanoi, Viet Nam.
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Drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Kenya, Mongolia and Viet Nam, this briefing explores the mechanisms that set up these science–humanitarian partnerships for success, and some of the shared benefits they deliver.
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This article seeks to fill the void related to how risk-taking behaviour is influenced by the interplay of agency and social structures by utilising Bourdieu's theory of practice to develop the Practice-Oriented Risk Habitus and Multiple-Capital Model.
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Dengue is a threat to people’s health in Vietnam, and it’s being exacerbated by climate change. A new digital tool could protect more people by predicting where potential dengue outbreaks might happen.
Wellcome Trust
A farmer planting on the organic paddy rice farmland
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If you have a chance to visit the farm of Thi Dieu and Mang Min in Thuan Bac district in south Viet Nam, what you see will make you think of a football field: a hard and flat ground and little grass.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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