Vietnam: National strategy on natural disaster prevention, response and mitigation to 2030, vision to 2050

This strategy sets out a number of specific targets toward 2030 as follows: Reduce damage caused by natural disasters, focusing on ensuring the safety of people’s lives during storms and floods, and reducing the loss of people’s lives due to flash floods and landslides by 50% compared to the 2011-2020 period; Strive for 100% of government agencies at all levels, organizations and households to fully receive information and understand natural disaster prevention skills; 100% of national, regional and provincial directing and operating agencies for natural disaster prevention and control shall complete the natural disaster prevention database, etc.

The government also sets out general tasks and solutions, including: Improve the system of laws and policies on natural disaster prevention and control to ensure synchronization, consistency, transparency and feasibility; Raise awareness about natural disasters and disaster risks, to strengthen community-based natural disaster risk management; improve the capacity for natural disaster prevention and control as well as save and rescue; improve capacity for forecasting and warning of natural disasters, etc.