Policy-makers and domestic and international scientists attended a workshop in Hanoi on September 24 t to review migration policies in a bid to increase community resilience to climate change.
The function was held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Cooperatives and Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnam is particularly vulnerable to climate change’s negative impacts, both Bakhodir Burkhanov, UNDP Deputy Country Director, and Ma Quang Trung, Director of the department, agreed.
The Vietnamese Government has carried out a number of strategies to minimise the impacts of extreme weather phenomena and environmental pressures, with a focus on households affected by tsunamis, floods, flash floods, and landslides, they said.
In response to growing economic and environmental pressures, many people have been forced to alter their livelihood strategies or migrate. As a global trend, migration possesses a number of opportunities to mitigate the risks of climate change, address vulnerability, and improve economic opportunities, they added.
Bakhodir Burkhanov said Vietnam needs to enhance its resettlement programmes and eradicate barriers to the movement of people in order to improve the country’s resilience to climate change, facilitate the implementation of poverty eradication policies, and maintain human development progress.
UN reports urged Vietnam to reform its climate change-related policies and improve the effectiveness of migration and resettlement. Meanwhile, national and provincial programmes need to improve living conditions, diversify income-generating activities, and boost the resilience of migrated and resettled communities.
Additionally, authorities were called to improve their capacity to make sure target groups are benefitting from social support programmes and raise public awareness of climate change resilience.
During the workshop, participants also discussed the building of climate change-resistant houses and social support programmes.-VNA
The function was held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Cooperatives and Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnam is particularly vulnerable to climate change’s negative impacts, both Bakhodir Burkhanov, UNDP Deputy Country Director, and Ma Quang Trung, Director of the department, agreed.
The Vietnamese Government has carried out a number of strategies to minimise the impacts of extreme weather phenomena and environmental pressures, with a focus on households affected by tsunamis, floods, flash floods, and landslides, they said.
In response to growing economic and environmental pressures, many people have been forced to alter their livelihood strategies or migrate. As a global trend, migration possesses a number of opportunities to mitigate the risks of climate change, address vulnerability, and improve economic opportunities, they added.
Bakhodir Burkhanov said Vietnam needs to enhance its resettlement programmes and eradicate barriers to the movement of people in order to improve the country’s resilience to climate change, facilitate the implementation of poverty eradication policies, and maintain human development progress.
UN reports urged Vietnam to reform its climate change-related policies and improve the effectiveness of migration and resettlement. Meanwhile, national and provincial programmes need to improve living conditions, diversify income-generating activities, and boost the resilience of migrated and resettled communities.
Additionally, authorities were called to improve their capacity to make sure target groups are benefitting from social support programmes and raise public awareness of climate change resilience.
During the workshop, participants also discussed the building of climate change-resistant houses and social support programmes.-VNA
