Keyword: "ASEAN Day for Disaster Management"

Rapidly shifting climate conditions and increasingly overlapping hazards mean disaster risk reduction can no longer stand alone; it must sit at the heart of sustainable development, tightly integrated with climate response, water security, social welfare and economic growth.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its partners have reaffirmed commitments to raise the ASEAN people’s awareness about the importance of disaster risk reduction during the commemoration of ASEAN Day for Disaster Management (ADDM) 2021.

Over the past 30 years, natural disasters in Vietnam cause the death or missing of nearly 400 people along with economic losses of about 1-1.5 percent of GDP each year.