Thirty-two international organisations have donated some 25 million USD for people affected by natural disasters in Vietnam’s central region this year, heard at a conference held on December 16.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung and Kamal Malhotra, UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam, co-chaired a seminar on building the Vietnam – UN development cooperation framework in 2022-2026 in Hanoi on December 2.
A seminar in Hanoi on March 8 highlighted the need to overhaul legal documents relating to natural disaster prevention and control with children’s rights taken into consideration.
A conference was held in Ha Long city, in the northern province of Quang Ninh on March 7 to launch the third stage of the Vietnam Forests and Deltas Programme for the 2018-2020 period.
The Japanese and Indonesian governments have agreed to foster cooperation in disaster mitigation following humanitarian aid and disaster mitigation programmes in the wake of powerful earthquakes and tsunami in Central Sulawesi province.
Vietnam has built six prioritised programmes for natural disaster prevention, which include key contents of the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, heard a consultation session in Hanoi on June 27.
The building of disaster risk assessment tools for enterprises is significant in improving their awareness of the risks, said a representative from the Asia Foundation.
The United Nations (UN) vows to make long-term cooperation with the Vietnamese Government to cope with climate change, UN Resident Coordinator to Vietnam Kamal Malhotra has said.
The World Vision International (WVI) will provide an additional 2.26 million USD for existing programmes and projects in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai in 2017.
The department for external affairs in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on December 20 held a conference to call for international non-governmental funding.
A strategy and programme on children-oriented disaster risk mitigation for 2017-2021 with a vision until 2030 will be built, as heard a national conference held in the central province of Ninh Thuan.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society was selected to represent national organisations in Southeast Asia to host a meeting marking International Day for Disaster Reduction in Quang Nam on Oct.13.
Representatives from the Asia-Europe Meeting’s members, the United Nations (UN) and its agencies gathered for an ASEM Summit on disaster risk management in the central city of Da Nang on Sep 14.
Millions of residents in 10 coastal and mountainous provinces have benefited from a project on mangrove forestation and disaster risk mitigation implemented by the Vietnam Red Cross between 2011-2015.
Community-based disaster risk management was the focus of a workshop in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which opened in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh.
The two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference on intensifying
coordination in water resource management wrapped up in Ben Tre province
on June 5, confirming that water resources protection should be
included in each country’s sustainable development strategy.
The Japanese government has pledged to grant nearly 700,000 USD in
non-refundable aid to Vietnam in the 2014 fiscal year, with a view to
supporting the country to mitigate natural disaster risks and improve
primary education.
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