VOV.VN - The General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has come together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to hold a seminar on April 16 in Hanoi aimed at boosting capacity building as part of integrated disaster risk management in the context of climate change.

The Prime Minister has approved a scheme for climate resilience development in urban areas in the next 10 years.

Vietnam has set a goal of building and maintaining a national water resource monitoring system and another system to forecast flooding, drought, saltwater intrusion and rising sea water level by 2030.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently granted approval to a master plan aimed at developing Vietnamese cities towards the year 2030 in response to climate change challenges.

Construction of 106 houses in natural disaster-hit areas worth VND14.3 billion (US$615,000) began in the central province of Quang Tri on March 5, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

VOV.VN - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided a sum of VND12.3 billion to 465 households in Nghia Hanh district of Quang Ngai province in order to contribute to repair work and to reinforce local houses that were damaged by typhoons and flooding last year.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has offered the central province of Quang Tri over VND6.9 billion (over US$300,000) in non-refundable aid to help it handle the damage caused by consecutive storms and flooding in October last year.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dan Tri newspaper, and the Vietnam Fund for Promoting Education on February 5 officially launched a crowdfunding campaign entitled “Safe Houses Save Lives” with the aim of building 100 new storm- and flood-resilient houses for poor and near-poor families in the coastal province of Quang Binh.

More than 110 Americans have donated more than US$28,000 so far in a charity campaign organised by Ronald L. Haeberle, whose photographs of the My Lai Massacre turned American public opinion against the war.

The nation records from 10-15 flash floods each year, mostly in the northern mountainous, central, Central Highlands and southeastern regions, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Vu Duc Long said on January 15.