Viet Nam: Focus on natural calamity control

[...]

The General Department of Natural Calamity Prevention has been asked to speed up the progress of construction and implementation of strategies and projects such as the national disaster prevention plan; the overall scheme to prevent river and coastal erosion around the country and the Mekong Delta region; the overall project of natural disaster prevention and control in the northern mountainous, central and Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) regions; a project of residential relocation for disaster-hit areas; and the project to build the National Disaster Prevention and Control Centre.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyễn Xuân Cường, who is the head of the National Committee on Natural Calamity Prevention, has asked the general department to improve the capacity to cope with natural disasters, with a focus on examining and evaluating the current conditions of dyke systems before the rainy and flood season as well as setting up response plans and boosting dyke maintenance.

[...]

In terms of the application of science and technology and international co-operation, Cường instructed the general department to set up a comprehensive database of natural disaster prevention to share with relevant agencies and the community, and to carry out online monitoring of key projects, critical locations and vulnerable areas via cameras and remote sensing equipment.

[...]

The general department also submitted a draft of the national strategy for natural disaster prevention by 2030; a master plan on emergency evacuation, and flash flood and landslide prevention; a master plan on natural disaster prevention in the northern mountainous, the central and Central Highlands regions; a project on improving national capacity for natural disaster prevention; and an adjustment of the project on community awareness raising and community-based disaster risk management.