Total Project Cost: US $335,950

PEF Financing: US $249,950

Approval Date: 14 October 2004

Main Project Partners: Canadian Centre of International Development and Cooperation (CECI) and Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES) of Kyoto University

Project Officer: Nao Ikemoto, Southeast Asia Department

Type of Intervention: Pilot Intervention

Status: Completed 

Summary:
The project enhanced human security in Central Viet Nam and helped improve the capacity to cope with natural disasters like flood and cyclone by developing a community-based climate change adaptation model to analyze the community adaptation strategies and coping mechanism and to test recommended interventions.

Poverty-Environment Linkage:
The project recognized that loss of assets because of floods and storms keep many rural communities in the Central region Viet Nam trapped in the cycle of poverty. The project aimed to address this issue by enhancing the capacity of poor rural communities to cope with natural disasters through undertaking awareness programs, conducting participatory planning process, preparing "safer village plans" and implementing pilot interventions.

Expected Outputs/Outcomes:

• Stakeholder and Resource Map
• Vulnerability, Capacity and Need Assessment Report
• Trained personnel and work force
• Simplified Climate Change Scenario and Community Based Climate Change Adaptation Model
• Raised awareness of the people and communities regarding the climate change impacts
• Safer village and commune plans and district level plan and framework of action and aware villagers and commune members

Major Components and Activities:

• Analysis of the climate change impacts and the coping mechanisms of the communities in Central Viet Nam
• Conduct of small-scale planning and implementation of demonstration projects in the communities
• Awareness raising
• Training and Capacity Building
• Development of a model for coping with climate change for its replication to other areas

Related Documents:

• PEP Proposal
• Project in Brief
• Final Report