Practitioner

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Practitioners Diary DRR Climate Change
Adaptation and livelihood Integration Ninh Thuan
29 October 2008
Provash Mondal Oxfam in Vietnam
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Sub-climate regions and their vulnerability to
natural disasters
Flashflood, storm, landslide, earthquake
1. Northern Uplands
Storm, tropical depression, river flood,
inundation
2. Red River Delta
Storm, flood, flashflood
North Central
Storm, flood, flashflood, drought
South Central
Central Highlands
Flood, flashflood
Southeast
Flashflood, flood, storm, drought
Mekong River Delta
Mekong River Delta
Flood, landslide,
saltwater intrusion, storm surge, inundation
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Climate Vulnerability ( sea level rise)

• Vietnam one of the most vulnerable countries due
  to climate change and sea level rise
• past 50 years, sea level rise increased about 20
  cm

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Disaster and vulnerabilities in Ninh Thuan

• Ninh Thuan experienced severe drought
• Typhoons
• Flash floods and landslide
• Forecasting drought/climate changes in Ninh
  Thuan are more and more serious in the future.
• Sea level rise, migration
• Ethnic minority, poorest province, no voice

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Oxfams Livelihoods Program since 2005

• Horticulture
• Provide seedlings and technical training on
  planting hybrid maize, cassava, bamboo for shoot,
  Jatropha
• Provide seedlings and techniques on planting home
  garden vegetables utilized daily used water
• Animal husbandry
• Provide technical training and lending breeds of
  black pigs, cow and local chicken via community
  revolving funds
• Water management
• Establish water use groups and developing
  regulations for maintenance
• Support to build up public gravity water flow
  system, and irrigation canal systems

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Research 2006-2007Oxfam- Kyoto University
 Climate Change Research

• Historical profile
• Climate chance perception
• Rainfall variability last 60 years
• Vulnerabilities and risks
• Impact of drought
• Climate change impact in mountainous and coastal
  areas
• Short term and long term recommendation
• http//www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_c
  hange/downloads/ninh_thaun_research.pdf

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Impacts of drought on livelihood in mountainous
region
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livelihood in coastal region
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Current Oxfams activities and Plan 2008

• Community level HVCA by Province and use climate
  change lances
• Supporting community ongoing adaptive activities
• Revising Livelihood activities and implementation
  methodology ( short term and long term
  perspective
• Adding disaster risk mitigation, early warning,
  emergency preparedness
• Involve multi stakeholders involving scientist,
  practitioners and Govt./leaders
• Household- commune-province- national level
  linkage
• MEL ( Baseline survey, mid-term assessment and
  final assessment

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Example Disaster risk reduction

• HVCA by Red Cross/ Oxfam staff using Red Cross
  and Oxfams tools
• Providing training for communities on emergencies
  of disasters
• Early warning system
• Conduct workshops on DRR to specific identify
  roles and responsibilities of each parties local
  authorities, communities and individuals
• Conduct competition for communities on drawings
  of their understanding about forest protection
  and DRR.
• Emergency Preparedness to respond frequent and
  sever emergencies timely and effectively to

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Examples community level livelihoods adaptation
activities

• Adaptation
• Review Oxfams ongoing activities considering
  multi-sectoral livelihood intervention and gender
  perspective
• Advocacy on public health, water education and
  other section
• Support to change crop calendar, new types of and
  crop reorientation
• Provide training how to store and save water
• Support to build individual water cisterns to
  store water (rain or collected water)
• Provide guidelines and materials to make roof of
  cottages to reduce heat

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Policy and practices change in next 2- 3 years

• Share experiences in district and province
• Replicate other provinces
• Support district and Province authority to
  develop integrated socio-economic plan including
  DRR and climate change
• Contribute to the National Plan ( SEDP)- Aim 4
  will be working with us for changing Province and
  national Plan

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What is new?

• Livelihood activities in two communes have
  baseline survey
• Staff and partners were only involved
  implementing livelihood activities
• Oxfams drought response project 2005

• Have in-depth assessment, long terms perspective
• Climate change forecasting
• Disaster risk reduction included
• Early warning mechanism
• Staff are thinking widely
• Adaptive activities wider context, consciously
  doing, modeling current coping mechanism
• Scientists, leaders, practitioners are involved
• Linking local, national and global

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Challenges

• Changing staff and partners idea and believes
• Experiences, knowledge and expertise are limited
• Time We all are busy
• Money (OGB and OAus)
• MEL
• Advocacy, linking, articulation

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Many Thanks