Sunday 10 March 2013

Week 6: Exercise

1) Does your city have a formal DRR strategy? What do you understand to be the relationship between this and a national DRR strategy?

Our national strategy on disaster risk prevention, combat and reduction up to the year 2020 has been approved in November 2007. Then, Ho Chi Minh city developed the agenda for implementation of this national strategy in December 2008. The implementation plan for Ho Chi Minh city has been issued in August 2010. So, the city DRR strategy is based on and as the implementation plan of the national strategy on disaster risk prevention, combat and reduction.

2) Which actors are most prevalent in DRR in your city?

Actors most prevalent in DRR in our city are:
- Police department
- Fire service
- High command of Ho Chi Minh city
- Department of health
- Department of natural resources and environment
- Department of transportation
- Department of construction
- Sub-department of quality management and aquatic resource protection (DARD)
as well as local agencies of all districts.

3) What are the main challenges that your city faces in terms of significantly reducing disaster risk?

Main challenges that our city faces in terms of reducing disaster risk are:
- Problems related to compensation for resettlement, relocation of underground works.
- The high tide/storm/tropical depression forecast is still not acurate.

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