Practitioner’s Diary: DRR Climate Change Adaptation and livelihood Integration: Ninh Thuan 29 October 2008 Provash Mondal Oxfam in Vietnam

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

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

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

Oxfam’s 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

Research 2006-2007 Oxfam- 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_change/downloads/ninh_thaun_research.pdf

Impacts of drought on livelihood in mountainous region

livelihood in coastal region

Current Oxfam’s 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

Example: Disaster risk reduction HVCA by Red Cross/ Oxfam staff using Red Cross and Oxfam’s 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

Examples: community level livelihoods adaptation activities Review Oxfam’s 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

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

What is new? Livelihood activities in two communes have baseline survey Staff and partners were only involved implementing livelihood activities Oxfam’s 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

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

Many Thanks