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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Impacts of drought on livelihood in mountainous region

9. livelihood in coastal region

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Many Thanks