Managing Natural Hazards Project Approved

The Prime Minister has approved the resettlement policy framework for the Managing Natural Hazards Project (VN – Haz) sponsored by the World Bank.

 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is responsible for supervising the implementation of the resettlement policy.

 

The PM also tasked People’s Committees of ten relevant provinces to ratify resettlement action plans for their sub-projects.

 

Objectives of the project are: (i) strengthening capacity of natural disaster risk management agencies at the national, provincial, and district levels to improve plan preparation and risk mitigation; (ii) enhancing early natural disaster forecast and warning systems; (iii) building capacity at communal and village levels to support development of “Plans of safe villages and safe communes”; (iv) mitigating natural disaster risks at highly prioritized areas through arrangement of effective structural measures and investments in construction of small and medium-scale infrastructure; (v) improving capacity of project management and implementation, environmental and social management in integrated management of natural disasters.

 

The project will be carried out between 2012-2016 in ten localities in the central region, including Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Ninh Thuan and Da Nang city.