Until December 2022, the project is implemented in four communes in Huong Hoa district, Quang Tri province and Ham Thuan Bac district, Binh Thuan province and three wards in Ho Chi Minh City. Tentatively, the FBEA-SEA project is expected to support more than 6,500 people to improve their capacity to manage disaster response and prevention plans. Actions to reduce the damage of extreme weather events, including floods, droughts and heat, are designed following the framework of the early warning-based action mechanism. The project is being implemented by Plan, CARE and World Vision and their partners, with financial support from the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Agency (ECHO).

At the workshop, project partners and stakeholders will spend time learning about the objectives, expected results and proposed innovative approaches to disaster response through early warning and early action.

In Vietnam, and especially in the central provinces, floods cause a lot of casualties and damages every year. International and domestic organizations have made great efforts to reduce the impact of floods in particular and natural disasters in general, increasing in level and scale.

In Quang Tri province, climate change has caused unpredictable impacts on the weather. Local people often face and suffer a lot of damage caused by natural disasters; while natural disasters are becoming more complicated, unpredictable, irregular as before, their frequency increases, their intensity increases every day, noticeably stronger.

Efforts for disaster relief and rehabilitation are often costly and require a lot of timely efforts. Instead of disbursing after a disaster, early action mechanisms and early disbursements to households and communities are based on warning timeframes set forth by scientists. The use of support resources humanitarian assistance will be much more effective and, at the same time, increase the resilience of communities to disasters.

Out of Vietnam, the project (FBEA SEA) will promote early action based on forecasts to help Southeast Asian countries prepare for effective disaster preparedness, with evidence are typical efforts undertaken in Vietnam.

At the workshop, a tripartite cooperation agreement between Huong Hoa District Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Plan and CARE, will be signed on the basis of reaching consensus on the Project implementation plan, the main roles and responsibilities of the partners and related parties.

Speaking at the event, Mr. Nguyen Duc Thanh, CARE’s Porfolio Manager shares, “FBEA SEA project aims at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and communities to respond to and adapt to disaster risks, especially with mechanisms in place. Early actions based on disaster forecasts are among CARE's strategic priorities for 2021-2025. CARE believes that the coordination between organizations and partners will bring positive and sustainable impacts to the community, improve disaster risk response and enable people to live safer lives.”

Also at the seminar, Mr. Luu Quang Dai, Program Development and Quality Manager, Plan affirmed: “Supporting the community to implement forecast based early actions is a new approach to helping communities improve resilience and move from passive to active in response to natural disasters. We hope that the project will receive the attention and support of central and local management agencies so that the early forecast-based approach can be expanded to suit the context of Vietnam."

The workshop will concrete the foundation for cooperation between Plan, CARE, the Red Cross Society and relevant technical partners in Huong Hoa district and Quang Tri province to work on initiatives which are based on forecast based early action approach.

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