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Lecture by JICA expert

The JICA training mission for「Capacity Building for policy making on water resource management in the field of Climate Change Adaptation」visited this project on December 6 and 7 the same as last year.

This training targeted vice-ministerial people responsible for climate change and natural disaster from the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar Bangladesh and Vietnam.

On December 6, they visited our counterpart office of flood and storm control. Vietnamese staffs explained the situation of flood and climate change in central Vietnam and the JICA expert explained the project outline. In the afternoon, they visited the electricity dam which is expected to control floods. On December 7, they visited the pilot project site of low cost small scale river bank protection and community disaster management.

Visiting Hung Dien electricity Dam

The attendants of this training are vice-ministerial persons, therefore the disaster management strategy of Vietnam, JICA guideline for climate change, T.T.Hue integrated flood management plan considering climate change and community disaster management activities was explained.

Further, vice chairman of the commune and village leader explained the activities in the project. The attendants looked at and confirmed hazard maps shown on the wall of the community hall.

Visiting Low cost Small Scale River Bank Protection Pilot site

This training was carried out for 7 days in Japan. They visited this project as the site training after desk top training in Japan. Therefore the attendants understood well by the confirmation of the actual situation and activities in Vietnam.