InfoAct works to strengthen the livelihood and resilience of poor ethnic minority women and men in rural areas to climate change and climate shocks by improving their access to and use of climate information and resources such as insurance.

Background

Vietnam is among the few countries that are most prone to climate change and natural disasters, which range from storms and floods to droughts. When such events occur, poor ethnic minority people in rural and remote areas, especially women, will suffer the most.

While increasingly recognising changes in weather patterns that adversely affect their livelihoods, farmers largely lack the capacities and tools to gather and interpret climate information in a way that they can adapt for more effective prevention and increased resilience. They also lack access to resources and social protection mechanisms that could help them cope with climate shocks. As they mainly live on agricultural farming, it means that it is extremely difficult for poor people to move up in the income ladder while easier for those who are near poor to fall back under the poverty line.

Objective InfoAct

Through InfoAct, CARE works to strengthen the livelihood and resilience of poor ethnic minority women and men in rural areas to climate change and climate shocks by improving their access to and use of climate information and resources such as insurance.

Key outcome of InfoAct

• Strengthened capacity of service providers and users to produce and to interpret and apply climate information.
• Increased ethnic minority women and men’ access to relevant climate information.
• Improved social protection and climate risk insurance coverage for ethnic minority households through Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs).
• Improved coordination mechanism for climate information and climate risk micro-insurance system.
• Increased capacity of local partners to develop understandable downscaled climate information and advisories, thus better supporting local farmers in articulating their climate information demand with local authorities.

Participants of InfoAct

Location

Dien Bien and Lai Chau provinces.

Time

5/2018-4/2021

Donor