Through the Flood Resilience Support Platform project, CARE works to improve the consultation process between affected communities and relevant stakeholders. This multi-stakeholder and cross-border dialogue for win-win solutions can be adapted in similar contexts throughout Southeast Asia.

Background

Da Nang City and Quang Nam province share the Thu Bon and Vu Gia river basin, yet river management is complicated by administrative jurisdictional boundaries that dissect basins and limit coordinated action. Technical efforts to understand river risk are usually sector-focused with no integration across departments. In addition, attempts to mitigate flood risks are absent of key stakeholders, including urban planners, reservoir operators, and at-risk communities.

Objective of Flood Resilience Support Platform

The project works to improve the consultation process between affected communities and relevant stakeholders.

Key outcome:

  • The river management platform will support collaboration between the two provincial governments and multiple provincial departments. Representatives from poor and vulnerable communities at risk of impacts from the decisions being made will be included to ensure their viewpoints and concerns are represented and the communities empowered.
  • The project will create an accessible, credible, data-driven analytical tool for spatial analysis of changing flood risks as a function of upstream and downstream land-use and development changes, reservoir operations, and changing climate.
  • The platform will provide the information needed to assess and understand the trade-offs to be had within and between cities and provinces and will improve the capacity to integrate economic, technical, environmental, and social factors into policy discussions.
  • The project team will capture lessons and learning, details on the tools and consultation platform, processes of data collection, and analyses such that they can be transferred to other contexts.

Role of CARE in Flood Resilience Support Platform

CARE is responsible for risk assessment for flooding and drought at the community level; and capacity building for the most vulnerable groups, particularly women, so they actively engage in multi-stakeholder and cross-border dialogue and voice their needs and concerns. To support replication and scaling, team members build a contextual understanding of how the process works and under what conditions.

Participants of Flood Resilience Support Platform

People’s Committees
of Quang Nam
and Da Nang		 Inter-provincial
Coordination Committee		 Departments of
Natural Resources
and Environment		 Local communities

Location

Da Nang City and Quang Nam Province

Time

1/2017 – 7/2018

Donor

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