Support for the Work
Where?
Central Vietnam - focussed on Thua Thien Hué province
How?
- Getting the prevention message across through animation & entertainment.
- Civic capacity building and enhancing village level practical skills.
- Developing a debate about achieving safe building.
- Demonstrating practical and accessible preventive strengthening.
DWF’s focus is on reducing vulnerability through exchange and communication
with the population to promote preventive strengthening:
Animation: A participatory programme in each commune works to stimulate short
and long term awareness of the need to take account of preventive strengthening
in building and rebuilding. Animation uses a large variety of local skills
including theatre, poetry, song, school competitions and special action weeks
around a theme or a specific project such as strengthening a market.
Developing the social and institutional environment: DWF works with beneficiary
families and helps them strengthen their homes, and it works with community
and women’s and farmers unions and local government. Commune Damage
Prevention Committees have been established by DW and play a central role
in coordinating commune activities.
Practical demonstrating: In selected hamlets DW demonstrates with families
how preventive action can realistically be applied on existing homes and village
buildings, showing achievable, durable and affordable strengthening within
the community that respect local habits and resources.
Access to credit: DWF has developed opportunities for access to small credits
for poor families to help them undertake strengthening of their homes.
Training: The programme provides technical training to builders, organisation
and animation training to village leaders, and institutional support to communes.
Working with schools: One focus is on working with rural schools to make children
more aware of the need for prevention, to help teachers integrate the theme
into the school, and to work on making schools storm resistant.
Through the process of animation and demonstration grass roots and official attitudes are changing.
DWF works in collaboration with the Thua Thien Hué Consulting & Designing Construction Company, Hué and the People’s Committee of Thua Thien Hué province. The project builds on experience gained by DWF in flood and storm related work in Vietnam since 1989 on UNDP and Australian Aid supported projects in central and northern Viet Nam.
Support:
DWF actions in Central Viet Nam are currently supported by the EC Humanitarian
Aid Office (ECHO).
Between 1999 and 2002 by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
and the Fondation Aide Viet Nam Canada.
DW, a French NGO, has an office in Hué, Thua Thien Hué province
in Viet Nam.
Contact: Development Workshop, Vietnam
91/44A Phan Dinh Phung, Hué, Thua Thien Hué Province, Viet Nam
e-mail Tel: (84-54) 84 82 31
