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1e-Newsletter |Vol 2, November 2016

e-Newsletter Vol 2

BEING READY TO RESPOND TO DISASTERS AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Business StoriesDid you know?Trainers’ corner

Project NewsUpcoming activities

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2e-Newsletter | Vol 2, November 2016

Let’s save ourselves before it’s too late!

Khai Thinh Co., Ltd. is a company specializing in carrying passengers using marine transport from

Rach Gia, Phan Thiet to Phu Quoc and Phu Quy island. The company had owned a Savanna ship, which was the most modern in Vietnam, with tonnage that could transport up to 270 passengers. The ship was designed to withstand strong wind of level 7, with young staff who were highly skilled in fire protection. But unfortu-nately, an extremely strong tornado caused a shipwreck about 1.5 knots from the Phan Thiet coast at 4:30 AM, 1st March 2014 (See more information about the sinking Savanna at https://goo.gl/QP28NV).

After this disaster risk, the company registered for the course on disaster risk management which was held by the Center for Development Support of Small and Medi-um Enterprise 2 (SMEDEC 2). “Even though the duration of the training was only 2 days, I’ve learned a lot of im-portant information to prevent disasters in the future.

Through the training, I realized that natural disasters are unpredictable and human life should be the top prior-ity for protection. Creating scenario cases and specific protection plans prioritizing the vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, and pregnant women should be done. Despite the loss of property, which was up to $ 3 million, fortunately there were no fatalities or injuries.

“There’s a need to plan for each type of disaster be-fore it occurs, you also need to have the support of the

government, and it must be rehearsed. Businesses, let’s buy disaster insurance for people and property, save yourself before it’s too late.”

Ms. Tran Thi Hanh - Director of Khai Thinh Transport Limited

Business Stories

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Did you know?Do not risk death because of a lack of understading!

“Before attending VCCI’s training course (2013), the company’s prevention options are spontaneous, awk-ward, and unorganized. After the training, we learned how to develop a professional management plan for each kind of disaster and inform and train each employ-ee. Since then, Viettronimex has not suffered any dam-age due to natural disasters, even though it spends only about 20 million VND each year to protect the assets of 300 billion VND.”

After the survey and consulting, all three supermarkets of Viettrolimex, Da Nang, have completed their own disaster risk management plans and specific options. Enterprises purchased disaster insurance and set up a disaster prevention fund. In addition to informative and training excercises, 850 m2 of total area of 6500 m2 are maintained annually. Viettronimex’s storm prevention capacity is now able to withstand storms up to level 12.

“Focus on the key points, the cost of prevention is only part of the protection of goods and property”.

Mr. Huynh Cho – Head of Human Re-source, Viettronimex Supermarket Sys-tem, Da Nang.

“Disaster risk does not leave anyone out. Entrepreneurs and businesses need to be aware of it and seriously con-sider developing detailed plans for disaster risk manage-ment and organize it. Only spending a small amount will be enough to protect a significant amount of business assets. Furthermore, it is more important to protect your employees and customers in a disaster.” According to Viettronimex Supermarket, Da Nang

Measures to prevent water overflow at manholes:

- The drainage system in the area exits the external sys-tem of the area through the manholes collecting water. These manholes should be constructed so that in case of high tides, it’s will not flow back into the inner drain-age system of the area.

- To ensure that water does not flow back into the re-gion's trench system, water blocking measure, as pic-tured below, is a simple solution in construction and operation, with a low cost and efficient to use. Busi-nesses can also refer to more manholes which are de-signed against overflow and currently on the market. See more details at https://goo.gl/ZpsJjE

75% of the areas flooded in Ho Chi Minh City were not due to high tide, but due to the drainage capacity of most rainwater drainage systems which only experi-enced 80mm rainfall (about 3 hours of continuous rain).

Local flood and tide prevention options are also one of the 10 most viewed articles in the last third quarter on http://ungphothientai.com

To effectively prevent flooding, note the following four factors:

- High altitude flooding in the factory area

- Fence (embankment) around the area

- The manholes collecting water for drainage of the area

- Door system of factory area

Measures for flood retaining walls and embankments (Fence surrounds the factory). See more at https://goo.gl/ZpsJjE


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Lecturer’s corner

“Prevention is not properly recognized. A story shared by my students that I re-member throughout my 6 years of teaching disaster risk is the story of a train-ee working in the electricity industry in Hoi An. Due to the good preparation for prevention before the storm, Hoi An should not be affected by electricity power failure when the storm occurs while electricity in some local districts is praised when overcoming problems after 3 days.” - Mr. Nguyen Dien - Vice Director of VCCI Da Nang

“Disasters are unusual and unpredictable. Therefore, not preparing well for di-saster risk prevention, is preparing for the loss of life and property of the busi-ness.” Mr. Nguyen Thanh Ngoc, Lecturer in Risk Disaster Management - Direc-tor of the Business Training Center - NEDCEN


New of the project VCCI Đà Nẵng

From 30th – 31th August, 2016, training courses were organized for 18 trainers from 4 universities and colleges. See more detail at https://goo.gl/M80BsR

6th October, 2016 a Student Forum was organized on Cli-mate Change and Disaster Risk for 100 students and lec-turers of the College of Food Industry. See more detail at https://goo.gl/WQydAn

14th October, 2016 a Stu-dent Forum on Climate Change and Disaster Risk was organized for 70 stu-dents of Dong A Univer-sity, Da Nang. See more

detail at https://goo.gl/LrIaRn

15th October, 2016 a Student Forum on Climate Change and Disaster Risk was organized for 200 stu-dents of the College of Commerce at Da Nang. See more detail at https://goo.gl/YUI32v

29th October, 2016, a Student Forum on

Climate Change and Disaster Risk was organized for 200 stu-dents of The Univer-sity of Da Nang, Uni-versity of Economics.

See more detail at https://goo.gl/sAafmc

In October 2016, VCCI conducted a survey on Small and Medium En-terprises in Vietnam with Disaster Risk and Climate Change in Central Coastal Provinces. Besides exploring how businesses respond to natural disasters and climate change, this survey was also conducted to com-pare the differences in perceptions and actions of firms who participat-ed in disaster risk education courses from 2011 to 2015

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19th October 2016, the “Raising awareness on climate change and managing disaster risks in small and medium

enterprises in Vietnam” seminar was organized with 73 students and lecturers from universities in HCMC such as: Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh

City. See more detail at https://goo.gl/p0pw0H

SMEDEC 2

26th – 27th October, 2016 TOT training on climate change and disaster risk management in small and medium en-terprises in Vietnam was organized for 15 trainers from Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natu-ral Resources and Environment, Ho Chi Minh City Open University with vocational training centers and the Viet-nam Textile and Apparel Association. See more detail at https://goo.gl/X7KAJP

27/10/2016: established Disaster Risk Man-agement Trainer Club initially with 18 mem-

bers. This is the first trainer club in this field for businesses in Vietnam. Club meetings will be held periodically to prepare hu-man resources for disaster risk manage-ment and climate change adaptation in

Vietnam in the future. Please see details at https://goo.gl/WLsT0W

CED21-22/9/2016: Training for 100 representatives from

Quang Nam Industrial Zones and enterprises in Dien Nam was organized - Dien Ngoc Indus-

trial Park, Quang Nam.

10/2016: Enterprises in Nam Cam In-dustrial Zone were supported to de-velop and finalize Disaster Prepared-ness and Prevention plans (4 versions) and strategy (1 version) for Nam Cam

Industrial Zone Management Board.

11/2016: Efforts between Quang Nam Indus-trial Zones and Dien Nam-Dien Ngoc Industrial

Park Management Boards (Quang Nam) were coor-dinated to monitor, collect information and support 8 enterpris-es to finalize their Disaster Preparedness and Prevention plans.

"From the perspective of IZ management, through training, I highly appreciate the method taught by the project lecturers, with high interactivity, focus on a practice, learner-centered approach. The lecturers did not use jargon, but used practical ex-ercises and examples from real business and group discussions, direct interactions, which is a good method of training and brings good results. Although learners have different backgrounds and come from different companies and departments, it was still possible to discuss and contribute to the specific plans. Although the training took place during only 1 day, I think that if the enterpris-es had better preparation, the training time can be shortened while efficiency is still ensured. Managers will gradually learn and apply this method to our own training courses in our Indus-trial Parks.” Mr. Huynh Thanh Tong, Head of Management Board of Quang Nam Industrial Parks.

30/9/2016: The Management Board of Quang Nam Industrial Park cooperated with Dien Nam - Dien Ngoc Industrial Park, Fire Prevention, Fight-ing and Rescue Police Department to organize the fire prevention and fire fighting techniques integrated with Disaster preparedness and prevention and Search and Rescue for 18 enterprises with nearly 300 employees at Dien Nam - Dien Ngoc Industrial Park to raise awareness and responsibility.


Upcoming activities

VCCI

In 12/2016, VCCI organized a forum on climate change and disaster risk man-agement for 150 delegates from enterprises and relevant organizations in Da Nang. This was the second one in a series of four workshops on this topic, which was part of the preparation for the White Paper on the response of businesses to disaster risk and adaptation to climate change.

From November to December 2016: VCCI conducted in-depth interviews with a number of enterprises on responses to climate change adaptation. The re-sults of the interview provided input for the White Paper on the responses of businesses to disaster risk and climate change adaptation.

SMEDEC2

A continuation of the workshop on “Raising awareness on climate change and Disaster Risk Management in SMEs in Vietnam for university students in Ho Chi Minh City.” In addition, the second meeting of the Disaster Risk Manage-ment Trainer Club for enterprises will be held. Short films will be developed as a communication activity to the business community through VTV.

CED

Complete training activities and work with IP Management Boards (50% of the project completed). Upcoming activities will include translating and launching the English website of http://ungphothientai.com to provide infor-mation to organizations and enterprises in the region, as well as prepare for the volume 3 of the e-newsletter

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