Viet Nam

This Multi-Sectoral Assessment for Recovery from Typhoon Yagi (VMSA) was conducted to assess the full extent of the impact of the typhoon in Vietnam and propose appropriate recommendations for sustainable recovery across all affected sectors.

This week’s Manchester Briefing details some COVID-19 topics that are being worked on across three research areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. The briefing summarises six research topics and details how these aim to enhance understanding of Recovery, Renewal, Resilience in the context of COVID-19.

Social inequalities lead to flood resilience inequalities across social groups, a topic that requires improved documentation and understanding.

This paper assesses why Vietnam has not been as effective in dealing with environmental and climate challenges as with the COVID-19 crisis, which are arguably different but have also many similarities.

This second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceeds anything recorded in the past two decades, since the major El Niño of 1997-1998.

The report presents an analysis carried out by the UN in Viet Nam of the social and economic impacts of the pandemic.

In this report five disaster risk reduction and early recovery interventions from the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Vietnam were assessed to identify which elements are likely to facilitate recovery from disasters. The research investigated “off-the-radar communities” which in this research are broadly defined as communities that are geographically or politically far from the centers of political power. 

This research project investigates the critical factors for educational continuity in urban floods in South and Southeast Asia.