Thursday, 26 May 2016. QUY NHON – a Workshop was held with the stakeholders of the Belgian-supported program for Integrated Water Management and Urban Development in Relation to Climate Change on Community Oriented Approaches to Flood Early Warning and Risk Reduction. Representatives from the Project Coordination Units (PCUs) and relevant government departments from the three program provinces (Ha Tinh, Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan), as well as experts from the Hanoi-based Technical Support Unit (TSU) listened to the shared experiences from the recently completed project on Community Engagement in Flood Early Warning and Risk Reduction of Quy Nhon City. This project, implemented by Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International (ISET) and the Climate Change Coordination Office of Binh Dinh Province (CCCO Binh Dinh), was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation under The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) . 

On June 14, 2016 at the office of the Committee for Capacity Building and Implementing Water Sector ODA Projects, a tender opening ceremony was organised for the bidding package on Early warning information system for the Dinh river’s basin. This package is managed by the project on general management of water resources and urban development, in connection with climate change response in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan

The project “Integrated water resource management and urban planning related to climate change in Ha Tinh province)” (SRDP – IWMC) commenced in late 2013 and will conclude in 2019. In order to assess the province’s socio-economic situation and prepare a baseline for the assessment and appraisal of the project at completion, the project’s coordination committee engaged Investment and Management Consultancy Training Company Limited to conduct a survey on socio-economic conditions project area and to develop a baseline database for the monitoring and assessment of this project.