Bringing communities on board

BUILDING HOMES AND BUILDING RESILIENCE

Vietnam is one of Asia’s most vulnerable countries when it comes to the impacts of climate change – and this is especially true of rural parts of the country.
However, rural households are typically not well-equipped to identify shelter-related hazards in their communities – and this is where Habitat Vietnam’s program comes in.

JTI FOUNDATION ALLOCATION

CHF 300,000

TIMELINE

NOVEMBER 2022 – OCTOBER 2024

IMPLEMENTING PARTNER

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VIETNAM

Severe flooding in 2020 caused substantial damage across Vietnam, including the central province of Quang Nam, where this project is based.

Habitat Vietnam’s program to build disaster-resilient communities has two major strands. The first is described as a ‘Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness’ (PASSA). This form of capacity-building raises awareness of shelter-related risks in the community, and then develops relevant skills to mitigate these dangers, thereby reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

The second strand – resilient housing interventions – sees Habitat Vietnam building 40 new houses and renovating a further 60 existing homes to more disaster-resilient standards. These provide not only dwellings for a number of local families, but also disaster-resilient model houses for the community as a whole.