STORY HIGHLIGHTS

- In disaster-prone central Vietnam, community-based disaster risk management puts local villages and communities at the center of preparedness efforts.
- The Government of Vietnam is spending $18.5 million on community preparedness training, drills and physical infrastructure construction chosen by communities across 100 communes in 10 provinces.
- The training, infrastructure and public awareness raising efforts are increasing the resilience of local communities to disaster events such as floods, droughts and typhoons.
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