Vietnam Country Briefing – Flood Resilience Alliance

The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is a multi-sectoral partnership focusing on finding practical ways to help communities in developed and developing countries strengthen their resilience to flood risk. Flooding is one of the most dangerous and damaging climate-related hazards, responsible for around two-thirds of all deaths and significant economic losses caused by natural disasters in Viet Nam. According to the report on Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction by the Viet Namese Disaster Management Authority (2020), the recent historic flooding event in 2020 killed 356 people, injured 876, and resulted in an economic loss of more than VND 35,000 bn (~US$1.5 bn). Plan International Vietnam is a member of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, a multi-sectorial partnership focusing on finding practical ways to help communities in developed and developing countries strengthen their resilience to flood risk. This Country Briefing provides the key details about Vietnam and the Flood Resilience Alliance main objectives for their implementations.