Transcript Climate Change Adaptation in Ninh Thuan - VUFO

Practitioner’s Diary:
DRR Climate Change Adaptation and
livelihood Integration: Ninh Thuan
Provash Mondal
Oxfam in Vietnam
29 October 2008
Sub-climate regions and their vulnerability to natural disasters
Flashflood, storm, landslide, earthquake
1. Northern Uplands
2. Red River Delta
North Central
South Central
Central Highlands
Southeast
Mekong
River
Delta
Mekong River
Delta
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Storm, tropical
depression, river
flood, inundation
Storm, flood,
flashflood
Storm, flood,
flashflood, drought
Flood, flashflood
Flashflood, flood,
storm, drought
Flood, landslide,
saltwater intrusion,
storm surge, inundation
Climate Vulnerability ( sea level rise)
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Vietnam one of
the most
vulnerable
countries due to
climate change
and sea level
rise
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past 50 years,
sea level rise
increased about
20 cm
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Disaster and vulnerabilities in
Ninh Thuan
Ninh Thuan experienced severe drought
Typhoons
Flash floods and landslide
Forecasting: drought/climate changes in Ninh
Thuan are more and more serious in the future.
Sea level rise, migration
Ethnic minority, poorest province, no voice
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Oxfam’s Livelihoods Program since
2005
Horticulture
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Provide seedlings and technical training on planting
hybrid maize, cassava, bamboo for shoot, Jatropha
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Provide seedlings and techniques on planting home
garden vegetables utilized daily used water
Animal husbandry
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Provide technical training and lending breeds of black
pigs, cow and local chicken via community revolving
funds
Water management
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Establish water use groups and developing
regulations for maintenance
Support to build up public gravity water flow system,
and irrigation canal systems
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Research 2006-2007
Oxfam- Kyoto University Climate Change Research
Historical profile
Climate chance perception
Rainfall variability last 60 years
Vulnerabilities and risks
Impact of drought
Climate change impact in mountainous and coastal areas
Short term and long term recommendation
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/do
wnloads/ninh_thaun_research.pdf
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Impacts of drought on livelihood in mountainous region
Sectors
Agriculture
Impacts
Maize die
Cassava die
Cashew nut die
Consequences
Loss of crops
Animal
husbandry
Lacking grass for animals (cattle, buffalos, goats)
Lacking water
Animal getting sick, thinner, or die
Forest fire
Trees die
Unmarketable
Lack of water
Illnesses (skin rash, red eyes, diarrhoea, cold-like illnesses
malaria, diarrhoea)
Food shortage
Can not work because of crops dying
Loss
income
Forestry
Small traders
Human
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Reducing
biodiversity
Unprofitable
Famine
Jobless
of
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livelihood in coastal region
Sector
Agriculture
Impacts
Crops damaged
New diseases on grape
No fresh water for cultivation (Saline water
inundation of field or penetration into fresh
water wells)
Exhausting ground water
Consequences
Losing fresh water
sources,
abandoned/Stalinisa
tion of arable land
=> Loss of crops
Aquaculture
Not enough fresh water for control salinity
degree of shrimp ponds
Water pollution
Diseases
Lacking feed and water for livestock
New diseases, lose pregnancy
Loss of productive
Pine trees die
Can not work because of sun heat
Unprofitable
Bankrupted
Lack of water
Illnesses (cold, diarrhoea)
Food shortage
Famine
School drop-out
Animal
husbandry
Forestry
Other sectors
Human
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Loss of income
Jobless
Current Oxfam’s activities and Plan:
2008
a) Community level HVCA by Province and use climate
change lances
b) Supporting community ongoing adaptive activities
c) Revising Livelihood activities and implementation
methodology ( short term and long term perspective
d) Adding disaster risk mitigation, early warning,
emergency preparedness
e) Involve multi stakeholders involving scientist,
practitioners and Govt./leaders
f) Household- commune-province- national level linkage
g) MEL ( Baseline survey, mid-term assessment and final
assessment
Example: Disaster risk reduction
HVCA by Red Cross/ Oxfam staff using Red Cross
and Oxfam’s tools
Providing training for communities on
emergencies of disasters
Early warning system
Conduct workshops on DRR to specific identify
roles and responsibilities of each parties; local
authorities, communities and individuals
Conduct competition for communities on drawings
of their understanding about forest protection and
DRR.
Emergency Preparedness to respond frequent and
sever emergencies timely and effectively to
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Examples: community level livelihoods
adaptation activities
Adaptation
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Review Oxfam’s ongoing activities considering multisectoral livelihood intervention and gender
perspective
Advocacy on public health, water education and
other section
Support to change crop calendar, new types of and
crop reorientation
Provide training how to store and save water
Support to build individual water cisterns to store
water (rain or collected water)
Provide guidelines and materials to make roof of
cottages to reduce heat
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Policy and practices change in next 23 years
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Share experiences in
district and province
Replicate other provinces
Support district and
Province authority to
develop integrated socioeconomic plan including
DRR and climate change
Contribute to the National
Plan ( SEDP)- Aim 4 will
be working with us for
changing Province and
national Plan
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What is new?
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Livelihood activities in
two communes have
baseline survey
Staff and partners
were only involved
implementing
livelihood activities
Oxfam’s drought
response project 2005
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Have in-depth assessment,
long terms perspective
Climate change forecasting
Disaster risk reduction
included
Early warning mechanism
Staff are thinking widely
Adaptive activities wider
context, consciously doing,
modeling current coping
mechanism
Scientists, leaders,
practitioners are involved
Linking local, national and
global
Challenges:
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Changing staff and
partners idea and
believes
Experiences,
knowledge and
expertise are limited
Time: We all are busy
Money (OGB and OAus)
MEL
Advocacy, linking,
articulation
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Many Thanks
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