Japanese Government has recently signed a non-refundable aid for Vietnam to implement the project of enhancing educational capacity of disaster risk reduction for schools and community in the coastal province of Quang Nam (2nd year) with a budget of over 200,000 USD.
The project area is Dien Ban District, Hoi An City, Duy Xuyen District, Thang Binh District, Tam Ky City and Nui Thanh District, the local areas of Quang Nam province.
The project will implement activities towards the effective implementation of administrative mechanisms to improve educational capacity of disaster risk reduction for schools and community. Educate about disaster risk reduction in schools, in particular, the focus point are the model schools for disaster risk reduction and the implementation of disaster risk reduction in community based on the achievements of the first year .
Education of disaster prevention or technology transfer of disaster prevention in the community is based on the experience and the lessons that Japan has gained from reality of a country suffering from many disasters.