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Figure 6. Disaster Mitigation House a at Hoa Hiep Nam and Flood Prevention House b at Hoa Hiep Bac
Techniques and skills
On the basis of Four-local Preparedness” principle, the district DP plans will be deployed on the each wards of district. The DP plan of wards, which are more specific tasks based on the each
condition of ward and district DP plan will be deployed to its sections. The DP command, hazard defensive measures, evacuation plans, rescue, overcome the consequences of disaster are
concretized. All of DP plan at levels deal with means boat, car, truck and arrangement of means at each important place. Human resources, the official responsible for DP and unit,
medicine, food and the shelters are recheck and ready before flood or typhoon occur.
Coping experiences and good practices
Through many years of implementation of DP activities, the controlling timely and coordinate closely between DMSC and other forces, the campaign action or even the force required to
bring people out of dangerous area as well as emergency rescue is well done in Lien Chieu district help effectively mitigation damage to human lives and properties. Especially after the
typhoon No 6 Xangsane in 2006, all of the roofs of houses, factories, schools and stations are reinforced with
ψ6 - ψ8 string of steel concretized the margin to prevent loss of roof. According to the group discussion at district, the awareness of people on the damage of natural disaster is
increasing much as it’s before. However, all DP plan mainly deal with typhoon, flood, tsunami, landslides. In fact, the hazards in
Lien Chieu not only some above but others such as drought, high tide, saline intrusion yearly threat to the human live, properties and livelihood of local people also. And, there no effective
measure to mitigation the impacts of these hazards.
3.7 Son Tra District Rescue teams:
Besides the district DMSC, there is a team disaster prevention force. This team has 50 members. And, the Son Tra district also have strongness with lot of the army forces in the area:
the border army station 252, region 3 naval force, local force at wards and the Son Tra forest wardens. According to the focus group discussion, these forces always ready to participate in
DP action in rainy and typhoon season.
Facilities
The officials of district DMSC have equipped the live vest, battery light. And, in coping with disaster, they also strengthen the rescue means and human resource from the naval army and
border army station 252.
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The facilities for official of ward DMSC rather limited, mainly the personal safety-working life vest, lifebuoy. Tho Quang ward have two boat winch system to move boat on land when
typhoon or worse weather coming. There are also 8 ox carts to carrying small boat to the safety place. With number of these means, they have to spend at least 3 day to move all of the boat to
the safety place and sometime they have not enough time to do this. The facility for the Sub- DMSC is nothing. The fishermen are lacking of live vest and communication means like walkie-
talkie. At least 50 of fishermen have no life vest, 100 in-shore and some of off-shore fishing boats have no walkie-talkie.
Techniques and skills
Annually, district organizes training and exercise on first aid and rescue for the key force. Training on safety-first for the own of fishing boats but not all fisherman are participated yet.
This activity just only like a short training course but not a exercise as supposed a real situation.
The owner of small boat and coracles, the main means of fishing of Tho Quang community are not involved in the training or exercise on the safety-first although this group is most vulnerable
because of lacking budget.
Coping experiences and good practices
Being a ward in coastal area, Tho Quang often affected by typhoon so that the government and local people have some experiences on disaster management and prevention. After the typhoon
No 6, 2006 Xangsane, they realized that disaster preparedness activity must be specific and as detail as possible after considered many measures. The most important is evacuation action.
The coast people must come to the shelters or other safe places. The food, medicine, drinking water should be available at the shelters. When bring people to the shelter, it is should pay
more attention to pregnant woman, newborn baby to help them a suitable condition. The people involved in the local force should be sure that they already to participate and can go to help
other people and family freely not to be busy with hisher family for example in emergency case.
For housing in coastline, it must be solid. So the material have to chosen carefully. The house must have firm base and pillars. The roofs, purlins should be cemented with wall. Inside the
semi-solid house, a small very solid room should be prepared to use as “family shelter” in case of the house might collapsed by strong wind. The reinforcement of house should be done with
typhoon prevention technical or it may increase the damage.
When the boats come to the safe anchorage already to avoid typhoon, they should be carefully attached. In the past, some boat were not careful attached by at least 3 anchors had hit other
boats in anchorage and made more damage for the means of the fishers.
4. SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
In Viet Nam cities are generally under the administration of province in which they are located. However Da Nang, as one of the five largest cities in Viet Nam, is under the direct control of the
central government.
Vietnam’s administrative structure consists of four levels of government: central, provincialmunicipal, district and communeward. Every level has their respective People’s
Council and People’s Committee, with People’s Committee being the executive agency of the People’s Council at each level.
The Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee oversees the management of the internal and external affairs of the Committee and the leaders of organizations under the Committee.
The municipal People’s Committee is responsible for planning, socio-economic plans, national defense, security, financial affairs, judicial activities, inspection, personnel arrangement, criminal
prevention, and administrative reform.
4.1 Planning process
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Figure 7. Planning process of SEDP
4.2 Key contents and implementation issues
