DIASTER MANAGEMENT OF DA NANG 1 Structure
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- About 10 in-depth interviews with officials at departments and agencies of city, districts and wards.
During survey, gender balance is a requirement in group discussion and household in-depth interviews.
3. DIASTER MANAGEMENT OF DA NANG 3.1 Structure
Disaster Management, Rescue and Relief Steering Committee DMSC are established at the levels of Province, District and Commune and they operate in close coordination with each
other. The mechanism of theses steering committee from city to section levels is sum up as follows Figure 5:
Figure 5. The operating activities of DMSC at all levels in Da Nang At the city level, DMSC is lead by standing vice-chairman of City People’s Committee, vice-
director of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development DARD is standing deputy of Steering. Chief of secretary of steering is head of Irrigation Branch and Flood and Typhoon
Control. The other members of city DMSC are directors of departments, director of Police, head of City Army Force and 8 chairpersons of 8 districts. DMSC action follows the 5 year-directed
and the specific actions based on annually Disaster Preparedness DP plan. This DP was imitated based on the last year disaster, the disaster mitigation activities and updated
information from Station of Hydrographic Meteorology of Centre of Vietnam.
In DMSC at district level, chairperson of District People DPC takes lead of Steering. Vice- chairman responsible for economic of DPC is deputy of Steering and standing member is head
of DPC economic department. The other members are head of all DPC departments, and head
Disaster Management, Rescue and Relief Steering Committee
Da Nang City
Disaster Management, Rescue and Relief Steering Committee
District
Disaster Management Steering Committee
communeward
Sub-Committee of Disaster Management
villagesection
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of other organisms and agencies: police, force commander, National Front, Youth Union, Woman Union Secretary and chairman of wardscommunes of district.
In DMSC at ward level, chairperson of Ward People’s Committee takes lead and vice- chairperson is deputy of the Steering. The more than 10 remain members is key staffs of WPC,
such as head of police, force commander, key staff of social-culture, land survey, finance sections, head of health service station, head of other organisms: Youth Union, Woman Union
and heads of sections.
At the section level, the Sub-DMSC is lead by head of the section; the responsible of sub-unit of organisms such as Woman Union, Fatherland Front, in section are members. Sub-DMSC take
responsibility for i perform the function of state management on disaster prevention and mitigation; ii set up the DP plan and iii Assign tasks to members of the Sub-DMSC to ensure
good command of DMSC before, during and after disaster occur.
Every year, at the beginning of the main hazard typhoon and flood season it is should be in May DMSC of ward will meet to assess damage from disasters and coping experience last year
to set up the DP plan for the year. Renew all DMSC of ward and Sub-DMSC of sections. The assessing damages and lessons learnt well as new DP plan will be sent to report to DMSC of
district before the DP plan implemented.
At district level, before the rainy and typhoon May or June, DMSC of district have to report the total assessed the last disasters, damages and coping experiences and drawing the actions for
the year. Before 2007, the DP plan of district was set up annually, but from 2008, the districts set up 3-year DP plan, 2008-2010.