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Today (December 19), the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the United Nations organized the announcement of the Joint Natural Disaster Response Plan for 2025. Representatives of the United Nations Emergency Response Fund announced a support worth 2.65 million USD for Vietnam to respond to natural disasters. Mr. Nguyen Van Tien, Deputy Director of Dike Management and Natural Disaster Prevention - Photo: VGP/Do HuongThis support will be delivered to 56,000 affected people in Dak Lak, Gia Lai and Da Nang through four organizations including: the United Nations Development Program, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Childrens Fund and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Mr. Nguyen Van Tien, Deputy Director of Dike Management and Prevention Natural disasters (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) shared that the year 2025 has entered the history of natural disasters in Vietnam with unprecedented records such as storm records, tropical depression in the East Sea, the strongest storm Ragasa ever recorded in the East Sea, storm landfall rules have changed, for the first time a storm has traveled from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. 18 river routes in the North and Central regions and two routes in the South exceeded historic floods, causing serious flooding; Hue and Quang Tri experience unseasonal floods right in the middle of the dry season; Ban Ve Lake recorded floods exceeding the frequency of 5,000 years; Bach Ma peak achieved a record rainfall of 1,740 mm in a day, ranking second in the world. 419 people died, hundreds of thousands of houses collapsed and were damaged, peoples livelihoods mainly from agriculture were severely affected. The total economic loss reached 100,000 billion VND, the largest level ever. Regarding the allocation of aid money, Mr. Nguyen Van Tien said that due to limited resources, localities will be asked to organize public meetings so that people can choose the households that really need support, which the commune government will then confirm. In addition, to respond to serious floods, the coordinating agency will focus on building and upgrading a number of concentrated evacuation points such as schools and houses. culture. Ms. Pauline Tamesis, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Vietnam, shared that the 2025 joint disaster response plan has calculated that Vietnam needs more than 96 million USD to support about 1.4 million people affected by natural disasters, of which more than 660,000 are direct victims. In addition to cash support, the plan will also focus on repairing and building new houses, restoring livelihoods, repairing public infrastructure and improving capacity for local organizations, strengthening the communitys resilience, and promoting the comprehensive recovery process. It can be seen that the actual need for support from the people is huge while the amount of support so far is limited, so we need to coordinate to coordinate this amount of money effectively, Ms. Pauline Tamesis said and called on international organizations to continue accompanying Vietnam in responding to and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters.Do HuongReferences moreSee moreSee more
