community-based disaster risk management and the media media kit
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chapter 5. country CBDRM case studies<br />
• The increase in involvement of local government in DM<br />
initiatives.<br />
• The number <strong>and</strong> impact of initiatives implemented as a<br />
result of increased coordination.<br />
• The development of plans <strong>and</strong> structures for enhancing<br />
coordination around CBDM.<br />
• The increase in underst<strong>and</strong>ing of CBDM by national<br />
level government.<br />
• The incorporation of policy support for CBDM in<br />
government legislation.<br />
Vietnam<br />
CASE STUDY 1<br />
Development Workshop France Initiatives in Thanh<br />
Thuy Chanh Village<br />
Thuy Thanh Commune<br />
Married at <strong>the</strong> age of 17, Madam Phan Thi Yem assures<br />
us that this was not considered young at <strong>the</strong> time, but life<br />
was really hard - diffi cult to express how hard. To begin<br />
with, <strong>the</strong> young couple were farmers. Then her husb<strong>and</strong><br />
went off in 1963 to fi ght in <strong>the</strong> Resistance. He was killed<br />
in May that year in a ghastly massacre. This was a terrible<br />
blow, leaving her with 5 young children to care for, <strong>the</strong><br />
eldest 13 <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> youngest only 3 years old. With meager<br />
savings from making straw hats, like o<strong>the</strong>rs in <strong>the</strong> village,<br />
she was able to pay for her children to attend school. But<br />
once basic needs were met, she could only afford to lie<br />
in a poorly maintained bamboo shelter. Using savings<br />
scraped toge<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong> with manual help from cousins <strong>and</strong><br />
neighbors, she managed to build a cement block house<br />
with a tin roof, but no reinforcement, only to fi nd herself<br />
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