The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has supported various natural disaster prevention activities in Vietnam in accordance with the “Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030”. From 2007 to 2017, around 90 percent of the total damages in Vietnam were accounted by water–related natural disasters. JICA implemented several grants and technical cooperation programs for reducing water–related disaster risks, and as a part of these activities, the “Project for Strengthening Capacity in Weather Forecasting and Flood Early Warning System” by the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration (VNMHA) and JICA started in May 2018 as a year project |
