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Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) Unveils Pilot Women-Run Loan Scheme for Storm Resistant Housing

 ACCCRN introduces new low-interest finance program allowing city poor to reinforce or reconstruct their homes to cope with climate change impacts such as worsening storms.

 Reinforcements to homes commenced in July; expected to cover 400 homes over the coming six years in Da Nang, central Vietnam.

 Pioneering project aims to replace substandard housing stock that is in danger of being damaged or destroyed during storms or floods, and to disseminate disaster resilient design techniques more widely.

 The Da Nang Women’s Union, a Vietnamese organization with strong community networks, aims to continue to manage the project on a sustainable and independent basis in the long term.

22 August 2012, Asia – The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has launched a new lending scheme to give the urban poor in Vietnam access to low-interest financing to reinforce or rebuild their homes in the face of worsening storms associated with climate change.

The initiative, the first of its kind to explicitly target urban areas, was designed by the United States-based Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) and the Women’s Union of Da Nang city in central Vietnam.

Poor households in Da Nang have been able to apply for loans to strengthen their homes against climate risks in recent weeks, when the re-building of some homes has commenced.

The lending scheme is administered by the Da Nang Women’s Union, a Vietnamese “mass organization” with strong community networks and decades of experience leading poverty alleviation programs and microcredit initiatives.

“This new approach to helping urban populations protect themselves from the impacts of climate change is beginning in Da Nang, but plans to promote project replication in other provinces in Vietnam are already underway,” said Ngo Thi Le Mai, ISET Vietnam Country Coordinator.

“As with other projects being rolled out by ACCCRN, this pilot could also be replicated well beyond

Vietnam’s borders, to help underprivileged populations cope with the impacts of climate change elsewhere,” said Mai.

The program is expected to reach 320 households by 2013 and 400 households by end-2014. Financial support to the project from ACCCRN, itself supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, will end in 2014. Thereafter, the Women’s Union will continue to manage the fund on a sustainable and independent basis.

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Do Thi Phuong Thao resides with her two children in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang, where she makes a living from selling sticky rice. Frequent storms have exposed the vulnerability of her home by inflicting damage

i the past a d she has feared for her fa ily’s livelihood a id ou ting climate risks. Thanks to this unique new lending program, she has applied for a low-interest loan to reinforce her home by making it more resistant to storms. The design phase of this project has recently begun.

Da Nang has a long history of exposure to typhoons, storms and monsoon rains in the wet season, so residents are familiar with flooding, coastal erosion and other climate-based hazards. But as investment in urban

development increases and large numbers of rural migrants move to the city, local officials, like those in many

other ities, have e o e ore o er ed a out the u ertai risks of li ate ha ge a d the ity’s resilie e

to future conditions. Through ACCCRN, ISET has supported a process of capacity development, shared learning and strategic planning in Da Nang to enable the city to identify priority measures to build resilience. From February 2009 to September 2010, local government staff from several technical departments worked with technical support from ISET and from national ACCCRN partner NISTPASS to first understand the nature of climate vulnerability in Da Nang and then to develop an Action Plan to build climate resilience.

About ACCCRN

ACCCRN is a network of cities in Thailand, India, Indonesia and Vietnam which was launched in January 2009 and is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation as part of a US$59 million, 7-year climate change resilience

initiative. The objective is to help selected cities develop climate change risk and vulnerability strategies that will be followed by the development of a range of resilience-building interventions such as climate-resilient housing and more effective water management. ACCCRN began rolling out tangible projects on the ground in late 2010 and many initiatives are now underway. ACCCRN involves 18 partner organizations.

To view a video on ACCCRN’s work in Vietnam, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDhOU9uk-cfa

For more information on ACCCRN initiatives, please go to: http://www.acccrn.org/

For more information on the ACCCRN cities of Da Nang, Can Tho and Quy Nhon in Vietnam, please go to: http://www.acccrn.org/what-we-do/city-initiatives

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About The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission to promote the well-being of people throughout the world has remained unchanged since its founding in 1913. Today, that mission is applied to an era of rapid globalization. Our vision is that this century will be one in which globalization’s benefits are more widely shared and its challenges are more easily weathered. To realize this vision, the Foundation seeks to achieve two fundamental goals in our work. First, we seek to build resilience that enhances individual, community and institutional capacity to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of acute crises and chronic stresses. Second, we seek to promote growth with equity in which the poor and vulnerable have more access to opportunities that improve their lives. In order to achieve these goals, the Foundation constructs its work into time-bound initiatives that have defined objectives and strategies for impact. These initiatives address challenges that lie either within or at the intersections of five issue areas: basic survival safeguards, global health, environment and climate change, urbanization, and social and economic security.

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