Wednesday, Jun 19, 2019,17:42 (GMT+7)
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| A view of the Can Tho Resilience Strategy Release
Workshop on June 19. Can Tho City has partnered with 100 RC to kick off the
city’s resilience strategy PHOTO: HUYNH KIM |
CAN THO – Can Tho City has partnered with the 100
Resilience Cities (100 RC) – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation to kick
off the city’s resilience strategy, which is the first to be geared toward a
fast-growing city in the Mekong Delta.
Speaking at a Can Tho Resilience Strategy
Release Workshop on June 19, Dr. Nguyen Hieu Trung, chief resilience officer
for Can Tho, said that the Can Tho resilience strategy is aimed at addressing
challenges and difficulties related to environmental degradation, flooding, climate change, urbanization and unemployment.
Can Tho vice chairman Dao Anh Dung told the
Saigon Times that the Rockefeller Foundation has given US$100 million in
aid to 100 cities worldwide, including Can Tho, to conduct the program.
“The completion of the strategy is the result
of two years of hard work by the relevant departments and agencies in
cooperation with experts from institutes and schools, firms and individuals in
Can Tho City,” Dung said. The resilience strategy is expected to turn Can Tho
City into a clean, safe, green and prosperous city.
Lauren Sorkin, regional director of Asia
Pacific at 100 RC, said that Can Tho as a fast growing city will play a leading
role in catalyzing the urban resilience movement in the Mekong Delta.
The strategy highlighted the fact that the
city has pulled its weight to ensure resilience and carefully mapped out solutions
and activities to address the challenges.
“This long-term strategy will help the city
fulfill its target of developing its river ecosystem, which is vulnerable to
climate change,” Sorkin said.
Trung said that the strategy covers four
fields: healthcare and welfare, infrastructure and environment, economy and
society and policies and systems.
For healthcare and welfare, the city will
ensure its residents have stable incomes and live in a safe and clean
environment. On policies and systems, it will build policies and plans
systematically to cope with pressure and obstacles.
100 RC helps the participating cities become more resilient to social,
economic and physical challenges that are increasing in the 21st century.
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