Digital flood evacuation planning in Vietnam

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Summary

ISET-International (ISET) worked with the local government and provincial agencies to develop detailed evacuation maps and plans for response scenarios corresponding to the three existing early warning system (EWS) flood alert levels , identifying:

• when the evacuation process will be triggered;
• who will need to be evacuated and to where;
• contact lists;
• plans for supporting vulnerable individuals, such as the elderly, pregnant/nursing women, children, people with critical illnesses/disabilities, and the poor.

The information was integrated into a disaster risk management (DRM) software system, built and administered by the provincial government.

Digital flood evacuation planning in Vietnam (PDF)