Review workshop of project “Capacity building for disaster risk prevention and business continuity planning” for TYM’s members phase 3

In the morning of December 26, 2018, in Hanoi, the review workshop of project “Capacity building for disaster risk prevention and business continuity planning” for TYM members was held. The workshop was attended by Mr. Pham Xuan Hoe, Deputy Director of the Banking Strategy Institute, State Bank of Vietnam and representative of Oxfam, the sponsor for the project.

“Capacity building for disaster risk prevention and business continuity planning” is a project funded by Oxfam and approved by the Presidium of the Vietnam Women’s Union. This project was implemented in 6 TYM branches in 3 coastal provinces namely Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An from February 15, 2017 until now.
After 3 phases of the project implementation, TYM has completed 4 key activities built in the beginning:

1. Training – providing information to raise awareness of TYM’s staff and members about disaster risks and disaster response. Specifically:
• 185 staff was trained in knowledge: Actively reduce disaster risks and respond to climate change. These were the core trainers who conducted training for TYM’s center leaders and members in the next phases;
• 533 center leaders were trained in propaganda to raise awareness to proactively reduce natural disaster risks, protect the environment and respond to climate change;
• 64,601 TYM members at 1,892 centers of coastal areas were propagated and trained at least once to actively prevent natural disasters and protect the environment;

2. Assisted members to develop business plans including proactive disaster risk prevention plans
• 50 member households were supported and guided at home;
• 550 members were trained on Continuous Business Planning which took into account the risk factors of disaster.

3. Adjust credit rating tools including risk assessment criteria for risk recovery: TYM has completed a set of credit assessment tools with disaster risk factors from 01/2018 and has conducted training for staff at the project implementation branches.

4. Developed policy regulations to support those affected by climate disaster and climate change factors. Specifically, in 2018, TYM has completed the research and development of loans to support members affected by natural disasters and climate change to pilot in two branches namely Hai Hau and Quynh Luu from 01/01/2019.

The success of the project shows TYM’s right direction in diversifying its products, gaining more access to women and bringing them added values.