Sayaboury Integrated Hazard Mitigation Project (SIHMP)
Laos-Australia NGO Cooperation Agreement (LANGOCA)

The Laos-Australia NGO Cooperation Agreement (LANGOCA) Program aims to build on and maximise the unique strengths of NGOs; particularly in relation to their long-term experience, capacity and linkages with partner organisations and communities in Lao. The LANGOCA Program closely links NGO programs and expertise to the existing Laos-Australia Development Cooperation Strategy 2004-2010 (LADCS), in order to ensure that support to NGOs in Laos is effectively targeted to strategy development priorities. The Program will include a range of activities that aim to directly address LADCS Strategic Objective 3, to reduce the vulnerability of the poor, with a specific focus on Objective 3.1 to reduce the impact of natural disasters, and Objective 3.2 to reduce the impact of unexploded ordinance (UXOs).
In Lao PDR, the LANGOCA Program approach is based on Cooperation Agreements with four Australian NGOs (Oxfam, CARE, World Vision and SCA). The Program Goal is stated as “To reduce the vulnerability of the poor by integrating poverty reduction and crosscutting issues with DM and UXO approaches in Laos”.

Under the LANGOCA Program, AusAID is supporting the implementation of 3 following projects by Save the Children Australia (SCA) and Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC).

1. Sayaboury Integrated Hazard Mitigation Project (SIHMP) more>>
   SIHMP is being implemented in Sayaboury province of Lao PDR. The project has three components:
    

   1. Institutional Capacity building for disaster risk management in Sayaboury province
      Number of intuitional capacity building activities were carried out and the Sayaboury Provincial disaster management strategy (2009- 2020) and Sayaboury district disaster management plan has been developed. (2009 -2011). Xienghone district disaster management plan is being developed. Intuitional capacity assessments of Provincial Disaster Management Committee (PDMC) and District Disaster Management Committees in Sayaboury and Xienghone districts were done and two trainings on Disaster Risk Management Planning were conducted.

   2. Community Based Disaster Risk Reductions in 24 villages in Sayaboury and Xienghone districts
      Participatory Risk Assessments were conducted in 24 villages in Sayaboury and Xienghone districts. Community awareness raised and community level risk reduction activities have been identified. Thos community level risk reduction activities would be implemented in next few years

   3. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Sectoral development planning at provincial level
      Sectoral agencies at provincial level would integrate disaster risk reduction activities into their sectoral annual development plans. The sectoral agencies would be capacitated under SIHMP and necessary support would be provided to the key sectors in developing their integrated sectoral development plan with DRR
       

2. Disaster Risk Education for Children (DREC) more>>
    

3. Tools for Disaster Risk Assessment (TDRA) more>>
   The consortium of SCA and ADPC was established with the mutual goal of reducing the negative impacts of natural hazards on the communities living in the rural areas of Lao PDR, particularly in Sayaboury district of Sayaboury province, through application of practical and replicable community based disaster risk reduction approaches.

For more details please contact Sisira Kumar (sisira@adpc.net .