Studier glemmer ofte at medregne religiøse organisationers medvirken i katastrofe-beredskaber. I Vietnam hjælper buddhistiske munke og nonner til, hvor de kan, men hjælpen forbliver ofte udokumenteret.
HANOI/HUE, 16. January, 2013 (IRIN): Buddhist monks, nuns and their followers have long contributed to Vietnam’s disaster relief efforts.
Sometimes equipped with canoes filled with instant noodles, woollen hats and psychosocial counsellors, this local cadre may lack standard operating procedures, but it constitutes a largely undocumented and significant disaster relief system running parallel to governmental efforts.
“Buddhist temples’ (or any religious organization’s) contribution to disaster relief is still under-studied by international donors and NGOs working on disaster response, despite their growing role in a number of places”, says Ian Wilderspin, a technical specialist on disaster risk management for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Hanoi.
However, Bui Viet Hien, a UNDP programme analyst, co-authored a 2011 study in collaboration with the Ministry of Sciences and Technology on the role of informal organizations in boosting community resilience (modstandskraft) to flooding in a district of the coastal Binh Dinh Province in south-central Vietnam.
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