Assessing City Resilience: Lessons from Using the UNISDR Local Government Self-Assessment Tool in Thailand and Vietnam

This report presents the experience and findings that have come out of applying the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Local Government Self-Assessment Tool (LGSAT) in four cities in Vietnam and Thailand. This tool was applied under the framework of the Mekong Building Climate Resilience Asian Cities (M-BRACE) program supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) supported by Rockefeller Foundation.
In each of these cities—Hue and Lao Cai (Vietnam, M-BRACE) and Udon Thani (Thailand, M-BRACE) and Hat Yai (Thailand, ACCCRN)—the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International (ISET-International), the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) and the Vietnam National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies (NISTPASS) have been working for several years under programs to build city stakeholder capacity to build climate resilience by engaging directly with city stakeholders. The LGSAT was applied in collaboration with the UNISDR Asia Office in Bangkok.