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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Dear Colleagues,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am pleased to share with you an invitation to a <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Regional Climate Risk Assessment Workshop which will be hold <b>on the 27 and 28<sup>th</sup> of April in Dong Hoi</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>The Vietnam and German Red Cross Societies, supported by the Marga and Walter Boll Foundation, equip communities in Quang Binh with strategies to prepare for disasters and reduce their vulnerability to changing climatic conditions within the framework of the Community – Based Disaster Risk Management Project. Joined by the Red Cross Chapters and relevant stakeholders from all provinces in the Central region, the VNRC Regional Climate Risk Assessment Workshop is a key activity under this Project.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>This two-day event aims to build an understanding on how to further integrate climate change adaptation into existing community-based disaster risk management work in Vietnam and explore how community-based work can fit into a broad picture of the National Action Plan for Climate Change. While the first day will be allocated for discussions on the broader topics and involves a wider group of participants, the second day will be dedicated to VNRC programming in the project areas and open to limited participants within Quang Binh Province as well as facilitating government.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>This workshop will be facilitated by experts from the Department of Hydro-Meteorology and Climate Change, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment (IMHEN) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), the Center for Climate Change Study in Central Vietnam, Vietnam Red Cross, German Red Cross (GRC).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>See attached the invitation and agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>We would like to request the confirmation of your attendance to Mr. Nguyen Tien Dzung (German Red Cross) by email: </span><a href="mailto:grc.dzung@gmail.com"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>grc.dzung@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> <b>by 12:00PM, Monday, 25<sup>th</sup> April, 2014</b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Jerome Faucet</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'>German Red Cross</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Program Coordinator<br><i>Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaptation</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>68 Nguyễn Du<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hanoi - Vietnam <br>Office: <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>+84 (0) 4 3941 1215<br>Fax: +84 (0) 4 3941 1216.<br></span>Mobile: +84 (0) 169 972 0146<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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