Vietnam's slow emergency: 4 lessons learned from drought response

By // 07 December 2016

El Niño has subsided and Vietnam is slowly recovering from a devastating drought. But development professionals are still working out how the lower-middle-income country can improve links between humanitarian aid and development assistance, why local politics are crucial in future climate change response, and what role rice will play in the Vietnam of tomorrow.

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  • Kelli Rogers

    Kelli Rogers is an Associate Editor for Devex. Based on the U.S. West Coast, she works with Devex's team of correspondents and editors around the world, with a particular focus on gender. She previously worked as Devex’s Southeast Asia correspondent based in Bangkok, covering disaster and crisis response, resilience, women’s rights, and climate change throughout the region. Prior to that, she reported on social and environmental issues from Nairobi, Kenya. Kelli holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and has since reported from more than 20 countries.

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