Yen Nguyen Thi

Nguyen Thi Yen is the climate change and disaster reduction advisor of CARE International in Vietnam. She has approximately 20 years experience in areas of community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, particularly in climate and disaster vulnerability and capacity analysis (CVCA), community resilience capacity building, resilient livelihood linked with nature-based solutions, and agro-climate information services targeting poor ethnic minority women. CARE used to be one of the key founders of the NGO Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) in 2008 where she used to be the network Chair, bringing experience and lessons learned at the grassroots level to inform provincial and national dialogues and policies on gender and inclusiveness.