Endline Evaluation Report: Children Centered Landslide and Flood Recovery (CCR) in Lao Cai (Yen Bai) Province, Vietnam (2025)

Climate-related disasters increasingly disrupt children’s safety, learning, and well-being in Vietnam, highlighting the need for integrated humanitarian and recovery interventions that place children at the centre of post-disaster response. This endline evaluation examines the Children-Centered Landslide and Flood Recovery (CCR) project, implemented by Save the Children in Vietnam in response to Typhoon Yagi (2024) in Yen Bai province.

Combining Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) with school rehabilitation, WASH improvements, learning material provision, teacher training, and psychosocial support, the project aimed to restore safe, inclusive, and resilient learning environments while strengthening household recovery. Using mixed quantitative and qualitative evidence, the evaluation finds that the project met or exceeded most log-frame targets, with particularly strong results in WASH promotion, MPCA coverage, and teacher capacity development. MPCA supported household stability and child-focused expenditures, while school-level interventions significantly improved hygiene conditions, perceived safety, and access to learning materials.

Teachers demonstrated substantial gains in competencies related to safe schools, gender and disability inclusion, psychosocial support, and disaster preparedness, with practices institutionalized into school plans. GEDSI integration enhanced safety, privacy, and participation for girls and students with disabilities, though persistent emotional distress and accessibility challenges among the most vulnerable groups underscore the need for targeted, longer-term support. Overall, the findings provide robust evidence that integrated cash assistance and education recovery interventions can deliver meaningful, sustainable outcomes in post-disaster contexts, informing future child-centred humanitarian and recovery programming.