Overview and takeaway points: In 2011, the Da Nang Woman’s Union started a program to help low income families fortify their houses, so that when typhoons and flooding occured, these households will be more prepared. Often a house is the single most valuable asset a family owns, and they can suffer great economic loss if that house is damaged in a typhoon or flood, both of which occur frequently in Da Nang. ISET senior scientists, in collaboration with Hue University, have co