MONRE (2008), Project on investigating, identifying causes and assessing impacts of natural disasters (storms, floods) on the environment and proposing immediate and long-term measures to prevent, respond and overcome pollution in crowded/flood diversion/flood drainage areas and flood-frequently affected areas;
IMHEN (2010), Guidance on assessing climate change impacts and identifying adaptation measures;
IMHEN and UNDP (2015), Vietnam Special report on Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (SREX);
Care International (2015), Guidelines on Community Based Disaster Risk Management;
Dinh, D.T & Le, T.H (2015), Quantitative assessment of post-disaster damages in the context of climate change: Case study in Hue province;
Institute of Environmental Management, VEA (2016), Study on selection criteria and responsibilities of monitoring, assessment and measurement units to collect data, evidences and compensation record of environmental damages.
Report on Viet Nam disaster for the Annual National Disaster Risk Reduction Conference (2018, 2019, 2020);
Dang, K.K & Nguyen, L, H (2018) Assessment of financial risks, damages and losses caused by climate change in Vietnam, UNDP technical report preparing for the Vietnam Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Report;
Dang, K.K & Chi, D.K (2019), Developing and testing a framework for measuring climate change related loss and damage in Viet Nam’s agricultural sector, An UNDP, FAO and Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development technical report;
Daily damage report during disaster, world damage news upload on website by Central Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (CCNDPC);
Nguyen, T.T (2020), Research on the theoretical and practical basis, proposing an assessment method for losses and damages caused by climate change in Vietnam.
National Climate Change Strategy issued by the Government (2011)
National Plan on implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change (2016);
National Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction til 2020 (2017);
Resolution on sustainable development in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta adaptive to climate change (2017);
Target program on climate change adaptation and green growth 2016-2020 (2017);
National Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction til 2020 (2019);
National Adaptation Plan (2020).
Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.:
Personal Income Tax (2007) and Corporate Income Tax (2008);
Law on natural disaster prevention and protection (2013): Establishing Natural Disaster Prevention Fund;
Decree 94/2014/NĐ-CP on Disaster Risk Reduction Fund issued by the Government;
Law 106 on amending and adding a number of articles to Law on Value Added Tax, the Law on Special Consumption Tax (SCT), and the Law on Tax Management (2016);
Decree 158.ND-CP on Public Asset Insurance (2017);
Decree 58/ND-CP on Agricultural Insurance (2018);
Decree 13/2019/ND-CP regulating policies for Science and Technology Enterprises (2019);
Revised Law on Natural disaster prevention and protection and Law on Dyke management (2020).
Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:
Personal Income Tax (2007) and Corporate Income Tax (2008);
National strategy on natural disaster prevention and mitigation toward 2020 (2007);
Law on natural disaster prevention and protection (2013): Establishing Natural Disaster Prevention Fund;
Law 106 on amending and adding a number of articles to Law on Value Added Tax, the Law on Special Consumption Tax (SCT), and the Law on Tax Management (2016);
Resolution 76/NQ-CP issued by the Government on natural disaster prevention and protection (2017);
Decree 160/2018NĐ-CP detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Disaster Risk Reduction (2018);
Decree 50/2020/NĐ-CP on receiving, managing and using international emergency aid to relieve and recover consequences of natural disasters (2020).
Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:
National strategy on natural disaster prevention and mitigation toward 2020 (2007);
Law on natural disaster prevention and protection (2013);
Resolution 76/NQ-CP on natural disaster prevention and protection (2017);
Establishment of Disaster Risk Reduction Partnership under Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (2019);
Communication through TV, Facebook, Website: news, interviewing, TV gameshow.
Transformative actions (which could include any such actions already mentioned above):
Law on natural disaster prevention and protection (2013): Establishing Natural Disaster Prevention Fund;
Law on Personal Income (2007);
National strategy on natural disaster prevention and mitigation toward 2020 (2007);
Law on Corporate Income (2008);
Law on Special Consumption Tax (2008);
Resolution 76/NQ-CP on natural disaster prevention and protection (2017);
Communication through TV, Facebook, Website: news, interview, TV gameshow.
Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):
Reconstruction of historical climate databases including data rescue from old paper records to support climate information services.
Use of space technologies in systematic observations and geospatial analyses.
Establishment of a baseline on non-economic and social loss and damage, as well as regarding culture, territory, indigenous knowledge systems, ecosystem services.
Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.
Setting up a registry/Mapping of at-risk populations to assess sea level rise induced relocation costs for coastal communities.
Analyses of data and information (including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):
Development of local to national climate change scenarios and production of projections of climate risk.
Conduct of pilot loss and damage assessments for certain key agricultural commodities which are vulnerable to climate change, such as rice, aquaculture, and fruits.
Construction of multivariate impacts and loss databases to support assessments and reporting including through the use of bigdata methods.
Design of shared database systems to support different ministries and other stakeholders in the country including data collection, storage and sharing protocols and policies.
Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.
Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
Methods for automated and semi-automated inventorying of infrastructure and assets such as involving geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence.
Estimation and outreach on future climate change risks to inform investor decisions.
Development of standardized set of risk assessment guidelines for community/subnational level to prepare and maintain inventories of at-risk assets.
National-scale site characterization to support hazard mapping, zoning and other land use planning.
Conduct the river basin wide information comprehensive project for disaster data collection and implementation.
Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:
Setting up cross-ministerial/sectoral coordination mechanism for the dissemination and linking warnings with early action, and the deployment of emergency assistance for communities.
Linking national systematic observations and monitoring to regional and global efforts (for relevant variables, hazards and systems).
Development of protocols (legal, social, financial, institutional) for relocation to ensure effective buy-in of all stakeholders.
Development of alternative livelihood programs, livelihood transformation programs, and vocational training for coastal communities and other at-risk population groups.
Development of infrastructure and plans for relocation/resettlement of households and communities from frequently affected areas.
Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.
Development of funding proposals related to the strategic workstreams of the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee.
Optimal design of sustainable public works (drainage, transportation and other critical and protective infrastructure).
Optimizing land use based on available resources (e.g. water resources, energy, etc).
Optimizing financing between different measures to address risk comprehensively/trade-off analyses in deciding on balance between investment in preemptive measures and measures to address residual risk.
Protection of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
Sustainable landscape management including nature-based solutions.
Conduct the river basin wide information comprehensive project for disaster data collection and implementation.
Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):
Design of combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
Design and financing of social protection measures.
Development of different insurance mechanisms.
Design of national trust/contingency/recovery funds.
Development of national finance instruments (bonds, etc).
Development of regional finance instruments (regional risk facilities, etc).
Development of legal instruments to manage planned migration.
Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.
Other activities not covered by the above entries:
Loss and damage assessment framework for certain key economic sectors;
Loss and damage assessment framework for the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta.
Identifying and forecasting trend of L&D caused by climate change in Vietnam;
Developing process and methods to assess the L&D caused by climate change in accordance with the condition of Vietnam;
Researching L&D assessment models to suit the condition of Vietnam;
Piloting L&D assessment caused by climate change in Vietnam;
Developing flood maps and prepare flood and flood prevention plans for downstream areas of key reservoirs in the event of emergency flooding and dam failure;
Strengthening the operation of the system of natural disaster monitoring and warning, and risks caused by climate change for agricultural production activities;
Investing in building natural disaster early warning systems for reservoirs/land slide area to actively respond to climate change;
Investing in the construction, repair and upgrade to ensure safety of reservoirs, dykes, and natural disaster prevention works at high risk of vulnerability due to the impacts of climate change;
Developing plans for natural disaster prevention and fighting; identify measures to respond to natural disasters and overcome consequences of natural disasters at all levels;
Community-based disaster risk management, using local people's knowledge in disaster prevention;
Strengthening the capacity to prevent storms, major floods and extreme floods in river basins nationwide;
Consolidating and building works to combat riverbank and coastal erosion in key and urgent areas.