CBA Viet Nam

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CBA Viet Nam

• CBA Preparatory Workshop
• Bangkok, Thailand, Oct 2007

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Overview on SGP Viet Nam
Project locations
Projects and focal areas 76 projects / 2.8 mil
USD
Grantees Mass organisations 48 Socio-professiona
l organisations 52
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Portfolio of existing community projects

• Demonstration projects (model building capacity
  building awareness raising)
• BD
• Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
  resources of forest ecosystem (NTFPs) and agro
  biodiversity
• Documenting TK
• Capacity building projects on marketing
  biodiversity products and documenting TK
• CC
• Energy efficiency and capacity building on CC
  issues
• LDD
• SLM (agro forestry, rangeland management, water
  harvesting)
• International waters
• Coastal pollution
• POPs
• Testing technologies in treating POPs pesticides
  stockpiles and after-used containers

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Opportunities for building resilience to CC in GEB

• Thematic focus
• Community-based disaster management (flooding,
  droughts and landslides)
• Awareness raising and capacity building for local
  stakeholders on CC adaptation
• Integrated coastal zone management (sustainable
  use of water, land and biodiversity resources,
  sea level rise issues, disaster management)
• Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
  resources of semi arid ecosystem (drought
  mitigation)
• Addressing sea level rise in the Mekong region
  and coastal areas
• KM and policy link (MARD, UNFCCC focal point
  agency)

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Opportunities for building resilience to CC in GEB

• Geographic focus
• The Central Coast and the Mekong region
• Potential grantees
• Project VN/05/009
• SGP working relationship with the project grantee
  (good technical source on CC)
• Local stakeholders in the project areas (three
  provinces) have enhanced capacity on CC and are
  committed to CC work and have developed project
  concepts on CC.
• SGP having strong relationship with local
  authorities and stakeholders in the Central Coast

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Opportunities for cash co-financing

• Cash co-financing
• Local programmes/projects on agro forestry
  extension and poverty reduction
• National programmes/projects implemented at the
  local levels
• UNCCD, UNFCCC and VUSTA (NGO umbrella
  organization in Viet Nam) for capacity building
  activities
• UNDP Viet Nam project on CC adaptation (concept
  stage)
• NGOs (Oxfam, Red Cross) for disaster projects

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NSC Modification and Country Programme Development

• NSC
• Existing NSC members having expertise on
  forestry, agro biodiversity, CC (meteorological
  services), energy, land, and environmental policy
  
• New term of NSC (2007 2009) having 2 more
  experts on water and coastal and marine

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Strategies and Support for Project Development

• Key challenges in CBA implementation
• lack of national and local framework for CC
  adaptation work
• limited knowledge and capacity building of local
  stakeholders on CC issues
• limited human resource of SGP to manage
  additional work from CBA

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Strategies and Support for Project Development

• Things to do
• Develop a strategy for CBA implementation
  (strategic thematic and geographic focus) and
  eligibility criteria for project selection.
  Distributing information to SGP stakeholders
• Initiate a call for project concepts on
  newspapers and other channels
• Organize training workshops for local
  stakeholders, giving priority to potential
  grantees in the geographical priority areas, on
  identification of project issues and project
  design and proposal writing
• Capacity training for NSC members and
  collaborators on CBA to assist project proponents

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Conclusion

• CC adaptation
• a critical issue in Viet Nam, attracting special
  attention from national and local governments
• strategic issues in Government environmental
  programmes (2nd communications report on CC to
  UNFCCC) and GEF Viet Nam Action Plan for GEF 4
• CBA provides opportunities to addressing the
  critical issue of CC adaptation and thus meeting
  the expectations of national and local
  governments and communities (not many projects
  yet to address CC adaptation issues at the local
  and national levels)

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SGP Viet Nam

• Thank you.