Jenty Kirsch-Wood UNDP Viet Nam, September 2017

1. SUPPORTING THE INTEGRATION
OF ADAPTATION INTO
AGRICULTURE SECTOR
PLANNING AND BUDGETING IN
VIET NAM
Jenty Kirsch-Wood
UNDP Viet Nam, September 2017

2. Outline
■ Integration is easier said than done- and this is a work in progress
■ UNDP’s role is often to make climate change knowledge usable
■ Some examples from Viet Nam
■ Why are finance reviews important?
■ Key learning and challenges in Viet Nam
■ Future Directions

3. Climate change
decision making is not
always easy

4. So be clear about aim and audience of integration:

5. UNDP’s role is often to help make climate
change knowledge usable
 Climate data in a format non-specialists can understand
 Easy to use tools (ie: don’t say “do a vulnerability analysis”
or “assess cost benefits” and not give a means to do that
easily)
 Tools that are tailored to the regular planning cycle (do
not expect to change the whole planning cycle)
 Tools that use government’s own data
 Capacity building on how to use those tools

6. Example Viet Nam: Build on existing planning systems
 Maps, tools and manual specifically
tailored to take into account climate
vulnerability at each step of the
government agriculture planning
cycle
 Working on specific policy
recommendations on how to
upgrade systems and provide low-
regret option to take into account
current climate change science
2. Investment
preparation
1. Master
planning
3-Gvt
Programme
design
4 –
Implementation
5 – Operation &
Maintenance
6. Proposal for
rehabilitation/
upgrading
Monitoring
&
Evaluation
Current cycle for planning of rural
development within provinces in Viet Nam

7. Inter-active database:
Land-use plus vulnerability of irrigation, embankment and road construction (Hoa Binh City, 1:50,000)

8. Example Viet Nam: Build on what exists
■ Disaster risk reduction tools and community mechanisms are often a very useful
tool to build-in adaptation analysis. In Viet Nam we have built climate change into
existing disaster participatory appraisal processes at commune level
■ Spend time finding the right interlocutors: Partnerships with Ministries of Agriculture,
Planning and Finance are essential.
■ Make data updatable: Otherwise after a year it will sit on a shelf.

9. Why are finance reviews important?
■ Help show how some current
investments (ie: in DRR and dyke
management) are climate change
relevant
■ Can raise debate on funding across
ministries/ science versus hard-ware
etc
■ Will be increasingly required by key
international funding sources such as
GCF (to show Government co-finance)

10. Our CPEIR learning curve
With each phase Government
interest is growing and quality
is improving. Couldn’t have
done a perfect study first time

11. Methodology considerations:
– Designing the scope of analysis (e.g., at what stage is a project/program tagged in the
budget process, which programs to be tagged, allocations only?)
– Methodology for identifying climate change and/or green growth activities (e.g. how to
cope with partial CC projects, or co-ben) ;
– Level of granularity
– Classifying expenditures (e.g., flexible approach or through a detailed typology of type of
intervention)
– Clear reporting processes
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12. Objective Theme
M 1– Energy Efficiency
M 2– Lower-Carbon and Resilient Energy Generation, Transmission and Distribution
M 3 - Clean Industrial Production
M 4 – Clean and Resilient Urban Development and Construction
M 5 - Sustainable Transport
M 6 - Waste Management and Treatment
M 7 – Sustainable Agriculture and Livestock
M 8 – Sustainable Forest Management
M 9 – Public Health and Social Services
M 10 – Irrigation
M11 – Water Quality and Supply
M12 – Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture
M13 – Biodiversity and Conservation
A 1 – Enhanced Climate Information, Early Warning and Hydromet systems
A 2 – Disaster Risk Reduction
A 3 – Public Health and Social Services
A 4 – Irrigation
A 5 – Water Quality and Supply
A 6 – Sustainable Transport
A 7 – Lower-Carbon and Resilient Energy Generation, Transmission and Distribution
A 8 – Sustainable Agriculture and Livestock
A 9 – Sustainable Forest Management
A 10 – Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture
A 11 – Biodiversity and Conservation
A 12 – Clean and Resilient Urban Development and Construction
A 13 – Coastal Protection
A 14 – River Management (including addressing saline intrusion)
A 15 – Waste Management and Treatment
Mitigation
(M)
Adaptation
(A)
CC – GG D – Climate
Change and Green
Growth Delivery
Example Viet Nam’s Themes/Typology
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14. Key Learning and Challenges in Viet Nam
■ Tools for adaptation decision making should help promote sound risk management (within
buffers/margins) not perfectly predict the future
■ One size does not fit all. Farmer level tools are generally not helpful to national level planners and
vice versa
■ Need to be specific: what aspect of climate change are you trying to reflect at what scale
■ Need to realistic in expectations: Avoid over-confidence in data
■ Build on government systems: Stand-alone external processes most likely will not be taken up- even
if they are “better” and “more accurate”
■ Recognise that everyone is learning: Tools need to evolve over time, and be able to integrate
improvements in climate data & methodologies.
■ Public expenditure reviews can help make climate change tangible to government

15. Thank you.
Questions and comments?
Jenty Kirsch-Wood, UNDP Viet Nam, jenty.kirsch-wood@undp.org