This document summarizes UNDP's efforts to support the integration of climate change adaptation into agriculture sector planning and budgeting in Vietnam. It outlines UNDP's role in making climate change knowledge usable for decision-makers by providing tailored tools and building local capacity. As examples, it describes mapping tools developed for Vietnam that incorporate climate vulnerability into existing planning processes, and how disaster risk reduction tools have been adapted to include climate change analysis. It also discusses the importance of public finance reviews for demonstrating climate-relevant expenditures and raising debates around funding. Key challenges discussed include balancing long-term climate projections with near-term risk management, tailoring tools to different scales, and building on existing government systems.

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