The Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment today presented the results of the analysis on the impacts on the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change (SPRCC) in advancing Vietnam’s national climate change policies during 2009- 2012.
Supporting the efforts by the Vietnamese government in combating climate change, soon after the issuance of the National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change (NTP-RCC) in 2008, JICA started to work with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) on a programne to support the Vietnamese government to implement NTP-RCC.
As a result, since 2009, the SPRCC has been implemented by the MoNRE and eight other line ministries, and with the co-financing of six development partners consisting of AfD, the Australian government, the Canadian CIDA, Korean EXIM Bank, the World Bank and JICA. The financial support is in the form of both grants and loans.
The SPRCC is a policy-based budget support programme, by which the financial support committed by the development partners will be realised upon confirmation of the performance of the policy actions that were prior-agreed between the Vietnamese government and development partners. The SPRCC has managed to work across the fields of mitigation, adaptation and the cross- cuttings under 12 sub-sectors covered by nine ministries.
Up until 2012, the total disbursements by JICA for the SPRCC are equivalent to about $450 million, out of $715 million disbursed by all SPRCC development partners.
According to Mori Mutsuya, chief representative of JICA Vietnam, after five years, it is time for JICA looked back to review and assess the results that the SPRCC has produced so far to see what has and has not been achieved over this period, what impact has been made so far, and what issues remain.
“At a glance, I am glad to mention that the SPRCC has contributed to the development of important policy papers, notably the National Strategy on Climate Change in 2011, the establishment of the National Platform on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in 2012 led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, to name a few,” Mutsuya said.
The final report of the study is expected to be available by early May.
By Bich Ngoc
Đăng ký: VietNam News