Delegates focused on discussing the government’s orientations on climate change, mechanism for support, co-ordination of ODA funding and management and implementation of aid packages.

Donors said that Vietnam is a nation, which is dangerously vulnerable to the negative impact of climate change. Although Vietnam will soon become a nation with average incomes, it is still entitled to receiving additional funding to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In fact, it is likely that total ODA funding for Vietnam in future will come from aid packages for response to climate change. 

Participants also made some recommendations on holding policy dialogues, building an open and transparent financial mechanism for using ODA funding effectively, heighten the role of the Office of National Target Programme on Climate change and set up an agency with co-orindation from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Xuan Hoc and donors agreed that it is necessary to put a financial mechanism in place from the central down to grassroots levels to avoid wastefulness and overlapping in the implementation of projects on climate change. Currently, Vietnam is laying down guidelines on the effective use of ODA funding for activities in response to climate change.