Government's policies on protection of coastal forests of Vietnam

According to Decree No. 119/2016/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, in order to protect and sustainably develop coastal forests in response to climate change, the State has many supporting policies as follows:

Expenditures on management, protection and development of coastal forests shall be derived from local government budgets according to approved plans and/or estimates, and regulations of the law on stage budget, consisting of:

- Forest inventory and statistics, and monitoring of changes in forest resources;

- Allocation and lease of coastal forests;

- Activities of management boards of coastal special-purpose and protective forests upon decision of competent state authorities;

- Propagation, education; forestry extension; improvement of capacity and awareness of roles and functions of coastal forests in coping with the climate change;

- Research and application of technical and scientific advances to the protection, use and development of coastal forests;

- Investments or supports other than those provided by the central-government budget may be made subject to actual conditions of each local region.

Administrative expenditures on contracted forest protection and regeneration of coastal natural forests shall be derived from the central-government budget:

- The support rate for contracted protection of coastal forests shall be equal to 1.5 times the average support for contracted protection of protective forests in accordance with current regulations.

- The expenditure level for regeneration of natural forests is 4 million VND/hectare for 5 years (average amount is VND 800,000/hectare/year).

- The expenditure level on preparing documents of contracting for forest protection and regeneration of natural forests shall be VND 50,000/hectare and applied in the first year to forest areas requiring protection on contractual basis.

View more details at Decree No. 119/2016/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from October 10, 2016.

- Thanh Lam -

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