Organizational Structure of River Basin Planning Management Board of Vietnam

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1. Organizational Structure of River Basin Planning Management Board of Vietnam

Organizational Structure of River Basin Planning Management Board of Vietnam includes:

* The Organizational structure of the RBO includes a Chairman and Vice Chairmans .

- The Chairman of the RBO is a Vice Minister of MARD;

- The Standing Vice Chairman of the RBO is the Genenral Director of the Water Resources Department – MARD;

- The Vice Chairman of the RBO is a Leader at Department level of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

* The Standing Group, which includes regular members is responsible for standing tasks to support the RBO in addressing extraordinary issues in case the RBO could not held a meeting.

The members are the Chairman, the Vice Chairman and some other members appointed by members of the RBO.

* The RBO’s members:

- Regular members:

+ Leaders of some provincial People Committees of centrally-governed municipals and provinces in the river basin;

+ Leaders of the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Dyke Management and Flood Control (MARD), the Department of Water Resources Management (MoNRE), the Institute of Water Resources Planning (for the Red-Thai Binh River Basin Planning Management Board); Sub-Institute for Water Resources Planning and Vietnam Mekong River Commission (for the River Basins Planning Management Boards of Dong Nai and Mekong Rivers);

+ Leaders of Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development or Departments of Natural Resources and Environment of municipals and provinces in the river basin;

+ Leaders of Departments involved in water resources management under the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Fisheries, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Defence and MoNRE;

For replacement of representatives who are regular members, ministries, state agencies, PPC of centrally governed municipals in the river basin shall make a request by letter of recommendation to the Chairman of the RBO.

- Irregular members

When needed, related representatives of central and local level agencies and experts shall be invited by the Chairman of the RBO as irregular members.

* Sub-RBO and Irregular Working Groups

When necessary, RBO can propose the establishment of regular or irregular Working Groups. Members and tasks and responsibilities of these Working Groups shall be formulated by the Chairman of the RBO and submitted to the Minister of MARD for approval.

The RBO could establish Sub-RBO at sub basin level, with the participation of representatives of the provinces within the sub basin. Members and tasks of those sub-RBOs shall be decided by the Chairman of RBO.

(Article 5 of the Operation regulation of the river basin planning management board promulgated together with Decision 14/2004/QD-BNN)

2. Tasks of River Basin Planning Management Board in Vietnam

Besides tasks stipulated in the Decision of the Establishment, the RBO shall undertake the following tasks:

- To assess planning alternatives, basic investigation projects, inventory and assessment of water resources in the river basin; submit to MARD and authorised state agencies follow- up recommendations and proposals;

- To assess the outcomes of planning alternatives and make proposals to complete and/or supplement planning projects on integrated water use, drainage and irrigation, flood control and watercourse protection within river basin;

- To coordinate with relevant agencies in implementation and supervision of implementation of planning projects that are approved by authorised state agencies;

- To coordinate with relevant agencies to develop a data and information management mechanism to support the management, exploitation, utilisation and protection of watercourse within river basin;

- To propose and develop programs on capacity building and awareness raising for organisations and individuals in the river basin in terms of water management, exploitation, utilisation and protection;

- To submit to the Minister of MARD and related ministries and state agencies review reports on water resources exploitation, utilization and protection status within the river basin;

(Article 3 of the Operation regulation of the river basin planning management board promulgated together with Decision 14/2004/QD-BNN)

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