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NARBO New RBO Members from Viet Nam (A)

Name

The Ca River Basin Management Council, Viet Nam

Activities

The Ca River Basin Management Council is in charge of giving to the two provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh advice in the following areas:

  • - making, managing and planning plans, strategies and policies related to the Ca river basin's water resource approved by the authority level.
  • - giving to relevant services, industries, cities and towns instructions of building, adding, adjusting and amending their planning in accordance with the strategic planning of the Ca river basin's water resource.
  • - protecting, exploiting and using the Ca river basin's water resource and holding forums for the combination of managing water resource management, lessening water-caused disasters in the basin, preventing and overcoming flood-caused damages.
  • - helping relevant authorities at various levels and industries equalize interests and settle water source-related disputes in the Ca river basin.
  • - building and managing data related to the Ca river basin, updating the data and coordinating collective use of the Ca river basin's water resource.
  • - carrying out education and media programmes to promote the public awareness and capabilities of water resource management and guarantee the public participation into planning making.
  • - Setting up and maintaining relations with provinces and localities related to the water resource of the Ca river basin based III Viet Nam and III Laotian provinces to form a foundation for participation into international projects on and cooperation in water resource management, exploitation, use and development.

The Number of staffs

18 persons

Annual budget

300.000.000 VND (year 2008)

Interested fields

  • - Improvement of the Ca river basin community's awareness and capabilities of water resource management.
  • - The Ca river basin's long-term water resource protection, exploitation, use and development (laws and resources for ensuring the Ca river basin's development); lessening of water-caused disasters III the basin; and prevention and overcoming of flood-caused damages.

Expectation for NARBO

  • - Training courses on improving capabilities for The Ca River Basin Management Council's key staff and chances of access to and experience exchange with river basin management organizations in other countries.
  • - Technical assistance for the Office of The Ca River Basin Management Council.