Quyết định 432/QD-TTg

DECISION

APPROVAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF VIETNAM PERIOD 2011-2020

THE PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the Law on organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;

Pursuant to Decision No. 153/2004/QD-TTg dated August 17, 2004 of the Prime Minister promulgating the strategic orientation for sustainable development in Vietnam (Agenda 21 of Vietnam);

At the proposal of the Minister of Planning and Investment,

DECIDES:

Article 1. Approving the sustainable Development Strategy for the period 2011-2020 with the essential contents as follows:

I. VIEWPOINT, OBJECTIVES AND PRIORITY ORIENTATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PERIOD 2011 – 2020.

1. Viewpoint

- Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. Maximizing the human factor as the role of subject, key resources, and the goal of sustainable development, meeting the growing physical and spiritual demand for all strata; building a strong and rich nation, a civilized, fair and democratic society, and an independent and self-reliant economy and actively international integration for the country's sustainable development.

- Sustainable development is required throughout the development process of the country; closely, reasonably and harmoniously combining between the economic development with social development and protection of natural resources and   environment, securing national defense, security and social order and safety.

- Sustainable development is the cause of the whole Party and the people, all levels of government, Ministries and local authorities, agencies, enterprises, social organizations, communities and every citizen.

- Creating conditions for people and communities in society to have equal opportunities for development and access to the common resources, participation and contribution and benefit, creating the good material, knowledge and culture for future generations. Thriftily and efficiently using natural resource, particularly non-renewable resources, preserving and improving the living environment, building a learning society, an environmentally friendly lifestyle, sustainable production and consumption.

- Science and technology is the base and motivation for sustainable development of the country. The modern, clean and eco-friendly technology should be widely used with priority in manufacturing industries.

2. Objectives

a) General targets

Sustainable and efficient growth coupled with progress, social justice, protection of natural resources and the environment, maintaining social and political stability, firmly protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the country.

b) Specific targets

- Ensuring stable macro economy, especially the major balances; maintaining food security, energy security and financial security. Converting the growth model to harmonious development between the breadth and depth, step by step implementation of green growth, low-carbon economic growth. Thriftily and efficiently using all resources.

- Building a civilized, fair, democratic, disciplinary and unanimous society, an advanced culture imbued with national identity; happy, comfortable and advanced families; people with comprehensive development on intelligence, ethics, body, mind and creative capacity, civic consciousness, observance of law. Education and training, science and technology as an important developing motivation. Keeping social and political stability, firmly protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the country.

- Reducing the negative impacts of economic activity on the environment. Reasonably exploiting and efficient using natural resources, particularly non-renewable resources. Preventing, controlling and remedying environmental pollution and degradation, improving environmental quality, protecting and developing forest, conserving biodiversity. Limiting effects of natural disasters, effectively adapting to climate change, particularly sea level rise.

3. Indicators to monitor and evaluate sustainable development in Vietnam for the period 2011 – 2020

a) General indicators

- Green GDP

- Human Development Index (HDI)

- Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

b) Economic indicators

- Incremental Capital- Output Ratio (ICOR).

- Productivity of social labor

- Contribution proportion of productivity of general factors in the overall growth rate

- Reduction in energy consumption to produce a unit of GDP.

- Percentage of renewable energy in energy using structure

- Consumer Price Index (CPI)

- Current account balance

- State Budget deficit

- Government Debt.

- Foreign debt

c) Social indicators

- Poverty rate

- Unemployment rate

- Labor rate trained and working in the economy.

- Coefficient of inequality in income distribution (Gini coefficient).

- Sex ratio at birth.

- Number of students per 10,000 inhabitants

- Number of Internet subscribers per 100 inhabitants

- Ratio of people who receive social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance.

- The number of traffic-related dead per 100.000 inhabitants

- Rate of commune recognized to achieve the new countryside criteria.

d) Indicators on natural resources and environment.

- Rate of forest cover

- Rate of land protected and maintained biodiversity.

- Area of land degradation

- Reduction of groundwater and surface water

- Rate of day with the concentration of toxic substances in the air exceeding the permitted standards.

- Rate of urban centers, industrial zones, export processing zones and industrial clusters treating solid waste and waste water and conforming to the technical standards or regulations respectively.

- Rate of solid waste collected, treated in conformity with the national technical standards or regulations respectively.

(Details of the monitoring and assessment indicators of sustainable development in Vietnam during 2011-2020 are specified in the Appendix issued together with this decision).

4. The preferred orientation for sustainable development in the period 2011-2020

a) Economy

- Maintaining sustainable economic growth, gradually implementing green growth and development of clean and renewable energy.

Improving the quality of growth and ensuring macroeconomic stability, especially financial and monetary policies. Converting the growth model mainly by the width to harmonize between the width and the depth on the basis of exploitation and efficient use of natural resources and the scientific achievements and advanced technologies to increase labor productivity and improve the competitiveness of products and services, improve the efficiency of the economy in general and efficiency of the investment capital in particular.

Developing and implementing strategies for green growth and ensuring economic development in low-carbon direction. Using energy thriftily and efficiently; developing clean and renewable energy to ensure national energy security. Gradually marketizing the price of energy, increasing the proportion of clean and renewable energy in total energy consumption in Vietnam. Developing the environmental economic accounting system and adding environmental and social aspects into the framework of system of national account (SNA).

Industrial sustainable development to industrial structure, technology and equipment to ensure the eco- friendly principle, positively preventing and treating industrial pollution, developing the "green industry", prioritizing the development eco-friendly industries, technologies and products; promoting high-tech development in large cities. Gradually developing the environmental industry.

- Performing sustainable production and consumption.

Promoting widespread adoption of cleaner production to improve the efficient use of natural resources, raw materials, energy, water while reducing emissions and limiting the increasing degree of pollution, protecting nature environmental quality, human health and ensuring sustainable development.

Developing the civilized, harmonious and nature-friendly consumption culture. Gradually implementing the eco-labeling, green procurement. Developing eco-products market and community initiatives on production and sustainable consumption. Applying the policies to adjust the unreasonable consumption behavior.

- Ensuring food security and sustainable rural and agricultural development.

Ensuring food security on the basis of protecting 3.8 million hectares of rice land, ensuring the supply of food, nutritional requirements and the ability to access food of people according to the conclusions of the Politburo and Resolution of the Government.

Agricultural and rural restructuring towards industrialization, promoting the strength of each region, developing the production of agricultural products and goods with quality and efficiency; associating the production with the domestic and international market to improve the efficient use of natural resources (land, water, forest, labor and capital); increasing income per unit hectare of cultivated land for a workday, improving the lives of farmers, sustainably developing the handicraft village. Accelerating the application of scientific and technical and technological advance in production, processing, preservation, especially biotechnological application to create plant varieties and animal and production processes of high productivity. Adjusting and supplementing the agricultural, forestry and fishery development planning in each economic region and inter-region towards sustainable development, linking production to markets, material area to materials industry.

Sustainable rural development must include 4 processes: industrialization, modernization, urbanization, population control, ecological and environmental protection. Focusing on the construction of technical infrastructure and improving the quality of life of rural people comment in terms of democratic, environmental, social, cultural and economic aspects. The process of urbanization and modernization of rural areas must conform with the criteria of new rural construction, reducing the gap between urban and rural areas of the material and spiritual life.

- Sustainable development of regions and localities

Focusing on priority over the development of key economic regions, with capacity of breakthrough and development leading while paying attention to assisting the less developed regions with more difficult conditions to create a certain balance in space development, gradually narrowing the social gap and eventually reducing the economic disparities between regions and localities. The key economic development regions shall play a leading role to push the mountainous, deep-lying, remote, border and island area with more difficult conditions. Developing appropriate mechanisms and policies so that all regions in the country shall develop and promote the advantages of each region and create regional link.

b) Society

- Speeding up the poverty alleviation in a sustainable manner, creating sustainable jobs, making progress and achieving social justice; performing the social security policies.

Prioritizing resources to reduce poverty and improve living conditions for people in the most disadvantaged areas. Supporting and create conditions for poor and poor households to have housing, materials and means for production; economic development through the transformation of economic structure as well as plant and animal structure with high economic value, development of goods production; support for cultural and vocational learning.

Transformation of economic structure as well as labor structure associated with trade development to create sustainable jobs. Supporting trade learning and creating jobs for beneficiaries of social welfare and the poor, especially in rural and urban areas.

Making progress and social justice. Creating equal opportunities to have access to development resources and enjoyment of basic services, social welfare; adopting appropriate policies to limit the differentiation between the rich and the poor, reducing the increase in disparity in living standards of regions and social groups.

Developing the social security system diversely and efficiently. Speeding up the implementation of social welfare programs, assisting the poor and vulnerable subjects. Proactively preventing, reducing and remedying risks due to the economic, social and environmental impacts. Strongly developing the insurance system, encouraging and facilitating the employee to have access and take part in types of insurance. Expanding forms of assistance and social relief, increasing the coverage, especially for the disadvantaged and vulnerable subjects.

- Stabilizing the scale and improving and increasing population quality.

Stabilizing the scale of population at a reasonable level, proactively adjusting the speed of population growth, maintaining low fertility rate and well resolving the problems of population structure.

Raising the quality of the population, improving reproductive health, mother and child health, developing physical strength and stature of Vietnamese people to improve the quality of human resources in service of the industrialization modernization of the country; gradually improving the race quality and increasing healthy life expectancy of Vietnamese.

- Developing culture in harmony with economic development, building and developing Vietnamese families.

Promoting these good values ​​of national culture, while absorbing the quintessence of human culture, dealing with the relationship between the economic and cultural relation so that the culture is really the social spiritual foundation and a driving force of social and economic development and international integration. Building lifestyles and healthy cultural environment. Building Vietnamese human personality, especially among the younger generation of the ethics, lifestyle, intelligence, bodyl, ethnic self-esteem, social responsibility and sense of law observance. Effectively preventing some social evils such as drugs, prostitution.

Building Vietnamese family progressively and happily to be a real home for everyone, a healthy cell of society. Well performing guidelines, policies and laws on marriage and family, gender equality, preventing domestic violence and the penetration of the social evils into families. Inheriting, preserving and promoting good traditional values ​​of Vietnamese families associated with building advanced values of family in a developed society.

- Sustainably developing urban centers, building new rural areas, reasonably distributing inhabitants and labor in the region.

Gradually building a Vietnamese complete urban system under the urban network model with social and technical infrastructure which is appropriate, synchronous and modern; with good environment and quality of urban life, advanced urban architecture, rich national character, preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values in line with each stage of development of the country. Stably and sustainably developing urban center on the basis of suitable space organization; rationally using natural resources, land, energy saving, protecting environment and balancing ecology.

Building and consolidating the countryside under new rura criteria in accordance with the characteristics of each region; preserving and promoting the unique culture of Vietnamese rural areas. Appreciating the urban-rural linking. Encouraging the development of medium and small-sized cities; reducing the differences between rural areas and regions with urban centers, between residential communities and creating sustainable social inclusion.

Well managing migrant workers to promote inhabitant and labor distribution, reasonably between regions.

- Improving education and training quality to enhance the intellectual and professional level in line with to the development requirements of the country, regions and localities.

Basically and comprehensively renovating Vietnamese education towards standardization, modernization and international integration. Synchronously  Implementing solutions to improve the quality of education and training, renovating programs, contents and methods of education and training at all educational levels in order to improve the quality of comprehensive education for the younger generation, strengthening practicality, practice skills, self-learning ability, respecting human and social knowledge, supplementing scientific achievements and modern technology in line with absorptive capacity of students and reaching the general education level in countries in the region and the world.

Focusing on training of human resources to meet the diverse and multi-layer requirements of technology and the level of development of the sector, industry, manpower training to develop the intellectual economy.

Well performing the strategies of educational and vocational development; strategy and planning for human resource development for the period 2011 - 2020 with the concretization in line with sectors, regions and localities. Building a learning society, mobilizing and efficiently using all resources in society to develop education and training.

- Developing the number and improving the quality of health services, health care, ensuring food safety, improving conditions and hygiene of working environment.

Speeding up health care in the direction of comprehensiveness, focusing on the proactive and active prevention, promptly preventing and well controlling diseases, screening for early detection and timely treatment of diseases. Consolidating and strengthening health systems towards diversifying types of services and socializing participants, including public health facilities which shall play a key role. Establishing a comprehensive health care services supply system, focusing on providing basic health services and initial health care services. Improving the quality of medical examination, treatment and rehabilitation at all levels; reducing overcrowding in hospitals of upper levels. Improving and upgrading facilities, working conditions of ward and communal health stations. Speeding up the development of medical human resources and social workers in both quantity and quality; training community health workers, medical technicians to ensure that they have the ability to conduct the healing, health care and implement preventive health activities.

Gradually forming a system of management and control of hygiene, food safety in order to protect health and interests of consumers.

Improving working conditions, reducing working environmental pollution, labor accidents and occupational diseases, health care for laborers and enhancing labor safety and hygiene assurance.

- Maintaining social-political stability, firmly protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the country, positive and proactive international integration.

Ensuring security, political and social order and safety, enhancing national defense potential to firmly protect the independence, national sovereignty, firmly maintaining peace, stability to build and develop the country; closely combining national defense and security with social and economic development and environmental protection.

Strengthening international cooperation, responsibly implementing international commitments; positively and proactively integrating to build an independent and self-reliant economy and raising Vietnam's position in the international arena.

c) Natural resources and environment

- Preventing degradation and sustainably and efficiently using land resources

Enhance the efficiency of land use. Ensuring the harmonious balance of land use needs of the industries and sectors and ensuring food security. Developing land fund for sustainable social and economic development. Renovating the land use plan and planning to ensure land use planning synchronously and in line with the social and economic development to avoid overlap between urban planning, the planning rural residential, industrial park planning with land use planning, planning to avoid overlapping of solid building planning on the land area containing mineral resources. Building systems of land and financial policies and transparent and efficient price.

Increasing productivity of land ecosystems and placingn the sustainable agricultural production as a priority issue through the poverty reduction support policies based on the standpoint to adapt to climate change and protect biodiversity, applying measures of cultivation techniques to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and plant protection chemical in agriculture. Strengthening scientific research and technology combined with the preservation of indigenous knowledge in land degradation and improvement of soil degradation. Building plant and animal structure to suit each priority area, ensuring the sustainable use of land resources, forest protection and development.

- Protecting water surface and sustainably using water resources.

Protecting and effectively exploiting and sustainably using national water resources on the basis of integrated and unified management of water resources, ensuring water security for social economic development and promoting cooperation with neighboring countries in the sharing of transboundary water resources. Thriftily using and increasing the economic efficiency in the use of water resources. Water is considered as important national asset and increasing effectiveness and efficiency in the management of water resources. Focusing on environmental protection of the river basins. Developing and implementing programs and projects of integrated management of river basins, watershed and groundwater.

Strengthening the building of wastewater collection and treatment system in urban areas and industrial zones. Strengthening the research of methods of wastewater treatment from activities of agricultural production and aquaculture. Preventing degradation and restoring the quality of water resources, especially water quality restoration in the main river basins.

- Rationally mining and using mineral resources thriftily and sustainably

Mining and using the mineral resources rationally, thriftily and efficiently, ensuring reserves of mineral resources in service of needs of development of immediate and long-term economic sectors. Limiting and strictly controlling the export of raw resources and by 2020, ending the export of intensively unprocessed minerals. Focusing on development of strategy, planning of mineral surveying and mining training, and development of human resource; researching the science and applying technology in the basic geological survey of mineral resources. Carrying out the survey and mining mineral under the strategy and planning of mineral approved. Increasing investment in the basic surveys and applying advanced technology of mineral exploration and mining.

Enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the State management of minerals, promoting environmental protection and restoration in mining. Eliminating the ask-give mechanism in mining, implementing the management of mineral resources under the market mechanism through "auction" or "tender" of mineral mines. Enhancing the search and discovery of new mineral mines and the possibilities to replace resources of depletion risk.

- Protecting marine, coastal, island environment and developing marine resources

Protecting and sustainably using natural resources and the marine environment to strive to make our country a strong and rich country from the sea by 2020, firmly ensuring national sovereignty at sea, importantly contributing to the industrialization, modernization and sustainable development of the country.

Ensuring resources and marine environment to be managed totally, unifiedly and effectively through the establishment of appropriate and adequate legal grounds,, especially the Law on Natural Resources and Marine Environment, Resources and Strategy of Natural Resources and Marine Environment and the conditions necessary for the management, exploitation, utilization and sustainable protection of natural resources and marine environment.

Promoting research and basic surveys of natural conditions, natural resources and environment of our country’s waters; establishing scientific arguments to strengthen state management, promoting potential and advantages of sea , coastal areas and islands.

- Protecting developing forests

Determining forest protection as protecting an ecosystem constantly developing and also ensuring the optimal reproduction and utilization of forest. Appreciating the propagation and raising awareness for all levels and sectors and people of the policies and laws on forest protection, resolutely and strictly punishing acts of sabotage causing serious consequences for the environment and state assets. Developing forest ecological services and enhancing the application of payment mechanism of forest ecological services to ensure benefits to both users and providers of ecological services.

Planning, classifying and having development plan of 3 types of forest (special-use forests, protection forests and production forests); combining conservation, protection with eco-tourism, resort and other environmental services development. Applying scientific achievements and advanced technologies to inherit forestry production experience of local people. Performing research on forest development in two main directions such as improvement of forest plant varieties breeding and application of silvicultural measures. Rationally exploiting and using forests to regenerate and improve forest quality.

- Reducing air pollution and noise in large urban centers and industrial zones

Speeding up activities of monitoring, inventory and urban air environment control. Controlling and limiting the sources of dust pollution from construction activities and traffic. Strengthening measures to control and reduce emissions of air pollution and noise caused by transportation activities and industrial production, people's livelihood.

Completing functions, tasks and organizational structure of the environmental management of urban air and industrial zones.

- Effectively managing solid waste and hazardous waste.

Improving the efficiency of solid waste management and hazardous waste in order to improve the environmental quality and ensure public health. Reducing solid waste generation and minimizing the volume of waste to be buried in order to save land resources and limit environmental pollution. Strictly controlling hazardous waste generated in the manufacturing sectors and the health sector.

Building the integrated management system of solid waste which can be sorted at source, collected, reused, recycled and thoroughly treated with the appropriate advanced technologies. Building infrastructure, finance and human resources for the implementation of integrated management of solid waste.

Strengthening waste inventory and monitoring, gradually auditing waste in waste management in production facilities and industrial parks. Effectively implementing the national target program on reducing pollution and improving environment

- Conserving and developing biodiversity

Conserving and developing biodiversity. Harmoniously combining between conservation and exploitation, rational use of biodiversity and poverty alleviation. Developing eco-tourism and ensuring stability of the lives of people legally living in the reserve, sustainably developing the buffer zone of the reserve. Applying scientific and technological advances, traditional knowledge and payment mechanisms for ecosystem services in conservation and sustainable development of biodiversity. Ensuring the participation of local people in the process of implementation of biodiversity conservation planning.

- Mitigating and adapting to climate change and natural disaster prevention

Developing and strengthening the capacity of response and positive adaptation of people and natural systems to protect natural resources in the context of climate change and improve the quality of life, ensuring environmental security and the sustainable development. Developing the monitoring system of climate change and sea level rise. Modernizing the monitoring system and technology of meteorological forecasting to ensure warning, early forecasting of extreme climate events. Organizing the implementation of the national strategy on climate change, developing and promulgating the Law on natural disaster prevention and mitigation.

Raising awareness, responsibility and capacity in response to climate change and disaster preparedness of the parties concerned; enhancing scientific and technological activities, organizational capacity, institution, policy development and human resources to actively respond to natural disasters and mitigate losses and damages caused by natural disasters related to climate change.

II. GROUPS OF SOLUTION

1. Further improving the institutional system of sustainable development, improving the quality of national governance for sustainable development of the country.

- Continuing to improve the legal system, mechanism and policies towards adjustment, supplementation and new promulgation to ensure regulatory framework for the implementation of the Strategy for Sustainable Development in Vietnam for the period 2011 - 2020 (hereinafter referred to as the Strategy). Focusing on the completion of policies and laws on environmental protection, first of all amending the Law on Environmental Protection 2005.

- Enhancing the efficiency of state management towards administrative reform, improving transparency, of national governance and corruption prevention. Strengthening collaboration between the parties concerned in the implementation. Strengthening the system of organizational structure of all levels to undertake the management of sustainable development.

- Integrating the viewpoints and principles of sustainable development in strategies, policies, planning and plans of development, ensuring the development and implementation of national target programs must be linked to strategy approved by the Government and must be inspected, assessed according to the criteria and indicators for sustainable development regularly and closely.

- Developing programs / action plans at all levels to implement the strategy.

- Continuing research, supplementation and update to improve the monitoring and evaluation indicators of sustainable development to suit each stage of development.

- Strengthening the leadership of the Party and state management in the implementation of the strategy, regular inspection, testing, monitoring of the implementation of policies, objectives and indicators for sustainable development.

- Strengthening and strictly applying criminal and administrative sanctions with the content of sustainable development assurance; focusing on sanctions of violations of environmental laws, having clear rewarding policies for organizations and individuals ​​seriously performing regulations on sustainable development assurance.

2. Strengthening financial resources to implement sustainable development

- Increasing investment and effectively using funds from the state budget for implementation of the strategy. Enhancing expenditure from the state budget for the construction and completion of institutional system, laws and policies for sustainable development; developing programs / action plans to implement the strategy; Performing scientific and technological research related to sustainable development, education and communication to raise awareness of sustainable development, performing the training and practice to improve management capacity and implementing sustainable development.

- Mobilizing and efficiently using resources of official development assistance (ODA), the resources of social investment and funding from organizations and individuals in the country or abroad for implementation of sustainable development.

- Developing mechanisms and policies to encourage financial institutions, enterprises of all economic sectors and individuals to provide funding and investment for activities to implement the objectives of sustainable development.

- Strengthening the application of financial instruments (taxes, fees ...) to increase financial resources for the implementation of sustainable development goals of the country.

- Establishing the sustainable development Fund to raise and receive capital resources from the State budget, resources of fundings, contributions and entrustment of the international organizations, non-governmental organizations, institutions and individuals in the country and abroad to provide financial support for projects, activities, initiatives and sustainable development model of sectors, localities and communities nationwide.

3. Propagating, educating and raising awareness of sustainable development.

- Promoting the education and communication to raise awareness of the entire society about sustainable development. Developing and implementing communication programs with appropriate contents and forms of propagation for each target groups in society. Promoting the role and responsibilities of the communication agencies like television, radio, press in raising people's awareness of the guidelines, policies and strategies for sustainable development of the country; disseminating the contents and information on sustainable development. Mobilizing the participation of organizations such as the Fatherland Front, Women's Union, Youth Union, Veterans Association, Farmers’ Union, Students’ Association ... in communication on sustainable development.

- Updating and introducing the educational contents on sustainable development into the curriculum of all educational levels of the education and training system.

4. Strengthening management capacity and implementation of sustainable development.

- Strengthening the training and practice to improve management capacity and implementation of sustainable development for officials at all levels, organizations and the business community.

- Strengthening capacity for research agencies on sustainable development.

- Developing systems of information and database in service of management for sustainable development.

- Developing system of monitoring and evaluation of implementation of sustainable development.

5. Enhancing the role, responsibilities and strengthening the participation of the business community, the social -political organizations, the social - professional organizations, the non-governmental organizations and residential communities in the implementation of sustainable development.

- Strengthening the role, responsibilities and participation of businesses, the social - political organizations the social - professional, the non-governmental organizations and residential communities in the implementation of sustainable development and also in consultation, counter-argument, policy proposal for sustainable development and monitoring of implementation of sustainable development.

- Enhancing the role and participation of business community in the social-economic development, poverty reduction, management and thrifty use of natural resources and environmental protection and response to climate change, focusing on:

+ Improving technology and applying cleaner, environmentally friendly, energy saving production technology;

+ Raising accountability and mobilizing the resource contribution of enterprises in management and thrifty use of natural resources, maintaining biodiversity and environmental protection, proactively preventing and remedying environmental pollution;

+ Promoting the implementation of social responsibility of enterprises, implementing business models for the poor, creating of living and raising living standard for farmers and people in remote areas;

+ Developing initiatives of sustainable production and business, experimenting models for replication.

6. Developing resources for implementation of sustainable development

- Deploying and concretizing Strategy and Planning for Vietnamese human resource development period 2011 - 2020 with the motto to place an importance on human resource development, regarding it as a key and decisive step in transformation of growth model and sustainable development, synchronously developing a workforce of high quality in all areas to meet the requirements of sustainable development with rational structure of types of workforce by sectors and development area.

- Rapidly developing human resources, particularly high-quality human resources, closely linking the development of human resource with the development and application of science and technology for economic restructuring, transforming model growth, contributing to increase in productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy. Speeding up the implementation of basic and comprehensive renovation of Vietnamese higher education, strengthening the investment and construction of excellent universities and major universities. Implementing programs and schemes of training high-quality human resources for the key and essential sectors and areas. Focusing on detection, training, promoting of talent, training of human resources for development of knowledge-based economy.

7. Strengthening the role and impact of science and technology, speeding up technological innovation in implementation of sustainable development.

- Attaching the scientific and technological objectives and tasks to the objectives of sustainable development, ensuring that science and technology are the foundation and driving force for development activities. Focusing on development of scientific and technological sectors and areas as a foundation for sustainable development.

- Strongly concentrating on research and application of science and technology associated with sustainable development objectives. Speeding up scientific and technical research and technology transfer for sustainable development. Encouraging the development of environmental technologies, clean technologies, and environmentally friendly products, saving raw materials and energy. Effectively controlling the import and transfer of unadvanced, fuel and energy consuming technologies; applying approaches and advanced methods in management of development activities for the purpose of sustainable development. Enhancing application and development of information technology.

- Speeding up technological innovation, improving production technology level, particularly focusing on technological innovation towards thrift and efficient use of raw material and energy with less waste and increase in high value-added.

- Forming and developing system of research, training, consultation, scientific and technological services for sustainable development.

8. Expanding international cooperation

- Expanding international cooperation in the area of communication, science and technology exchange for sustainable development, developing environmental economic industries (waste treatment technology, less energy-consuming and carbon emission technology and waste recycling technology ...).

- Proactively and actively participating with the international community to deal with issues related to sustainable development; coordinating to deal with global and regional issues (transnational): reducing carbon emissions, contaminated water and air, forest harvesting, hydroelectric dams, social issues such as immigration, labor export and so on ...

III. IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION

1. Responsibilities of the National Council on improving competitiveness and sustainable development

Advising and assist the Government, the Prime Minister in directing and guiding the implementation of Strategy and monitoring and evaluating objectives and indicators specified in the Strategy; proposing measures, solutions, policies and mechanisms to ensure coordination of activities of ministries, sectors and localities, social-political organizations, social-professional organizations  and business community to implement strategy effectively.

2. Responsibilities of Ministries, sectors, localities and agencies and organizations concerned.

a) Ministry of Planning and Investment

Assuming the prime responsibility and coordinating with the Ministries, sectors, localities and agencies concerned to organize the implementation of Strategy, focusing on the following contents:

- Developing programs/national actions plans for sustainable development period 2011 - 2015 and 2016 – 2020, assigning specific tasks to the Ministries, sectors, localities and agencies and organizations concerned; ensuring resources to implement the objectives and indicators in the Strategy;

- Developing mechanism, policies to manage, guide and assist the implementation of Strategy;

- Coordinating and assisting Ministries, sectors, localities and agencies concerned to develop and implement the programs/national actions plans of all sectors and levels.

- Building information systems, database for sustainable development

- Supplementing and adjusting the indicators of national sustainable development in line with each development stage; developing indicator of sustainable development at local level for unified application nation-wide; monitoring and evaluating the implementation of Strategy under objectives and indicators issued; integrating these objectives and indicators of sustainable development in the guideline for developing and implementing the social-economic development Plan of the Ministries, sectors and localities.

- Urgently undertaking research, submitting for establishment of the sustainable development Fund t;

- Performing annual assessment and partially summing up the results of the implementation of Strategy, making a report to the Prime Minister and the proposing the adjustments, supplementation of necessary mechanisms and policies.

b) The Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies.

- Developing programs / action plans of sector; establishing a steering committee for develop sustainable of sector; arranging resources for effectively implementing the Strategy, actively participating in activities of general coordination under direction of the Government;

- Integrating the contents of the Strategy during the process of policy making; developing and implementing the strategy, planning and plan for development of their sectors;

- Assuming the prime responsibility and coordinating with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to develop indicators of sustainable development of sector in line with conditions and particularity of development of their sector on the basis of requirements of sustainable development and indicators of monitoring and evaluation of national sustainable development, organizing the monitoring and evaluation of objectives of sustainable development under the management area.

- Organizing extensive propagation among officials and public servants the spirit and content of the Strategy;

- Making annual report on the result of implementation of Strategy, objectives and indicators under management area for submission to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for report to the Prime Minister.

c) People’s Committee of centrally-affiliated cities and provinces

- Coordinating with the Ministries and central sectors to develop program/ action plans of localities; establishing the local steering Committee for sustainable development; arranging resources to effectively implement the Strategy;

- Integrating contents of the Strategy in the process of policy making; developing and performing the planning and plan for development of localities.

- Organizing extensive propagation for cadres, public servants, officials, enterprises and strata on the Strategy and programs/action plans of the provinces and cities performing the Strategy.

- Organizing the monitoring and evaluation of objectives and indicators of sustainable development in areas of cities and provinces;

- Developing and implementing the pilot models on sustainable development at localities in line with characteristics, custom and level of awareness of people for dissemination and replication.

- Making annual report on the result of implementation of Strategy and indicators of sustainable development in areas of cities and provinces for submission to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and then for report to the Prime Minister.

d) Social-political organizations, social-professional, non-governmental organizations, Viet Nam Business Council for Sustainable Development under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

- Proactively developing action plans and implementing the Strategy within their functions and operations.

- Propagating, advocating and mobilizing the participation of business community and strata in implementation of Strategy

- Making annual report on the result of implementation of Strategy for submission to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for report to the Prime Minister.

3. Funding for implementation

- Funding for the implementation of sustainable development strategy of Vietnam period 2011 - 2020 are allocated in the annual budget estimate of Ministries, agencies, and organizations concerned and localities according to the current decentralization of state budget.

- The Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance shall balance and allocate annual funding as prescribed by the Law on state budget to effectively implement the Strategy; guiding the Ministries, sectors and localities to use the funding properly and effectively.

- The Ministry of Finance shall specify the regular source of expenditure for the contents of the Strategy and guide the making of estimate and use of funding under the provisions of law.

- The Ministries, agencies, and organizations concerned and localities shall mobilize the funding of organizations and individuals in the country and abroad as prescribed by law to implement the Strategy.

Article 2. This Decision shall take effect from its signing date.

Article 3. The Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies, Chairman of People's Committees of centrally-affiliated cities and provinces and the heads of the relevant agencies are liable to execute this Decision.

ANNEX

INDICATORS OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PERIOD 2011 - 2020
(Issued together with Decision No. 432/QD-TTg dated April 12, 2012 of the Prime Minister)

* According to five-year social-economic Development Plan 2011-2015.

** According to social-economic development Strategy 2011 – 2020.