Prevention of Landslides and Flash Floods Project Aims to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has completed a project to prevent landslides and flash floods in the Central and mountainous areas of the North, aiming to minimize human and property damage while promoting sustainable socio-economic development. The project has been built on the situation of increasing landslides and flash floods, causing significant damage to people and property, particularly in the Central Highlands and northern mountainous regions. The project aims to review and perfect policies and laws, create detailed risk maps, modernize warning and monitoring systems, relocate populations from danger areas, and develop watershed forests.

Key Takeaways:

• The project aims to minimize damage caused by landslides and flash floods, ensure safety for people, and improve natural disaster prevention and control capacity and adapt to climate change.
• The project has been built on data from 35 provinces, expert consultations, and international experiences.
• The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment will assume prime responsibility for coordinating, building maps, perfecting the law, and operating the warning system.
• Other ministries and branches, such as finance, construction, defense, and science and technology, will support the project by providing finance, planning, training, and technology.
• Province and city People's Committees will be responsible for organizing investigations, relocating populations, and implementing local prevention works.
• The project aims to achieve specific goals by 2030 and 2035, including the completion of 1:50,000 partition maps, modern warning systems, and automated monitoring systems.

Statistics:

• Total project cost: VND 161,000 billion
• Mobilization of funds from state budget, natural disaster prevention fund, and social sources
• Project timeline: 2025-2035
• Expected benefits: minimization of damage caused by landslides and flash floods, improved natural disaster prevention and control capacity and adaptability to climate change
• Project goals to be achieved by:

+ 2030: 100% of provinces in the risk area complete 1:50,000 partition maps, key communes have 1:10,000 ratio maps, modern warning system covers high-risk areas

+ 2035: over 95% of the monitoring system automated, natural disaster prevention and control works invested synchronously

Sources:

• Ministry of Agriculture and Environment
• Government of the project submitted on Prevention of landslides and flash floods in the Central and mountainous areas of the North
• Resolution 01/NQ-CP in 2025 on modernization of hydro-meteorological systems and improving capacity to respond to climate change
• Contify.com (distributor)