Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
(MONRE) awards the Medal to Mr. Mutsuya Mori, Chief Representative
of JICA Vietnam, for his outstanding contributions to responding to
climate change in Vietnam.
-What JICA is doing?Since early 1990s, JICA has been supporting Vietnam with a number
of projects in the environment sector because environment has been one of
the priority areas on Japan’s assistance policy to Vietnam. Those include
projects on water environment management, air pollution control and waste
management etc. Recently, responding to climate change has emerged as a
major challenge for Vietnam as it is one of the most vulnerable countries to
climate change. Joining the efforts by the Vietnamese Government and of
the international community, the government of Japan/JICA has placed
great importance on supporting Vietnam in both the mitigation and
adaptation, and cross-cutting issues to respond to Climate Change.
-What is Support Program to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC)?Remarkably, in 2009, in joint discussion with the Vietnamese side,
the government of Japan decided to launch the “Support Program to
Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC)” together with the French
Development Agency (AFD), and now it is co-financed by the World Bank,
Australia, the Korean Eximbank besides AFD and JICA. SPRCC is the
policy-based general budget support, by which the disbursement by the
Donors will be made into the State budget once the satisfied
implementation of the prior-agreed Policy Matrix has been confirmed. The
Program has the ultimate aim to support and facilitate the smooth and welldirected mainstreaming of climate change into policy, programs and
planning of sector development, as set forth in the National Target Program
to Respond to Climate Change (2008-2015) and later the National Climate
Change Strategy (vision to 2050).
-Major achievements so far in SPRCCSPRCC had completed its first phase (2009-2012) and is entering its
second phase (2013-2015). In this new phase, the Policy Matrix has been
developed with a better focus on ensuring the alignment with strategic and
long-term policies of the Government in responding to climate change. Up
until now, SPRCC has been acknowledged as the biggest ever forum that is
proving to be an efficient channel for policy dialogue on climate change
between the Government of Vietnam and Development Partners, among
the different line ministries and development partners.
-Award receivedAcknowledging the achievements, the Minister of MONRE decided
to award Mr. MORI for his outstanding contributions to responding to
climate change in Vietnam though the SPRCC program, and for his
leadership and contributions during the formulation and implementation of
this program. Mr. MORI was the leader of the JICA team who worked on
initiating the SPRCC, and now in his new position as Chief Representative
of JICA Vietnam office, he has been closely supervising and giving prompt
guidance and direction for the implementation.
-Comment by Mr. Mutsuya Mori, Chief Representative of JICA VietnamMr. Mutsuya Mori commented “It is my gear pleasure to receive
such an honorable award as team leader of my team. Our progress and
achievements were made by joint efforts together with MONRE and the
government of Japan/JICA, based on the good relationship between the two
countries. I committed myself to continuing to make the best effort for the
SPRCC with MONRE as well as all JICA-supported projects in the
Environment sector.”
-Comment by Minister of MONREMr. Tran Hong Ha, Vice Minister of MONRE said that“SPRCC
program has marked the successful contribution of the Japanese
government as a pioneer donor who has provided the biggest funding (1015 billion yen per year since 2009) to help Vietnam to respond to climate
change. With active supports from SPRCC, quite a number of very
important policies on climate change have been developed and adopted
such as Resolution No 24 of the Communist Party’s Central Executive
Committee on response to climate change and improvement of natural
resources management and environmental protection; the national climate
change strategy; national target program on climate change response for
2012-2015, national action plan for climate change response 2012-2020
and recently the green growth strategy”.