Natural Disaster Management Plan by 2025 (Promulgated together with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 342/QD-TTg).

General objectives of this Natural Disaster Management Plan by 2025 are: Determine main tasks in natural disaster management which should be performed during 2021-2025 with a view to implementing the National Disaster Management Strategy by 2030 with a vision towards 2050; increase the capacity for natural disaster management and climate change adaptation so as to proactively respond to and minimize damage caused by disasters.
Specific objectives are identified as: a) Complete the legal system, mechanisms and policies for disaster management and related to disaster management. b) Increase the capacity for disaster management, especially several types of main disasters frequently occurring recently and possibly occurring in the coming time such as tropical depressions, storms, floods, inundation, flash floods, landslides, riverbank and costal erosion, droughts and saltwater intrusion. c) Attract and effectively use investment sources, synchronously take disaster management measures in association with the development plans of industries, local governments, socio-economic development and investment efficiency promotion. d) Gradually complete infrastructure for disaster management and climate change adaptation together with development of other infrastructure and new rural construction.
Main tasks in natural disaster management will include: Complete law, mechanisms and policies on disaster management; Communicate information, disseminate laws and increase skills and awareness of disaster management; Increase capacity of disaster management forces; Increase capacity and quality of disaster forecasting and warning; Carry out baseline surveys of disaster management; Develop disaster management planning and plan; Conduct scientific research and apply technologies to disaster management, especially to disaster monitoring, forecasting and warning; Promote international cooperation and exchange information in order to improve quality of disaster forecasting and warning, disaster management and search and rescue; Invest in disaster management infrastructure for tropical depression, storm, strong typhoon and super typhoon preparedness, flood and inundation prevention and control, riverbank and coastal erosion prevention and control; etc.