Content with Safeguard A A1.3 .
Provincial REDD+ Action Plans (PRAPs) and other subnational REDD+ plans provide a basis for consultation, planning, implementation and monitoring of REDD+ policies and measures within a particular province, and for mobilising and coordinating the utilisation of resources from different sources for these policies and measures, contributing to overall REDD+ and forest protection and development efforts in the country.
National guidelines[1] on the development of PRAPs provide guidance to provinces on setting objectives that are based on the specific conditions of each province while aligned with the overall objectives of the NRAP and the Forest Protection and Development Plan. These guidelines set out the expected scope, stakeholders, contents, implementation arrangements, resourcing, and monitoring and evaluation of the PRAPs, including a standardised template.
PRAPs are developed based on analysis of direct and indirect drivers of deforestation and degradation as well as barriers to enhancing forest carbon reserves and identification of areas with the potential to implement REDD+ activities. Provincial People’s Committees are responsible for appraisal and approval of the PRAPs, ensuring consistency with national forest strategies, plans and programmes. In addition, the PRAP guidelines note an expected contribution to mobilising resources for and implementing the NRAP[2].
For PRAPs that were adopted during the development of the current NRAP, it is anticipated that they will be progressively harmonised with the NRAP, integrating key contents relevant to the specific provincial context, needs and challenges.
In addition to PRAPs, some REDD+ programmes in Viet Nam will be implemented in particular regions, such as the FCPF Emission Reductions (ER) Program in the North-Central Coast Region of Viet Nam. The ER Program aligns with the priority policies and measures set out in the NRAP[3].
Of Viet Nam’s 63 provinces and centrally-administered cities, 20 had approved PRAPs covering a range of periods up to 2020.
Provincial REDD+ Action Plans (PRAPs) approved
| Province | Date Approved | Period |
| Bắc Kạn | 06/2016 | 2015-2020 |
| Bình Thuận | 06/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Cà Mau | 04/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Đăk Nông | 01/2017 | 2016-2020 |
| Điện Biên | 08/2017 (revised version) | 2013-2020 |
| Hà Giang | 07/2017 | 2017-2020 |
| Hà Tĩnh | 06/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Hoà Bình | 09/2017 | 2017-2020 |
| Kon Tum | 08/2017 | 2017-2020 |
| Lai Châu | 09/2017 | 2017-2020 |
| Lâm Đồng | 01/2015 | 2015-2020 |
| Lào Cai | 06/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Nghệ An | 06/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Phú Thọ | 06/2017 | 2017-2020 |
| Quảng Bình | 04/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Quảng Ngãi | 01/2018 | 2018-2020 |
| Sơn La | 08/2017 | 2017-2020 |
| Thanh Hóa | 12/2016 | 2016-2020 |
| Thừa Thiên Huế | 12/2016 | 2016-2020 |
[1] MARD Decision No. 5414/2015/QD-BNN-TCLN.