TA-9002 VIE: Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development - 1 Firm NUDS - SRB

Scope of work: The Government of Vietnam has requested support from ADB and other development partners to respond to policy gaps in the urban sector through the formulation of a National Urban Development Strategy (NUDS). The NUDS will be used to support a programmatic approach for identifying development projects, based on the existing National Target Program (NTP) to Respond to Climate Change (2008) and which would be suitable for financing by the ADB. The programmatic approach lends itself possibly to the Results Based Lending (RBL) approach funding for urban climate change resilience (UCCR) projects from 2018. Objective: The overall objective of the capacity development technical assistance (CDTA) with the Ministry of Construction (MOC), Urban Development Agency (UDA): (i) Support the government of Viet Nam (GOV) to mainstream climate change resilience into the NUDS; (ii) Develop capacity at the national and local government levels on urban climate change resilience; (iii) Improve coordination within MOC and within the line ministries, agencies, institutes and the local governments involved in urban development and climate change; (iv) Develop a pipeline of investment projects in sustainable and resilient urban development and a delivery mechanism for program lending. The outputs of the CDTA will be delivered through a consultancy contract with one Firm (hereinafter referred to as the Consultants), to incorporate the three main outputs (NUDS, National Urban Planning and Capacity Development) of the TA and individual consultants for specialist studies and advisory inputs, recruited as individual consultants or resources persons (hereinafter referred to as the Individual Consultant). The consultants contracts will be administered by ADB with UDA, MOC, as the counterpart agency of the GOV. The outputs of the CDTA are: 1. National Urban Development Strategy approved by 2018. The technical assistance will provide support for NUDS consultations with relevant ministries, provincial authorities, community members and relevant communities of practice. This output will deliver the institutional framework to support a participatory cross-sectoral urbanization planning process in Viet Nam that engages officials at the national and provincial levels and community members, including: (i) Viet Nam’s new NUDS to be approved as a high level policy document under a Prime Minister Decision, for mainstreaming climate change resilience into urban development, consistent with NUDP, which will underline ADB’s participation in the sector through a government-led results based lending program; 2. Guidelines to Improve National Urban Planning by 2017, through the incorporation of urban climate change resilience elements in planning and building practices. This output will have the following deliverables: (i) Guideline on urban resilient urban land use planning for urban and peri-urban areas, including testing through the development/updating of a land-use plan. (ii) Guidelines / Manual for low-cost resilient housing and pilots. (iii) Dissemination and Capacity Building on (i) and (ii). 3. Capacity developed to implement climate change resilience at Provincial and City Levels. This output will have the following deliverables: (i) The preparation of 3 Urban Development Programs (UDP), developed at the provincial level to promote regional planning for climate change resilience, based on the NUDS and the National Green Growth Strategy. Pilot provincial urban development strategies under the form of UDP will be necessary to test the implementation of the NUDS in the provinces; (ii) The preparation of 6 Resilient Cities Action Plans, developed in a participatory manner and incorporating climate change resilience. These will identify key infrastructure, policy and institutional requirements in 6 priority cities and will act as precursors to the PPTA. Cities will be prioritized on the basis of size and vulnerability and decided by ADB and the GOV.