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Water management cost:
Expenditures related to water resources management are not categorized
separately in the State Budget but are listed under various Ministries
such as MONRE and MARD. As described under the Institutional part, water
resource management functions are spread among various Ministries, and
consequently expenses are allocated accordingly.
A review have been undertaken to estimate the spending on activities
in the water sector by the GoV. Due to the unclear yet division of the
management and service functions in the water sector, this review has
addressed only the water resources management and the management side
of the service function. The relevant expenditures under items pertaining
to water resources management from various ministries and departments
have been assessed and aggregated. Current expenditures for water resources
management consist of operating costs including salary of staff and
research costs incurred by state institutions.
| Fig.1 Total expenditure for Water Sector |
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Source: Ministry
of Finance. |
In addition to the small current expenditure for water resources management,
the much larger investments in the water sector have been estimated.
Although its proportion in the total national budget expenditure has
declined, the public expenditure for water resources management has
increased at an annual average of 8.9% during the period 1996- 2001.
The increase in current expenditures for water resources management
is illustrated in Table 22. This increase is expected to continue with
the creation of the MONRE.
| Table 1. Expenditures for Water Sector as a proportion
of Total Public Expenditure (bill. VND) |
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1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
A. National Budget Investment |
16,989 |
19,482 |
20,514 |
29,697 |
29,624 |
40,236 |
A1. Public investment for Water
Sector |
5,637 |
6,433 |
6,829 |
6,939 |
7,305 |
8,559 |
A2. As % of budget investment |
33.2 |
33.0 |
33.3 |
23.4 |
24.7 |
21.3 |
B. Current National Budget Expenditure |
42,414 |
49,270 |
50,885 |
52,077 |
61,823 |
71,562 |
B1. Current expenditure for Water
Sector |
44.9 |
46.2 |
45.1 |
50.5 |
58.0 |
62.2 |
B2. As % of current budget expenditure |
0.10 |
0.09 |
0.08 |
0.09 |
0.09 |
0.09 |
C. Total Budget Expenditure |
70,539 |
78,057 |
81,995 |
84,817 |
104,715 |
126,741 |
C1. Total expenditure ( A1+ B1) |
5681.9 |
6479.2 |
6874.1 |
6989.5 |
7363.0 |
8621.2 |
C2. As % of total budget expenditure |
8.0 |
8.3 |
8.4 |
8.2 |
7.0 |
6.8 |
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| Source: Ministry
of Finance and GSO, 2002; MPI. |
The public investment in the water sector constitutes a Considerable
proportion at 33% of the national budget investment from 1996 to 1998,
but this declined since 1999 due to a shift in focus of the national
budget towards banking systems and SOEs improvement. The main investments
are made in irrigation, water supply and drainage. Out of the total
spending for the period 1996-2001, it is estimated that around 64% originated
from official development assistance investments, while the remaining
36% came from domestic direct investments.
Source:Viet Nam Environment Monitor 2003 – Water.
http:/www.nea.gov.vn/English/state/VEM – 2003/Index.htm
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