Vietnam Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Assessment

Sections 118 and 119 of the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) of 1961, as amended, mandate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to undertake analysis of biodiversity and tropical forest issues as part of the development of “country development strategy statement [CDCS] or other country plan prepared by the Agency.” These “118/119 biodiversity and tropical forest assessments” should guide development programming at a strategic level. The 2013 Vietnam 118/119 Assessment coincides with the formulation of the USAID/Vietnam five-year CDCS. It was conducted in May-July 2013 by a team of consultants drawn from the USAID Global Environmental Management Support (GEMS) project.