Trainer: Valérie Mancret-Taylor, Paris Region Master Plan (SDRIF) mission coordinator, sustainable planning unit, Île-de-France Regional Council
The participatory or rather consultative approach is mentioned in some of Vietnam’s laws and regulations. However, the provisions are rather cursory. Those found under articles 15, 19 and 23 of the Construction Law, Decree No. 08 of the Government of Vietnam and Circular No. 15 of the Ministry of Construction only require a very general consultation with jurisdictional agencies and the people living on the site to be developed. This explains the low level of effectiveness and narrowness of the consultation process in urban planning documents.
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Group of trainees at seminar |
IMV arranged this training session at the request of the Hanoi Architecture and Urban Planning Department in order to enable professionals of Hanoi city and the Ministry of Construction to become familiar with consultation practices common in France. The trainees included urban planners and engineers from the National Institute for Urban and Rural Planning of the Ministry of Construction, Hanoi Architecture and Urban Planning Department and the Hanoi Institute of Urban Planning and Construction.
In the theory sessions, the trainer illustrated the different aspects of consultation using examples taken from the current review of the Île-de-France region master plan. The last two days of the workshop dealt with two different cases in Vietnam. First was the Hanoi region area master plan for which the trainees were asked to adapt the French practices and come up with solutions to promote consultation among the eight provinces of the Hanoi region. The second was the Red River banks development project that had been a topic of hot debate in the news media, and involved an approach to consulting the 170,000 or so people directly concerned. The trainees came up with forms of consultation to involve them and more broadly speaking the entire population of Hanoi, given that the project calls for radical changes in the city’s relationship with the river.