1. To submit to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development for promulgation:
2. a) Law projects, draft resolutions by the National Assembly; decree projects, draft resolutions by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly; draft decrees and resolutions by the Government; draft decisions, instructions by the Prime Minister, and other documents on natural disaster management activities.
3. b) Long-term, mid-term and annual development strategies, planning and development schemes; mechanisms, policies; and state-focused programs, projects and works in the field of natural disaster prevention control.
4. c) National standards, national technical codes and specialized economic-technical norms in the field of natural disaster management.
5. Technical instructions of natural disaster management.
6. Propagation, dissemination and education of law on natural disaster management.
7. To direct, monitor and organize the implementation of legal documents, mechanisms, policies, strategies, planning, programs and projects in the field of natural disaster management.
8. Management of natural disaster risks:
9. a) To submit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development national strategies on natural disaster management; planning orientations, a list of fundamental research projects on natural disaster management; plans of prevention and control of natural disasters, floods, river bank and coastal  landslide; plans of disaster management at the national level; Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s natural disaster management and disaster preparedness plans; instructions of procedures and methods of making and monitoring plans of preventing natural disasters, floods and riverbank and coastal landslide.
10. b) To instruct and monitor making, approval and implementation of disaster response plans and natural disaster management plans in accordance with socio-economic development plans and projects of localities, ministries and branches as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
11. c) To instruct and monitor implementation of law provisions on human resources, materials, means, equipment, essential supplies, and resources for natural disaster management activities; to monitor and supervise  operations affecting works, measures of natural disaster management, and  how  households, individuals, domestic and international agencies and organizations operating in Vietnam comply to regulations on the natural disaster management;
12. d) To monitor compliance with natural disaster management regulations in construction and protection of disaster management works and works with disaster management structures; to include the issue of natural disaster management in socio-economic and sectoral development plans; and to ensure that requirements of disaster management for new construction or upgrading of urban and rural residential areas and technical infrastructure works are met;
13. e) To organize implementation of national strategies and plans for natural disaster management;
14. f) To build and protect natural disaster management infrastructures and structures with disaster management components; to prepare human resources, materials, means, equipment, communication system, essential supplies, and resources for the natural disaster management operations by the Authority;
15. g) To establish and to operate a tsunami warning system and to deliver early warnings  of tsunami in this system; to make response plans for natural disasters, typhoons, mega-typhoons and emergency response plans in case of  floods exceeding the designed capacity  or  in other emergency cases.
16. Response to natural disasters:
17. a) To submit to the Minister measures of mobilizing human resources, materials, means for natural disaster management and to organize how to take these measure upon their approval;
18. b) To assist the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in directing natural disaster response plans in accordance with the law provisions;
19. c) To instruct and monitor implementation of regulations on emergencies of diverting floods, retarding floods, and measures of population evacuation and supports for disaster-affected people;
20. d) To instruct, monitor and organize preventing and controlling the erosion of river bank, coast, embankment on borders and other works of natural disaster management in accordance with the law provisions;
21. e) To monitor and update forecasts and warnings of natural disasters; to provide professional monitoring and supervision; to respond to climate changes and sea level rise  in accordance with the Authority’s duties.
22. Recovery from Natural disaster consequences
23. a) To submit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development measures of recovery and summary reports, statistics for damage caused by natural disasters across the country, proposals of emergency aids and long-term and short-term support;
24. b) To assist the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in directing disaster recovery efforts in accordance with the law provisions;
25. c) To instruct and supervise gathering and assessment of statistics for damage caused by natural disasters and disaster recovery efforts in accordance with law provision.
26. Communication and community-based disaster risk management:
27. a) To organize disaster prevention popularization and education activities in accordance with law provisions; and to implement projects on public-awareness improvement and community-based disaster risk management.
28. b) To organize and participate in natural disaster management skill training courses and to organize training courses for those who are in charge of disaster management operations;
29. c) To supervise disaster prevention popularization and education operations in accordance with law provisions
30. Dykes management:
31. a) To submit the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development the following documents:

Planning guidelines, list of fundamental research on dykes, flood prevention and control plans for dyke-bounded rivers, and dyke planning as regulated;

Regulations on dyke classification, load permits and license granting for vehicles travelling on dykes,  legal documents confirming license granting for operations on special dykes at level I, level II and level III and for construction and upgrading of transportation works related to dykes as regulated by the law; dyke-related agreements; documents on appraisal of  investment projects on using river banks without existing structures; dyke maintenance and mobilization of forces, materials and means for dyke protection in accordance with the regulations.

1. b) To implement the state management duty of planning flood prevention and control on dyke-bounded rivers and dyke planning; constructing, maintaining, upgrading, renovating and strengthening dykes; managing, maintaining and  exploiting dykes in accordance with the law on dykes, – relevant law provisions and assignment  by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
2. To assist the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in implementing the main duties of natural disaster management and implementing the main duty of the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster prevention and control, the Standing Office of Central Committee for Natural Disaster prevention and control.
3. To manage planning and fundamental-research projects which the Directorate is in charge of as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
4. To implement a duty of collecting and managing data in the field of natural disaster management.
5. To conduct scientific researches, natural-disaster management and dyke technology transfer and to implement duties of constructing new rural areas as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
6. International cooperation in natural disaster management:
7. a) To submit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development reports on calling for, receiving and coordinating international aids of natural disaster management  as a duty of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;
8. b) To receive information of natural disaster forecasts and warnings and other natural disaster-related information from international agencies and organizations; provide information of natural disasters for international agencies and organizations in accordance with the law provisions;
9. c) To serve as a coordinator in natural disaster management, in ASEAN cooperation in disaster management, in the United Nations’ framework of natural disaster mitigation and in other international cooperation in natural disaster management as regulated by law and as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development;
10. d) To organize implementation of international programs, projects and cooperation activities in natural disaster management and dykes  as regulated by the law and as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
11. To implement the administrative reform in alignment with the administrative reform program of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
12. To manage the organizational structure, state employees and labourers as regulated by the law and as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development; to apply encouragement and reward policies and punishment policies, to hold skill training and capability improvement training courses for the  Directorate’s state employees as regulated by the law.
13. To instruct and supervise associations’ and non-government organizations’ natural disaster management operations as assigned by Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
14. To implement the technical inspection in accordance with the law provisions; citizen reception, claim and complaint settlement, corruption prevention, law violation handling, and retrenchment and anti-lavishness policies as regulated by the law..
15. To manage allocated budget, properties and other resources in accordance with the law provisions.
16. To manage construction investment as assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and as regulated by the law.
17. To implement other duties assigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.