Vietnam is appreciated to generate an appropriate legal framework for environmental protection activities in general and waste management in particular. However, most of guideline documents, technical standards, procedures and support policies which have been issued all concentrated on urban, industrial area, for public service enterprises
besides, the implementation of policies have been faced with barriers. Consequently, the implementation of rural domestic waste management were has got into difficulties in many years. The content of this afticle has assessed positive effects and the limitations of the current policies for rural domestic waste management through survey results in nine provinces: Thai Nguyen, Son La, Nghe An, Hai Duong, Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, Dong Thap, An Giang and Ben Tre. The assessment results are foundation to propose procedures and policies in order to support and promote domestic waste management for rural environmental area improvement.