The 45th anniversary of the Vietnam-United Nations Development Program (UNDP) partnership for sustainable development was held on June 2 evening in Hanoi.

Vietnam needs drastic solutions to plastic pollution caused by agricultural production as it has been putting pressures on the environment, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said on May 31.

This article is an excerpt from the 2022 PAPI Report and presents key findings from the 2022 PAPI citizen surveys regarding issues of citizens’ greatest concern and citizens’ assessment of governance and public administration performance at the national level in 2022. The Report records the voices of 16,117 respondents from across Vietnam, who shared their experiences of local government performance in governance, public administration and public service delivery during 2022.

Vietnam is determined to pursue rapid and sustainable economic growth combined with environmental protection to progress to prosperity. To reach that goal, green growth is the inevitable choice.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Vietnam, organized an international workshop on “Experience in reporting under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism.”

Despite an increase in the number of district-level land use plans and provincial-level land pricing frameworks available online on local government portals in 2022 compared to 2021 as well as local authorities’ better response to citizen requests for land information, provincial and district authorities should do more to meet the mandate of disclosing information online.

A project on reducing plastic waste in the Vietnamese tourism sector was launched on February 16 with the support of the United Nations Development Program in Vietnam.

Ramla Al Khalidi, United Nations Development Program Resident Representative in Vietnam, speaks to the Vietnam News Agency’s Việt Nam News about the challenges that Vietnam faces in biodiversity conservation as well as activities UNDP has been doing to help promote biodiversity conservation in the country.

This article is an excerpt from the Report “Public Procurement: Findings from a Business Perception Survey”, which was the result of a collaborative research initiative conducted from July 2021 to June 2022 by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Highlighted here are key findings from the business survey, aiming to understand the experience and perception of businesses in public procurement activities in localities, especially in the health sector.

Based on the current legal framework, the Institute for Policy Studies and Media Development (IPS) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has recently conducted a review to evaluate the personal data and privacy protection practices on e-government portals and e-service portals of all 63 provinces as well as apps being put into use by 50 provinces.[1] Two dimensions were assessed: (i) privacy policies issued by local governments; and, (ii) specific measures to implement such policies through technical tools.