Focus Area 3
Focus Area 3
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Enhanced governance and participation
With lower middle-income status comes greater complexity. Viet Nam is a country in transition, engaged in an ongoing process of institutional reform. The SocioEconomic Development Strategy 20112020 acknowledges the importance of governance reform. Sophisticated, modern institutions are needed to respond to and manage the complex challenges the country will face during the next five to 10 years. Continued reform and modernization of policy development processes, more effective national and sub-national institutions, enhanced parliamentary development and oversight, a more determined and informed fight against corruption and greater participation by all stakeholders and citizens in policy-making, planning and monitoring of performance at all levels are required if Viet Nam is to manage and respond to these challenges effectively.
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The SEDS states the need to “enhance capacity and establish mechanisms for the people to exercise their rights”. Emphasis is being placed on strengthened participation by all citizens to ensure more effective, accountable and transparent governance, so all Vietnamese people have a voice in the decisions which affect them and are able to fully realise their capabilities. A more supportive regulatory environment is required to drive greater engagement of PSPMOs in decision-making processes, service delivery and policy dialogue. Rule of law needs to be strengthened so all people, institutions and entities are accountable to laws that are equally enforced and independently adjudicated. Access to justice for all citizens, in particular the most vulnerable and disadvantaged who rely on the law or protection together with increased engagement by Government in human rights treaty implementation, will