The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN HABITAT) will help Vietnam carry out its strategy to improve the collecting and recording of statistics, especially population, reproductive health and gender figures to serve the making of socio-economic plans.
A cooperative agreement on the work was signed in Hanoi on September 17 by representatives from the General Statistics Office (GSO) and UNFPA and UN HABITAT.
The work will be given a budget of over 5.97 million USD, including 4.5 million USD provided UNFPA, 800,000 USD from UN HABITAT and the remainder from the government’s counterpart capital.
It aims to strengthen the capacity of GSO and its partners in collecting, analysing and disseminating information and data on population, reproductive health and gender issues, which will help with the implementation of Vietnam ’s Statistics Development Strategy over the 2011-2020 period.
When speaking at the launching ceremony, UNFPA’s Chief Representative in Vietnam , Bruce Campbell said the Statistics Development Strategy marks Vietnam ’s entry to the club of 100 nations across the world to have statistical development strategies.
It also indicates the Vietnamese government’s determination to reform the way it uses statistics to support the making of policies and evaluate the efficiency of policy implementation on the basis of facts and data, he added.
According to the UNFPA official, population data and forecast provides a foundation for the programming of socio-economic development plans so changes in population, especially interacting impacts between population issues and development should become part of socio-economic development plans.-VNA
A cooperative agreement on the work was signed in Hanoi on September 17 by representatives from the General Statistics Office (GSO) and UNFPA and UN HABITAT.
The work will be given a budget of over 5.97 million USD, including 4.5 million USD provided UNFPA, 800,000 USD from UN HABITAT and the remainder from the government’s counterpart capital.
It aims to strengthen the capacity of GSO and its partners in collecting, analysing and disseminating information and data on population, reproductive health and gender issues, which will help with the implementation of Vietnam ’s Statistics Development Strategy over the 2011-2020 period.
When speaking at the launching ceremony, UNFPA’s Chief Representative in Vietnam , Bruce Campbell said the Statistics Development Strategy marks Vietnam ’s entry to the club of 100 nations across the world to have statistical development strategies.
It also indicates the Vietnamese government’s determination to reform the way it uses statistics to support the making of policies and evaluate the efficiency of policy implementation on the basis of facts and data, he added.
According to the UNFPA official, population data and forecast provides a foundation for the programming of socio-economic development plans so changes in population, especially interacting impacts between population issues and development should become part of socio-economic development plans.-VNA
