Vietnam’s General Statistics Office (GSO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will cooperate in improving the provision, production and use of statistical data on labour and sustainable employment, serving the making of evidence-based policies.
Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the cooperation in the 2012-2016 period signed in Hanoi on October 24, the two sides committed to working together in raising the quality of statistical data in surveys on labour force, salary, child labour, and the unofficial sector.
ILO will also come up with technical, financial, and human resource assistance to assist GSO in building and analysing criteria on sustainable employment, including intensive research works on the labour market’s key issues, as well as in enhancing the GSO staff’s capacity in the work.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, ILO Regional Director for Asia-Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto said that Vietnam has successfully conducted surveys on regular labour force so as to provide quarterly data on the labour market, which enabled it to narrow the gap in the provision of labour market information with other regional countries.
According to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet Sinh, despite recording significant achievements in the national construction and development, Vietnam, like other middle-income countries, still faces many challenges in ensuring its sustainable development.
He emphasised the urgent need to have objective and reliable evidence for building people-centred policies and strategies in order to ensure growth quality of a middle-income country.
Sinh also affirmed that the outcomes of the ILO-GSO cooperation will serve as the foundation for the building of national socio-economic development strategies and plans as well as the statistical development strategy in 2011-2020 with a vision to 2030 and the employment strategy.-VNA
Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the cooperation in the 2012-2016 period signed in Hanoi on October 24, the two sides committed to working together in raising the quality of statistical data in surveys on labour force, salary, child labour, and the unofficial sector.
ILO will also come up with technical, financial, and human resource assistance to assist GSO in building and analysing criteria on sustainable employment, including intensive research works on the labour market’s key issues, as well as in enhancing the GSO staff’s capacity in the work.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, ILO Regional Director for Asia-Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto said that Vietnam has successfully conducted surveys on regular labour force so as to provide quarterly data on the labour market, which enabled it to narrow the gap in the provision of labour market information with other regional countries.
According to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet Sinh, despite recording significant achievements in the national construction and development, Vietnam, like other middle-income countries, still faces many challenges in ensuring its sustainable development.
He emphasised the urgent need to have objective and reliable evidence for building people-centred policies and strategies in order to ensure growth quality of a middle-income country.
Sinh also affirmed that the outcomes of the ILO-GSO cooperation will serve as the foundation for the building of national socio-economic development strategies and plans as well as the statistical development strategy in 2011-2020 with a vision to 2030 and the employment strategy.-VNA
