Vietnam and the United Nations (UN) signed a new One Plan with a budgetof 480 million USD for the 2012-2016 period in Hanoi on Mar. 27.
Signatories were the Vietnamese Minister of Planning and InvestmentBui Quang Vinh and representatives from 16 UN organisations and theInternational Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Serving as the framework of the UN-IOM cooperative programmes inVietnam, the plan will assist the Vietnamese government in achievingsustainable growth and equality for all people, providing access to keyservices and social protection, and enhancing public governance andparticipation.
Addressing the ceremony, Minister Vinhsaid the plan aims to manage and utilise UN official developmentassistance effectively to meet Vietnam’s priorities for nationalsocio-economic development.
He said the plan alsoserves as an important document for both UN and Vietnamese agencies todetermine specific actions towards fulfilling the Hanoi Core Statementon aid effectiveness and the Delivering as One (DaO) initiative.
UN resident coordinator in Vietnam, Pratibha Mehta said the plan marksthe beginning of a new period of carrying out DaO in Vietnam, alongwith promoting the six common pillars of one plan, one budget, oneleader, one set of management practices, one voice and one UN greenhouse.
Vietnam is one of the first eight countriesto implement DaO, an initiative which helps UN organisations operatemore efficiently at national level, she said.
PeterD’Huys, First Secretary for Development Cooperation of the BelgianEmbassy in Vietnam, stressed the importance of the VietnameseGovernment’s leadership role and the cooperative spirit among theGovernment, the UN and international donors to step up the UN’s entirereform process.-VNA
Signatories were the Vietnamese Minister of Planning and InvestmentBui Quang Vinh and representatives from 16 UN organisations and theInternational Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Serving as the framework of the UN-IOM cooperative programmes inVietnam, the plan will assist the Vietnamese government in achievingsustainable growth and equality for all people, providing access to keyservices and social protection, and enhancing public governance andparticipation.
Addressing the ceremony, Minister Vinhsaid the plan aims to manage and utilise UN official developmentassistance effectively to meet Vietnam’s priorities for nationalsocio-economic development.
He said the plan alsoserves as an important document for both UN and Vietnamese agencies todetermine specific actions towards fulfilling the Hanoi Core Statementon aid effectiveness and the Delivering as One (DaO) initiative.
UN resident coordinator in Vietnam, Pratibha Mehta said the plan marksthe beginning of a new period of carrying out DaO in Vietnam, alongwith promoting the six common pillars of one plan, one budget, oneleader, one set of management practices, one voice and one UN greenhouse.
Vietnam is one of the first eight countriesto implement DaO, an initiative which helps UN organisations operatemore efficiently at national level, she said.
PeterD’Huys, First Secretary for Development Cooperation of the BelgianEmbassy in Vietnam, stressed the importance of the VietnameseGovernment’s leadership role and the cooperative spirit among theGovernment, the UN and international donors to step up the UN’s entirereform process.-VNA
