A workshop was held on December 19 inHanoi to discuss ways to complete the legal framework for enhancingcommunity’s monitoring of investment in poverty reduction and hungereradication projects, in a bid to prevent corruption.
Participants recommended relevant bodies seek ways to raise community’sawareness of the benefits from the projects and the significance oftheir role in monitoring the implementation process.
Therecommendations were made on the basis of the result of a survey on theissue conducted by the Government Inspectorate and the Irish Embassy inVietnam in four localities representing the northern mountainous,central and Mekong Delta regions with 864 questionnaires.
According to the survey, 80.1 percent of the interviewees said theywould report to relevant bodies when they know about any corruptiveactivities while the rest chose to keep silent. This means manywrongdoings are not reported and dealt with properly.
Inaddition, 74.7 percent said community’s supervision did help detectwrongdoings in the implementation of poverty reduction and hungereradication projects, with the most common one being ineffective andwasteful investment.
The survey also showed that 28.9 percentof complaints and petitions are completely accurate and 71.1 percent arepartially right, reflecting the good performance of communitysupervision bodies in collecting the public opinions and reporting toauthorized agencies for investigations.
The VietnamFatherland Front chapter at the communal level was cited as thecommunity supervision body by 69.7 percent of the survey respondents,while 61.3 percent said it was the communal inspection body set up underthe national programme for poverty reduction 135 or people-electedrepresentatives.-VNA
