1. VIETNAM STATISTICAL DEVELOPMET STRATEGY 2011-2020, VISION TO 2030 (VSDS) Presented by: Nguyen Van Doan Director, Institute of Statistical Science GSO December, 2012 GSO

2. CONTENTS Context Building process Main contents of VSDS Implementation progress GSO

3. International context: Deeper and wider international integration; Deeper and wider international integration; Knowledge economy and global value chains; Knowledge economy and global value chains; Challenges facing the regional and international statistical community; Challenges facing the regional and international statistical community; Support of Paris21 to build national statistical development strategies Support of Paris21 to build national statistical development strategies Domestic context: New development stage of Vietnam; New development stage of Vietnam; Vietnam's Socio-Economic Development Strategy Vietnam's Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2011-2020; Monitoring and evaluation based on evidence Monitoring and evaluation based on evidence The mission of Vietnam Statistics The mission of Vietnam Statistics Vietnam Statistical Development Strategy 2011-2020. Vietnam Statistical Development Strategy 2011-2020. 1. CONTEXT GSO

4. 2. BUILDING PROCESS of VSDS 5 phases GSO Phase 1 Starting building the VSDS Phase 3 Identifying the Mission and Vision Phase 4 Developing the Action Plans; Phase 2 Assessing the VSS Phase 5 : Approving, Disseminating the VSDS

5. Studying the materials : Studying the materials : Paris21 Paris21 Designing the roadmap to build the VSDS Mobilizing the resources: Mobilizing the resources: National resources; National resources; International organizations’ resources. International organizations’ resources. Establishing the Strategy building unit: Establishing the Strategy building unit: The government: political support; The government: political support; The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI): The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI): Establishing the Draft Board including 17 members Establishing the Draft Board including 17 members Chairman: Deputy Minister of MPI; Chairman: Deputy Minister of MPI; Members: GSO, MPI, key ministries and Provinces. Members: GSO, MPI, key ministries and Provinces. GSO Phase 1 Starting building the VSDS

6. Evaluating 10 fields: (1) Information dissemination policy and the needs of users ; (2) Legal framework for statistical activities; (3) Institutional framework and coordination activities; (4) Quality of economic statistics; (5) Quality of population, social and environmental statistics; (6) Information Technology and Communications; (7) Human Resource Development Policy; (8) Statistical material and technical facilities; (9) Financial resources and coordination of funding programs; (10) Statistical system of Vietnam and some other nations. GSO Phase 2 Assessing the VSS

7. Assessment tools: Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) ; General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) ; Extended standards. Human resource: 01 international expert; 14 national experts; Institute of Statistical Science. Assessment process: Training; Consulting; Drafting the report; Reading the assessment; Holding the workshop and taking the critique; completing the report. GSO Phase 2 Assessing the VSS (2)

8. Mission: to produce and disseminate timely, accurate, adequate, objective and transparent statistical information, and to provide the statistical services effectively for serving the assessment and forecast of activities, the strategy and policy planning as well as the socio-economic planning of the Party and State organs, and for meeting the needs of statistical information of the other organizations and individuals. Vision: To meet the national and international needs of information perfectly, and to become the leading statistical organization in Southeast Asia in 2030. GSO Phase 3 Identifying the Mission and Vision

9. 09 action plans: (1) Improving the institution, organization, legal framework and coordination in the State Statistical system; (2) Strengthening the research with the methodology and process in accordance with international standards; (3) Renewing and improving the quality of information processing; (4) Renewing and improving the quality of information collection; (5) Strengthening the activities of analysis and forecast; (6) Developing the statistical human resource; (7) Applying and developing the information technology in statistics; (8) Ensuring the material facilities and finance for statistical activities; (9) Improving the effect of international cooperation in statistical activities. GSO Phase 4 Developing the Action Plans

10. 10 Assessing: Ministry of Justice; Office of the Government. Approving: The Prime Minister approved the Decision No 1803/QĐ-TTg Disseminating: 02 national conferences; Press release, communications Some publications: …. GSO Phase 5 Approving, Disseminating the VSDS

11. 3. MAIN CONTENTS of VSDS 3.1. Point of view 3.2. Objectives 3.3. Solutions 3.4. Action plans GSO

12. 3.1. Point of view 3.1. Point of view Implementing the functions, duties and authorities of the Vietnam Statistics; Complying with the 10 principles governing international statistical activities by the UN; Renewing and improving the Vietnam statistical system to be more modern and effective with high-quality data; Synchronizing, standardizing, “processing” and computerizing all the statistical processes; Developing rapidly and stably with a good roadmap; Closely and harmoniously combining between the short-term and long-term objectives as well as between the rapid and sustainable development; Ensuring the conditions of the Strategy’s feasibility including Legal basis, organizational structure, human resource, finance and material facilities. 12 GSO

13. 3.2. Objectives 3.2. Objectives General objectives The rapid and sustainable development of Vietnam Statistics based on improving the organizational system, the quality of human resource; the advanced statistical methods using modern technology. The establishment of centralized, unified, coherent and effective national information system at the intermediate level in 2020 and at the advanced level in 2030. Specific objectives Developing the system of ministerial statistical indicators: completing all the 3 systems in 2020, meeting the 6 quality criteria and ensuring the comparison with the international standards. Establishing the national information system with the coordination, sharing and connection among the organizations; building the database; building the socio-economic statistical data warehouse in 2020. Improving the SNA implementation; implementing the GDDS and applying the SDDS. 13 GSO

14. 3.3. Solutions 3.3. Solutions Group 1. Improving the legal framework and coordination mechanism Amending and supplementing the Statistics Law and the relevant documents; strengthening the statistical inspection system; Building and promulgating the document of information coordinating, exchanging, sharing and connecting mechanism; Building and promulgating the policy of statistical information dissemination; Establishing the legal basis to develop some statistical services. 14 GSO

15. 3.3. Solutions (2) 3.3. Solutions (2) Group 2. The statistical work Improving the capacity of scientific research in statistics; Compiling and disseminating the materials of statistical methodology; Building and standardizing the statistical processes; Improving the statistical methodologies and sampling survey methods; Improving the checklists; Building and publishing the important balance sheets; Expanding the application of SNA; Renewing and improving the quality of statistical information collection; Closely combining among the following solutions: - Effectively collecting the information to measure the quality indicators and synthetic indicators; - Renewing the activities of processing, synthesizing and disseminating statistical information; - Strengthening the statistical analysis and forecast. 15 GSO

16. 3.3. Solutions (3) 3.3. Solutions (3) Group 3. The application and development of Information Technology in Statistics Applying IT in statistics to improve the effect of statistical activities and establishing the national information system with the computerization; Synchronously investing the IT infrastructure; E-survey; developing the application software; Building the centralized database and statistical data warehouse at the GSO and ministries; Developing the e-government applications of the State Statistical system. 16 GSO

17. 3.3. Solutions (4) 3.3. Solutions (4) Group 4. The organization and human resource The centralized statistics: renewing the organizational structure with the specialization of statistical activities; The ministerial statistics: improving the organization; The statistical civil servants in accordance with the standards regulated in the Statistics Law; Establishing the statistical collaborator force; Supplementing and improving the standards of statistical civil servants; Renewing the activities of training, recruiting, managing and using the professional and enthusiastic statistical human resource; Expanding the size and improving the quality of statistical training activities;; Training the statistical human resource at graduate and postgraduate degrees. 17 GSO

18. 3.3. Solutions (5) 3.3. Solutions (5) Group 5. The other solutions Strengthening the activities of scientific research ; Improving the mechanism managing the financial resource; International cooperation; Developing programs to disseminate the Statistics Law; Supervise, monitor the implementation of Strategy; Incorporating the activities to implement the Strategy with annual working and competition programs; Reviewing and making the preliminary and final summing-up of the implementation of Strategy. 18 GSO

19. 3.4. ACTION PLAN 19 GSO AP1: Improving the institution, legal framework… AP2: Strengthening the activities of scientific research, applying AP3: Renewing and improving the quality of the statistical data collection AP4: Renewing and improving the quality of the activities of processing and disseminating statistical information); AP5: Strengthening the activities of statistical analysis and forecast AP6: Applying and developing the IT… AP7: Developing the statistical human resource AP8: Expanding and improving the effect of international cooperation in statistics AP9: Investing the material facilities and mobilizing the financial resource

20. 3.4. ACTION PLAN (detail) 20 GSO 09 Action Plan 45 main Actions 03 main activities 07 main Activities 04 main activities 11 main activities 04 main activities 04 main activities 04 main activities More than 100 detail activities

21.  Disseminating VSDS: National conferences; National conferences; Reportages Reportages Publications Publications  Establishing the National Steering committee Including 17 members Including 17 members Chairman: Deputy Minister of MPI; Members: GSO, MPI, key ministries and provinces. 4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (1) 21 GSO

22. 1. Planning to implement the VSDS The Decision No 662/QĐ-KHĐT approved by the Minister of MPI Contents of PI: The names of activities (>100 activities); The implementation time; The implementation units; The expected products. 2. The conference calling the technical support to implement the VSDS 3. Developing the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (M&E) 4. Some ongoing activities: The statistical work: Researching and applying the international methodologies; The legal framework: Amending the Statistics Law; Compiling the policy of statistical information dissemination… … 4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (2) 22 GSO

23. 4. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Developing the M&E Framework; Developing the M&E Framework; Evaluation Process: five key activities Evaluation Process: five key activities Baseline survey; Baseline survey; Bi-Annual Performance Reviews; Bi-Annual Performance Reviews; Annual Performance Reviews; Annual Performance Reviews; Mid-Term Performance Evaluation; Mid-Term Performance Evaluation; Final Evaluation Final Evaluation 4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (3) 23 GSO

24.  The building process of VSDS : Based on the 5-phase roadmap of Paris21; Supported by political high level: Primer Minister, MPI leaders; Technical supported by Paris21, UNDP, UNFPA, WB, etc.  The implementation of VSDS: The detailed action plans (>100 activities); The close monitoring and evaluation; In general, the VSDS implemented in the past year: In accordance with the roadmap; Satisfactory initial result; Improved position of the Vietnam Statistics; … Summary 24 GSO

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