VIETNAM STATISTICAL DEVELOPMET STRATEGY 2011-2020, VISION TO 2030 (VSDS)

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

• Context
• Building process
• Main contents of VSDS
• Implementation progress

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1. CONTEXT

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

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

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

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Phase 2 Assessing the VSS
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.
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Phase 2 Assessing the VSS (2)

• 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.

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Phase 3 Identifying the Mission and Vision
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.
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Phase 4 Developing the Action Plans
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.
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Phase 5 Approving, Disseminating the VSDS

• Assessing
• Ministry of Justice
• Office of the Government.
• Approving
• The Prime Minister approved the Decision No
  1803/QÐ-TTg
• Disseminating
• 02 national conferences
• Press release, communications
• Some publications .

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3. MAIN CONTENTS of VSDS

• 3.1. Point of view
• 3.2. Objectives
• 3.3. Solutions
• 3.4. Action plans

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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 Strategys
  feasibility including Legal basis, organizational
  structure, human resource, finance and material
  facilities.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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3.4. ACTION PLAN
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
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3.4. ACTION PLAN (detail)
09 Action Plan
45 main Actions
04 main activities
04 main activities
04 main activities
04 main activities
04 main activities
11 main activities
04 main activities
03 main activities
07 main Activities
More than 100 detail activities
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4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (1)

• Disseminating VSDS
• National conferences
• Reportages
• Publications
• Establishing the National Steering committee
• Including 17 members
• Chairman Deputy Minister of MPI
• Members GSO, MPI, key ministries and provinces.

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4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (2)

• Planning to implement the VSDS
• The Decision No 662/QÐ-KHÐT approved by the
  Minister of MPI
• Contents of PI
• The names of activities (gt100 activities)
• The implementation time
• The implementation units
• The expected products.
• The conference calling the technical support to
  implement the VSDS
• Developing the Monitoring and Evaluation
  Framework (ME)
• 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

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4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (3)

• Monitoring and Evaluation (ME)
• Developing the ME Framework
• Evaluation Process five key activities
• Baseline survey
• Bi-Annual Performance Reviews
• Annual Performance Reviews
• Mid-Term Performance Evaluation
• Final Evaluation

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Summary

• 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 (gt100 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

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