UN, Vietnam to Renew Five Year Cooperation Plan

UN, Vietnam to Renew Five Year Cooperation Plan

In the five years’ time, UN organisations in Vietnam will co-operate with the Vietnamese Government to promote fairer economic policies, increasing the possibility of accessing social welfare services.

Representatives from Vietnam’s governmental agencies and organisations of the UN, donors and non-governmental organisations reviewed this plan at a seminar on March 7. Under the title of UN Development Assistance Frame (UNDAF), the document was developed to identify fields in which further co-ordination and co-operation between the Government and UN organisations in developing and supervising the programme for the 2006-2010 period.

Jordan Ryan, permanent co-ordinator of the UN in Vietnam, said that UNDAF had identified a development vision for the next five years in accordance with national strategies and promoted the values of the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals. This is an unparalleled co-operation activity to identify joint priorities which need further co-operation between the UN and the Vietnamese Government to bring greater change to the Vietnamese people, especially poor and vulnerable people.

At the seminar, UN organisations in Vietnam agreed on how to co-ordinate with ministries and governmental agencies to improve national development assistance and aid regulation.

The organisations are accessing development with people acting as the centre on the basis of the rights suitable with goals and principles of the Millennium Declaration. The main objectives of the Declaration, in which Vietnam is a signatory and the Millennium Development Goals, include an unlimited development in economic growth and poverty reduction. Also, they have created fundamental social values on the basis of peace, solidarity, tolerance and respect for nature.

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