Viet Nam achieving the millennium development goals

Viet Nam achieving the millennium development goals

June 20, 2013

This first national report reviews the implementation of MDGs. The report focuses on presenting the achievements, analyzing reasons for success and identifying emerging challenges to reach each goal, and offers policy recommendations to accelerate the effective implementation of MDGs, in line with the UN’s Millennium Declaration and Viet Nam’s Socio-economic Development Strategy.

The report is prepared on the basis of the reports made by the governmental agencies and some mass organizations such as Ministry of Planning and Investment; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Home Affairs; Ministry of Education and Training; Ministry of Health; Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs; Ministry of Culture and Information; Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; Committee for Ethnic Minority; National Committee for Advancement of Vietnamese Women; Committee for Population, Family and Children; and the General Statistics Office. The report has also received contributions from many international and national organizations and experts. A number of workshops were organized to gather comments from international organizations in Ha Noi, governmental agencies, central provinces and cities for the report. The consultations with the public were held in several provinces, in some mass social organizations.

The figures in this report were supplied by the General Statistics Office. The report also uses data provided by several international organizations and Vietnamese governmental agencies.

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