Strengthening the Coordination Between the State Management Agencies Responsible for the Service Sector

Strengthening the Coordination Between the State Management Agencies Responsible for the Service Sector

June 14, 2013

This report is part of a larger project funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on “Capacity Strengthening to Manage and Promote Trade in Services in Viet Nam in the Context of Integration” (or “Trade in Services” Project VIE/02/009). The Ministry of Planning and Investment is the national executing agency of the Project, while the Department of Trade and Services of the MPI is serving as the implementing agency. The Project is focused on four outcomes: (i) providing technical support to formulate a comprehensive development strategy for the services sector in the context of Viet Nam’s international integration to ensure a long-term inter-agency and cross-sector coordination on policy formulation and implementation in the services sector; (ii) improving information flows on trade in services; (iii) assessing the competitiveness of service sub-sectors and the impact of services trade liberalization; and (iv) enhancing human resource development in trade in services. 

According to the specific objectives and implementation plan of the first outcome, the Project has conducted the present study: “Strengthening the Coordination between the State Management Agencies Responsible for the Service Sector.” It addresses the current organizational system of the state agencies responsible for services and trade in services in Viet Nam, their functions, duties, authority and responsibilities; offers an in-depth review of the relevant legal documents regulating the services sectors’ state management and the actual coordination practice in the sector; and provides options and recommendations to improve the coordination between ministries/agencies in charge of services sector development & management, and of trade in services in the country.

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