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EC helps improve planning capacity
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) on Mar. 30 reviewed the main achievements of Component 5 of the European Technical Programme for Vietnam (ETV2) in assistance to Vietnam’s planning sector.
Speaking at the event, Truong Van Doan, Permanent Deputy Minister of MPI and head of the ETV2 Project Steering Board, thanked the European Commission for the technical assistance programme.
He said ETV2 is a technical assistance umbrella programme funded by the EC in cooperation with the Government of Vietnam.
The aim of ETV2 is to provide technical assistance to the Vietnamese Government’s key financial and economic institutions in its current reform drive under the 2001-2010 socio-economic development plan and in line with the Government’s Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy.
Component 5 – statistical analysis and policy tool - of the ETV2 programme has helped the MPI in working out proper and transparent policies, strategies, plans and laws, improving the quality of MPI’s decisions in order to perfect the forecast and information and data analysis and managment system as well as upgrade MPI staff members’ skills.
According to the Project Management Board, the EC provides funding amounting to a total of more than 11 million EUR for ETV2, including approximately 1.15 million EUR for Component 5.
ETV2 was launched at the end of 2005 and will come to an end in April 2009.
On this occasion, Deputy Minister Doan presented the insignia “For the Cause of Vietnam’s Planning Sector” to Vu Tuan Anh, representative of the EC in Vietnam; Sylvie Zaitra, head of the ETV2 international consultative group; Michael Colledege, main expert of Component 5 of ETV2 and Willy Van Den Berghe, head of the cooperation section of the EC in Vietnam./.
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