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VIETNAM LESSONS IN ADMINISTRATIVE

SIMPLIFICATION

• Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc

Chairman, Minister, Office of Government Director, Prime Minister’s Special Task Force Hanoi, November 2010

Political support:

• The project enjoyed a constant and strong political support from the top level

including the Prime Minister.

• Prime Minister signed over 30 directives to support implementation of project
• Build a broad-based political support for reforms, including all relevant stakeholders
• Communication is the key

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Quantitative target:

• Prime Minister assigned quantitative target to all participating bodies:

– at least 30% simplification ; – and 30% cost reduction

• Proof of strong committment from Government and Prime Minister
• Provide baseline for monitoring and evaluation
• Economic benefit is the key to ensure true reform

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Strong co-ordinating unit at the centre of government:

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OOG OOG

STF

Special Task Force Minister of OOG Minister of OOG

ACAPR

Advisory Council for AP Reform 2 Deputies

Secretariat

TF

VCCI CIEM VASEP AMCHAM EUROCHAM Others 58 Provinc es

TF

21 Ministri es

TF 5 Cities

OOG

Inventory Comments HR Office equipmentị

Prime Minister

WG X WG Land WG Edu

TCT

3 agencie s

Capacities in participating bodies:

• Recruit highly educated, experienced and motivated staff to work on reforms
• Train over 20,000 officials on inventory and review: train of trainer approach
• Develop standardize forms, guidelines for implementation

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Transparency and active involvement of stakeholders:

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Secretariat

WG X

Advisory Council

WG 1 WG 2 WG 3

STF

• peration

support Coordination and cooperation Strategic advice Member 6 Member 2 Member 4 Member… Member 1 Member 3 Member 5

Resources

Drawn on international experience

• Adopt international “best practice”
• Customize experiences to fit Vietnamese context
• Examples:

– Scope of reform: nationwide vs. pilot – Quantification of burden: modified SCM

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