Vietnamese MPs study international experiences on parliamentary representation and
organization of constituency offices

January 22, 2006. A group of Vietnamese MPs and officials of the Office of the National Assembly visited UK to learn about  representative practices and constituency offices in this country. The study visit was conducted from 4 to 10 of December 2005.
 

The last front page of VIE/02/007 Project website in 2005

See the last front page of our project website in 2005.
 

Engaging Parliaments in the Millennium Development Goals: a Key Part of National MDG Strategies

December 30, 2005. A new report of the Project available in Vietnamese and English languages. More...
 

Fourth Parliamentary Partnership Forum (PPF) held

December 3, 2005. Business Law, Investment Law, Bill on Anti-HIV/AIDS, Law on Anti-corruption and Environment Law were among the key topics at yesterday's Parliamentary Partnership Forum, which was organized in Sofitel Plaza by the Office of the National Assembly with the support of the VIE/02/007 Project. More...
 

Manual for Local Elected Leadership in Vietnamese Language

December 12, 2005. This manual represents the Vietnamese language version of the Training for Elected Leadership Series of Manuals – a set of 13 volumes – published originally in the English language by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS-Habitat) in 1995.
 

Report facilitates engagement of parliamentarians in Millennium Development Goals

November 30, 2005. By commission of the ONA/UNDP Project VIE/02/007 a report titled "Legislatures in Pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals: A Key Part of National MDG Strategies" has been completed.
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Gender Mainstreaming in Parliaments: Report prepared for Vietnamese MPs

November 20, 2005. By commission of the ONA/UNDP Project VIE/02/007 a report on gender mainstreaming in parliaments is being finalized. It is expected that the report will be published and distributed to Vietnamese MPs by the end of December. More...
 

AUSAid in Project’s Office

November 4, 2005.  The new AUSAid Officer Damien Coke visited Project Support office. Damien is replacing Sandra Henderson, with whom we had a very intensive and good cooperation during the last two years of project work. Damien as well as Sandra will be in charge of Political Affairs and consequently is interested in parliamentary developments in Vietnam. During his visit, Damien had the opportunity to learn about our Project activities.
 

Project’s new partners in SDC, DfID and CIDA

November 1, 2005. Several officials in our Project donor partners have arrived over the last summer. We want to give them a warm welcome and to wish them a very successful and happy stay in Hanoi. More...
 

Manual on Policy and Management for Local Elected Bodies

October 26, 2005. A new edited version of the "Policy and Management for PCs Deputies" Training Manual produced by the ONA-UNDP Project VIE/98/H01in 2002 has been recently finalized. More...
 

ONA staff attend course on management of training and personnel development

October 25, 2005. The course, organized by Asian Institute of Technologies Center in Vietnam, was attended by four ONA officials. They all have been recently assigned to the newly created ONA Resource Center for Elected Representatives. More...
 

Farewell to Shane Sheils

October 20, 2005. Shane Sheils, the UNDP Programme Officer overseeing our Project for the last 18 months has left Vietnam. He and his family will be stationed now in Sri Lanka, where Shane will be working in UNDP as an Assistant Resident Representative in charge of the Governance Portfolio. More...
 

People's Council staff improve management skills in Dak-lak

September 19, 2005. With the support of the ONA-UNDP VIE/02/007 Project, between September 12 and 16 a training course on management skills was conducted for 25 officials from 9 provincial PCs’ Offices. More...
 

NA Chairman met with UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam

August 30, 2005. Yesterday the Chairman of the National Assembly – Mr. Van An met with UNDP Resident Representative Jordan Ryan. The meeting was reported today on the front page of Viet Nam News.
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People's Council staff from 19 provinces improve management skills

Agust 30, 2005. With the support of the ONA-UNDP VIE/02/007 Project two training courses on management skills were conducted for 39 officials from 19 provincial PCs’ Offices. These courses were conducted as part of a systematic effort to strengthen the capacity of the support offices of provincial People, which were established last year, following Decree N° 133/2004/NĐ-CP. More...
 

Project supports improvement of knowledge and skills of People’s Councils Deputies

August 6, 2005. With the support of the ONA-UNDP Project VIE/02/007 on August 1 - 4 the Office of the National Assembly had organized two training courses for provincial People's Council deputies. Participating in this year's courses were 56 deputies from 29 provinces. The courses were also attended by two ONA staff, who have been assigned to the Resource Center, that was newly established with the support of the Project. More...
 

Parliamentary Partnership Forum (PPF) has become a regular event

June 16, 2005. Today more than one hundred people from donors' community and diplomatic agencies in Hanoi came to the main hall of the Office of the National Assembly for what had became a regular event after each NA's session: the Parliamentary Partnership Forum.  More...
 

Basic concepts on parliamentary institutions first published in Vietnamese

June 10, 2005. 'Parliamentary Institutions: Basic Concepts' is the first title of the 'Project Technical Series' launched in 2005. It will be part of a wider strategy of knowledge sharing and promotion of self-learning initiatives involving Vietnamese MPs and parliamentary officials.
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"How to improve the representative and supportive functioning of provincial MP delegations”
Report presented to the ONA

May 31, 2005.  Yesterday a half day workshop was held at the Office of the National Assembly to discuss the findings and suggestions of the report "How to improve the representative and supportive functioning of provincial MP delegations”. The report was commissioned at the end of year 2004 to a team of Vietnamese consultants leaded by Mr. Nguyen Tien Lap of Investconsult. More...
 

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Project Technical Series of Publications supports the strengthening of representative bodies in Vietnam

May 12, 2005. During the year 2005 an important list of publications supporting the strengthening of representative bodies in Vietnam will see the light. The first title to be published will be the Parliamentary Institutions: Basic Concepts and it will be ready in the coming month of June. More...
 

Project Stake holders met to review 2004 performance and to consider 2005 plans

May 11, 2005. The VIE/02/007 Annual Project Review (APR) Meeting was held yesterday 11 of May at the headquarters of the Office of the National Assembly (ONA) in 35 Ngo Quyen Street, Hanoi. The meeting was attended by all the Project stakeholders – ONA, UNDP, SDC, DfID and authorities from People’s Councils of the 15 Provinces involved in project implementation. More...
 

VIE/02/007 supports a UNDP assessment on Grassroots Democracy Decree

28 April, 2005.  Yesterday the Project VIE/02/007 was visited by Pamela McElwee team leader of a research group that is currently assessing the grassroots democracy decree. Her work has been commissioned by UNDP Vietnam and its coordinated from the UNDP Country Economist Unit. More...
 

UNDP contributes to NA's research capacities on UN Conventions and Treaties

April 7, 2005. A comprehensive compilation of United Nations Conventions and Treaties was presented to Vu Mao, the National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman  by  Jordan Ryan, the UN Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam.

International Treaties and Roles of Legislatures: contributing to the lawmaking process at the NA

April 7, 2005. A workshop on the roles of legislatures in relation to international treaties was organized in Hanoi on April 5th and 6th. The activity was conducted jointly by the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee (NAFAC) and the ONA-UNDP Project VIE/02/007, also supported by SDC, DfID and CIDA.
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NDI visits Project office

27 March 2005.  The Project VIE/02/007 was visited last 24/03 by Mark Wallen and Raissa Tatad from the National Democratic Institute in a recent mission they had to Vietnam. Mark is the Country Director of the National Democratic Institute in Cambodia, based in Phnom Penh.  Raissa is a Senior Officer for Asia and she works at the NDI offices in Washington, D.C, USA. More...
 

2004 – A year of success

The project achieved 104% of its targets for the year.
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Supervisory capacity of elected ethnic minority deputies strengthened

February 15, 2005. With the support of the ONA-UNDP Project VIE/02/007 the Office of National Assembly together with the NA Ethnic Committee conducted a seminar on "Strengthening of the Supervisory Capacity of Elected Ethnic Minority Deputies". More...

Advocating “Gender Mainstreaming” in Parliamentary Work - 2004

February 10, 2005. During 2004 the project implemented a series of initiatives promoting Gender issues and their mainstreaming in parliamentary work, having in mind that the political establishment of Vietnam is currently considering the drafting of a Gender Equality Law. More... 

Project website consolidated before its first anniversary

January 31, 2005. Before its first anniversary, the VIE02007 Project website has been fully consolidated as one of the key sources of information on parliamentary development in Vietnam in English language. Achieving this situation has not been easy. A lot of efforts, partial mistakes and small successes have contributed to the current structure and image of our project website. More...

The project supports the NA Committee for Foreign Affairs in the development of the
law on international treaties

January 19, 2005. Today a meeting was held between UNDP-ONA Project VIE/02/007 and officers of the Department for Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly to discuss a plan of action to support the process of review and debate of the draft Law on International Treaties that was submitted by the Government to the parliament in the recent October-December Session. More...
 

SDC Country Director Walter Meyer left Vietnam

January 15, 2005. After more than four years of significant contribution to the development of Vietnam Walter Meyer has moved to a new position in Switzerland.
Mr. Meyer, the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency Country Director for Vietnam, has left his position in Hanoi last January 2005. He will be having new and also challenging tasks in Bern. More...

Secretaries General from Asia-Pacific Parliaments met in Vietnam to exchange experiences

January 6, 2005. Representatives from Australia, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia and Vietnam met in Ho Chi Minh City to exchange their experiences on parliamentary representation and relations with the Executive.

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NA Deputies and ONA officers exposed to international experience on budgetary oversight and the application of IT in parliamentary work

January 5, 2005. A Delegation of 6 MPs and 4 ONA staff led by Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Truong Quang Duoc paid a study visit to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand from 4 December 2004 to 15 December 2004 under the framework of the Project VIE/02/007with support of UNDP, CIDA, SDC and DFID. More...

VIE/02/007 Project staff on the move

January 5, 2005. Year 2005 started in the Project “Strengthening capacities of elected representative bodies in Vietnam” with few changes in our roster. More...