Vietnam's $2.4 mln project to improve population data quality

People wait to get tested for Covid-19 in Go Vap District, HCMC, July 6, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

Vietnam launched a $2.4 million plus project Thursday to generate and use quality population and development data to promote evidence-based policy making and assessing progress in achieving Sustianable Development Goals.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will provide more than $1.9 million to implement the project and the Vietnamese government will provide the rest in counterpart funding.

The project, jointly implemented by the General Statistics Office, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Justice and the Parliamentary Committee for Social Affairs with technical assistance from UNFPA in Vietnam, will help Vietnam generate and utilise quality population and development data for the five year 2022-2026 period.

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