Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Vuong DinhHue and Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)Ritsu Nacken explored the possibility of cooperation in designingpopulation-related policies during their working session in Hanoi onMarch 31.
Hue was appreciative of the UNFPA’ssupport to Vietnam in population work and socio-economic developmentover the past 40 years.
The commission wants towork together with agencies at home and abroad, including the UNFPA, tobetter do its job of policy counseling, especially those regarding theimprovement of population quality, and the design of policies andstrategies appropriate to the “aging population” period, he said.
UNFPA has been active in Viet Nam since 1977 through the first JointCooperative Programme with the Government covering population anddevelopment, providing a total assistance of 191.3 million USD.
It has worked to improve public access to quality sexual andreproductive health services, supported the collection and use ofhigh-quality population data, facilitated policy dialogue, and helpedthe Government in developing, implementing and monitoring evidence-basedpolicies related to sexual and reproductive health, population anddevelopment, and gender.
It is undertaking theProgramme 5 for the 2012-2016 period with a commitment worth 33.1million USD to the Vietnamese Government, focusing on population anddevelopment, social welfare for the elderly, reproductive health andgender.
This year, the UNFPA and the commissionplan the organisation of a workshop that will feature the impacts ofdemographic changes on Vietnam’s socio-economic development –international experience and lessons.
In the comingyears, they will work on a report “Demographic changes in Vietnam –policy orientations to sustainable development”.-VNA
Hue was appreciative of the UNFPA’ssupport to Vietnam in population work and socio-economic developmentover the past 40 years.
The commission wants towork together with agencies at home and abroad, including the UNFPA, tobetter do its job of policy counseling, especially those regarding theimprovement of population quality, and the design of policies andstrategies appropriate to the “aging population” period, he said.
UNFPA has been active in Viet Nam since 1977 through the first JointCooperative Programme with the Government covering population anddevelopment, providing a total assistance of 191.3 million USD.
It has worked to improve public access to quality sexual andreproductive health services, supported the collection and use ofhigh-quality population data, facilitated policy dialogue, and helpedthe Government in developing, implementing and monitoring evidence-basedpolicies related to sexual and reproductive health, population anddevelopment, and gender.
It is undertaking theProgramme 5 for the 2012-2016 period with a commitment worth 33.1million USD to the Vietnamese Government, focusing on population anddevelopment, social welfare for the elderly, reproductive health andgender.
This year, the UNFPA and the commissionplan the organisation of a workshop that will feature the impacts ofdemographic changes on Vietnam’s socio-economic development –international experience and lessons.
In the comingyears, they will work on a report “Demographic changes in Vietnam –policy orientations to sustainable development”.-VNA
