Beschreibung der Beschaffung
Since the adoption of the SDGs in New York in 2015, the Vietnamese government has been actively working towards their implementation. The process is coordinated by the Department of Science, Education, National Resources and Environment at the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI). The SDG process has been politically anchored at the National Council for Sustainable Development and Competitiveness, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and with the MPI Minister as permanent vice-chair. With the Prime Minister's adoption of the 2017 National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Vietnam has nationalised the SDG agenda and created the legal basis to make commitments to the international community. The NAP covers 17 SDGs with 115 targets relevant to Vietnam and establishes responsibilities for their implementation. To monitor the implementation of the NAP, the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) developed 158 indicators that measure progress in implementing the 17 SDGs. Responsibility for monitoring and reporting on the indicators was assigned to 22 ministries and government agencies in 2019. Since many of the indicators in Vietnam do not yet have a methodological framework or values, the previous GIZ programme has supported the development of new indicators, particularly in the areas of green growth, gender, and people with disabilities.
Under the predecessor programme ‘Macroeconomic Reforms/Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Growth’, GIZ supported the Vietnamese process on SDG implementation and monitoring (Output F: ‘The capacities of the Vietnamese government to implement the 2030 Agenda are improved’). Activities until the end of the programme in December 2018 focused on supporting partners in coordinating the process, engaging stakeholders, developing the NAP, developing provincial and sectoral action plans, developing the indicators to monitor the implementation of the NAP, and preparing and presenting the first Voluntary National Review in 2018 at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum in New York.
While the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges of SDG implementation, it has also opened up new opportunities for a post-Covid-19 agenda that could focus on building or strengthening sustainable and resilient social and economic structures. While the pandemic has not directly affected access to health, education or food in Vietnam so far, the country, like many others, has been severely affected by declining government revenues, falling private investment and rising underemployment. Despite the comparatively high level, economic growth in 2020, at 2.91 percent, fell short of expectations and averages in recent years. The challenges of financing the NAP have increased accordingly. At the same time, the pandemic holds the potential to anchor the SDGs more firmly in strategies and policies for socio-economic recovery. This could not only promote a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable recovery, but also increase policy coherence.
Objective of the SDG Output: the overall programme has recently been amended by an additional output focusing on SDG monitoring and implementation. The additional output 5 reads as follows: Conditions for whole-of-government implementation and monitoring of the SDGs, taking into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, are improved. To achieve the output, activities are planned in three areas of action.
— strengthen monitoring and reporting on NAP implementation at international, national and subnational levels;
— support MPI in identifying and mobilizing resources for SDG implementation in Vietnam for sustainable post-Covid-19 recovery;
— accompanying the national stakeholder engagement process for coordination in SDG implementation among government and non-government actors.
The primary target group is the by the Department of Science, Education, National Resources and Environment at the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) as well as the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Vietnam. Further target groups include other national and subnational government agencies, the private sector, research institutions as well as civil society organisations.
The programme builds on the lessons learned from the predecessor project. The medium-term to long-term effectiveness of the programme will depend on the integration of sustainability aspects into the country's socio-economic planning processes and the interlinking of these aspects with financing processes (public budget and private sector). The Vietnamese administration's strong emphasis on legal frameworks and planning processes increases the likelihood of inputs remaining effective over the long term. Contributing systematically to national policy-making processes requires a strong and constant cooperation with relevant government bodies, first and foremost with the MPI.