tailieunhanh - The reform of the civil service system as Viet Nam moves into the middle income country category

Vietnam has a vision to build a democratic, clean, strong and modernised civil service. It promulgated the Ordinance of Cadre and Civil Servants in 1998, revised it in 2000 and 2003 and recently promulgated the new Law on Cadre and Civil Servants that will come into effect on January 2010. The PAR Master Programme (2001­2010) also made efforts to improve the quality of the civil service and civil servant management, with mixed success. . | There is greater emphasis on management according to law and accountability has been enhanced through the introduction of practices such as the "chief executive accountability system," "service delivery promise system" and "accountability investigation system" at various levels of governments. Transparency has also been increased through the establishment of a "national leadership task force for opening to the public administrative affairs", "opening to the public policies system", "information opening system" and "system of government spokesmen". At the local level, administrative agencies are also testing more organisation and job specific staff appraisal systems. However, a key strategic constraint is the need to balance the pace of administrative reform, which is behind economic reform, and the need for social stability. Hence, reform has been and will continue to be implemented step by step within an overall goal. Although administrative reform of the past 20 years ‘put tens of millions of Chinese peoples interest at stake, and left several million people separated from their jobs, we have been able to maintain social and political stability, and ensured an orderly administrative reform’