Vietnam, France step up collaboration in public services, administrative modernisation
The Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs and the French Ministry of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service on March 31 signed a cooperation agreement in the field of public services and administrative modernisation.
Vietnamese Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra (R) and French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery at the signing ceremony. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs and the French Ministry of Public Sector Transformation and theCivil Service on March 31 signed a cooperation agreement in the field of public services andadministrative modernisation.
The pact was inked by Vietnamese Minister of Home Affairs Pham ThiThanh Tra and French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery on behalf of the two agencies.
Under the agreement, the two sides will exchange experience andreal-life practices in a range of aspects, including digital government and e-governmentbuilding, digital transformation of public administration, management ofdocument and digital data, gender equality policy, and leadership capacitysupport.
They are expected to work together regarding related wageissues and human resources training; exchange experience in the organisation oflocal administrations in urban, rural, and island areas; and build a legalframework and a system of public service ethics control.
In her remarks at the signing ceremony, Tra said the signing of the agreement aims toboost experience sharing in administrative management and set out cooperationorientations in the time to come for mutual benefits.
She informed that at a working session before the event, the two sides and France’s Normandy University agreed to soon launch jointactivities under the pact, particularly serving the Vietnamese ministries’ capacitytraining for young leaders of localities and ministries in the 2022-2025 period.
For his part, Warnery affirmed the three-year agreement was the result of cooperation in the administrative field between the two countriesduring the past two decades. It has highly ambitious contents such as trainingissues, salaries of officials and civil servants, and public service ethics, headded.
The ambassador said France is ready to work with Vietnam inimplementing the contents, unveiling that in the near future, there will betraining courses on decentralisation and exchange of views from experts in digitaltransformation./.
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Vietnamese Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra (R) and French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery at the signing ceremony. (Photo: VNA) 
