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Annual Report 2003 : Moving the Poverty Reduction Agenda Forward: Priorities and Outcomes : Mekong

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Viet Nam

Strategy and Policy Dialogue.
ADB operations focused on the following: (i) sustainable growth through agriculture diversification and private sector development; (ii) inclusive social development with emphasis on health and education; (iii) good governance, especially public administration reform; and (iv) economic growth in the central region.

Policy-based operations focused on improving agriculture technology and promoting commercialization of agriculture sector outputs, on raising the efficiency of the financial sector and public administration, and on promoting the domestic private sector with a focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). National projects aimed to strengthen preventive health care and secondary education and to ensure rapid economic growth through investment in economic infrastructure to help reduce poverty. In the central region where poverty is prevalent, operations focused on combining livelihood improvement in upland and coastal communities with improvements in road, water, and urban infrastructure; on capacity building; and on provincial planning. ADB also helped the Government address the multiple dimensions of poverty in the region.

ADB assisted the Government in implementing its Public Administration Reform Master Program to build a professional, modern, effective, efficient public administration. ADB also supported preventive measures to avoid a recurrence of SARS. Technical assistance supported the Government in policy coordination, legal system development, nonbank financial sector improvement, secured transaction registration, and provincial implementation of the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy.

In 2003, ADB celebrated the tenth anniversary of its resumption of operations in Viet Nam by holding an art competition and exhibition for children with the theme “Viet Nam in 10 Years: My Vision.”

Loans and Technical
Assistance. Three loans totaling $179 million were approved. The first supports the implementation of the Reform Master Program with emphasis on modernization, e-government, and training of public officials. The other two focus on (i) developing water infrastructure comprising the Phuoc Hoa barrage and transfer canal to serve both irrigation and urban water supply requirements, and (ii) improving drainage, sanitation, and solid waste systems in five provincial towns and one district town in the central region. The loans also aim to strengthen local management capacities and the institutional framework for providing sustainable urban environmental services. ADB also approved 15 technical assistance projects and other grants totaling $8.6 million.

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