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JICA REINFORCES HELPING MINISTRY OF FINANCE

ENHANCE

PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPACITY

Hoa Binh, 13 December 2011 - The Ministry of Finance (MOF) of Vietnam and the

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide a three day training in Hoa

Binh for 30 officials of MOF and 4 local officials in order to strengthen the project

management capacity focusing on Evaluation, as the final one in a sequence of

workshops on Project Cycle Management for MoF. The course covers a quick practice

for evaluation on a JICA-funded project namely “Strengthening Healthcare Services

Provision in Hoa Binh Province”.

The course is an in-depth workshop to provide standard and basic knowledge on steps,

methodology and skills for practical project evaluation, in the form of both standard

curriculum and customized case studies and group works, under participatory approach

which proves to be efficient by motivating every single trainee to work.

Replying to the need and request of MoF in training the freshmen on project management

which is growing year by year, the courses are made to help fresh young staff from

various department of MoF, to understand how to manage project, in particular, to

evaluate a project. Taking about the course, Mr. Uchida Tsutomu, Senior Advisor on Aid

Coordination, also lecturer of the previous courses, said “The deep training and practice

on project evaluation is necessary for the staff to carry out all official tasks associated

with project management, not only individual needs but also institutional needs for

developing organizational capacity.”

Under the same framework, besides this above course, the previous courses focusing on

Project Cycle Management – Participatory Planning, and Monitoring and Evaluation,

were launched for MoF in this March, June and August. JICA also supported sending

some MOF officials to the Philippines to have advanced project management training, in

March, July and September.

This technical assistance is implemented under the framework of agreement between

MOF and JICA which is effective between March 1st, 2011 and March 31

st, 2012. Further

capacity building activities will be discussed between both side to enhance the public

finance management capacity of MoF staff, including macro economic management,

public investment (with emphasis on SOEs), debt management (with emphasis on local

government) under new technical cooperation (expected to be launched in next years).

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