On the morning of June 7, at the headquarters of the General Statistics Office, Deputy General Director Nguyen Trung Tien and Mr. Hyunglk Ahn, General Director in charge of planning and coordination of the Korea Statistics Office (KOSTAT) signed the Terms of Reference for 6 Project "Supporting the General Statistics Office to improve the quality of official statistics, build a national statistical database and train Korean statistics" funded by the agency.
Welcoming and welcoming the delegation of the RoK Statistical Office to visit and work in Vietnam, Director General Nguyen Thi Huong emphasized that Vietnam and Korea have established diplomatic relations for more than 30 years and in 2022, the two sides have raised the bilateral relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership. Within the framework of the close cooperation relationship between the two countries, the cooperation relationship between the two agencies is also increasingly strong. The General Statistics Office has received a lot of technical support and experience sharing from the Korea Statistical Office over the past 20 years to improve statistical capacity.
In 2022, the General Statistics Office and the Korea Statistical Office officially launched the project "Supporting the General Statistics Office to improve the quality of official statistics, build a national statistical database, and train staff". The project will be implemented in 4 years from 2022-2025 and 2022. The project has achieved some good results such as: Successfully building the overall project master plan for the period 2022-2025; Research and learn to build a statistical quality management system for the General Statistics Office and organize 4 training courses for civil servants of the General Statistics Office…
In 2023, the Project will focus on the following areas: (i) Building a statistical quality management system; (ii) Plan to build an Administrative Data Management System; (iii) Training in statistics; (iv) Provide equipment for the statistical quality management system.
Also at the reception ceremony, Director General Nguyen Thi Huong shared the plan to organize an international conference on ecosystem management, data governance and data custody on August 16, 8 in Vietnam and wished that the Korea Statistical Office would pay attention and send experienced experts to the conference.
On this occasion, Mr. Hyungik Ahn, Director General in charge of Statistical Policy, Korea Statistical Office emphasized that thanks to the active support of the General Statistics Office, Korea Statistical Office has successfully implemented many activities in recent years. At the same time, he expressed his agreement with the development of statistical quality management systems as well as systems for administrative data management. In order to be able to build the above systems, it needs the active support and coordination of the two sides, Mr. Hyungik Ahn believes that the TOR 2023 Project will achieve the set targets and be successful…
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Deputy General Director Nguyen Trung Tien said that over the past 20 years, the two statistical agencies have implemented many cooperation activities to strengthen and tighten the relationship between the two sides such as exchanging many high-level delegations, sharing statistical experience and especially KOSTAT has implemented 02 technical assistance projects for the General Statistics Office, of which 01 project and 2013 project were completed to help the General Statistics Office improve its capacity in 01.
The Deputy Director General wished that KOSTAT would stick to the Master Plan, work closely with the GSO's focal point to successfully build a statistical quality management system, meet the requirements of statistical quality management and assessment of Vietnam Statistics, and at the same time provide equipment suitable for the information technology environment at the General Department. In addition, jointly with relevant units at the General Department to propose a plan to build an administrative data management system as well as successfully organize 4 training courses on statistics.
With the spirit of cooperation and responsibility of the parties, Deputy Director General Nguyen Trung Tien believes that the GSO and the Korea Statistical Office will closely coordinate, allocate resources and create the most favorable conditions for the successful implementation of the 2023 activities of this technical assistance project.
Also at the signing ceremony, Mr. Hyungik Ahn, General Director in charge of Statistical Policy, Korea Statistical Office, said that Vietnam is ranked first in the top 10 Southeast Asian countries with trade exchanges with Korea and is a key cooperation country of the Korean Government. In the field of statistics, the two countries have had many exciting exchanges, with more than 40 activities. In 2022, the Statistical Cooperation Project between the two countries was officially implemented and many activities have been successfully implemented such as consulting, statistical quality management; On the basis of the achieved results, in the coming time, the project will aim to build a statistical quality management system in line with international standards and the actual situation of Vietnam./.
