PrintNIRAS Finland involved in a development programme in Vietnam
The Quang Tri Rural Development Programme hopes to revolutionise the
province’s socio-economic development planning with new software.
Socio-economic development planning is an annual event in the
municipalities, districts and provinces of Vietnam. The activity requires
extensive use of physical, social, economic, environmental and
administrative data and the establishment of socio-economic target
indicators. The collection of data is tedious and complicated as each
village, municipality and district maintains and updates its own database
manually. The result is uncoordinated data; reliability and consistency are
a major problem.
Storage and consolidation of data across different units
The Quang Tri Rural Development Programme, who uses the
consultancy services of NIRAS Finland, and the province’s statistics office
came up with the idea of developing software to store and consolidate all
of this data with the aim of ensuring data consistency across
administrative units. Target indicators stored in the system can be updated
quarterly and used to monitor compliance.
English and Vietnamese versions of the software have been successfully
developed and an online ‘help’ facility makes it user-friendly. Training
courses were held across the prov-ince to test the software. Feedback
resulted in minor modifications and the software is now ready for use and
widely accepted. The next step is adoption of the software by Quang
Tri Province.
For further information please contact
Jose A. Ruiz, Jr., joeruiz.qtrdp@gmail.com
Institution and Planning Advisor
QTRDP
