The World Bank - Urbanization Review: Financing Basic Services and Infrastructure - 2010

Project Description:

The Vietnam Urbanization Review was part of a series of prototypes under a global product called the Urbanization Review, being developed by the Finance, Economics, and Urban Development Department of the World Bank. The objective was to provide diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogues and investment priorities on urbanization by operationalizing the frameworks for urbanization policies developed in World Development Report (2009) – Reshaping Economic Geography and the Bank‘s new Urban and Local Government Strategy System of Cities: Harnessing Urbanization for Growth and Poverty Reduction.

To test the relevance and flexibility of the core diagnostic tools across countries at incipient, intermediate, and advanced stages of urbanization, prototype pilots were being initiated in India (incipient), Indonesia, China, and Vietnam (intermediate), and Colombia (advanced). MKE prepared report on the provision of local services and identify the main bottlenecks to achieving universal coverage of high quality services. The focus was on water, sanitation, electricity and road. MKE also developed data tables that covered all relevant variables.

 
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Vietnam Vietnam

Ministry of Education and Training & World Bank - Study in Student Achievements in Mathematics and Vietnamese Reading – Phase 1 Primary Teacher Development Project - 2007

Project Partner:

InTREC.

Project Description:

An international team of six education specialists provided technical input and expert advice into the creation of a detailed survey implementation master plan for a comprehensive survey of the Grade 5 cohort.

This included the design of questionnaires for 72,000 grade 5 students in 3,840 primary schools with teachers and students involved in the survey, revision and finalization of the questionnaires for training. They provided domestic consultants with guidelines on principles and methods of designing Mathematics and Vietnamese language tests for grade 5 students, teachers and principals with skill assessment guidelines.

 
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Vietnam Vietnam

World Bank - Higher Education Graduate Tracer Survey - 2005

Project Description:

Survey of 150,000 university graduates to compare recent graduate employment with the labor market. Aggregated the information into a system-wide national report to inform higher education management agencies and curricula reform.

 
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