Capacity Development for Planning Reform (CDPR) has supported the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) with two more identical training / workshops in Hanoi (August 2017) and recently in Ho Chi Min City (September 2017).
The participants were management officers of MPI at provincial, district and commune level. In total some 160 officers participated in lecture and discussions on international experiences on Spatial Planning and Public Investment Planning. Korean and South East Asian as well as relevant Belgian examples were highlighted. The second part of the training consisted of deepening knowledge on Public Procurement in Vietnam as well as  Public Private Partnership guidelines. Finally, the workshop concluded op the topic of Leadership and Management skills.CDPR is reaching to its completion end. Actually the ex post baseline survey is about to kick off (completion foreseen end Q4 of 2017). Preparations for ETR are ongoing and programmed in Q1 of 2018.