SDG National Commitments Form: Submission #91

Title of commitment: NATIONAL COMMITMENT TO SDG TRANSFORMATION
Name of submitting Member State or Government: Viet Nam
Please indicate whether your commitment is intended to address SDG Progress at a national, regional or global level: National
Please outline briefly the commitment(s) made in the areas outlined above :
Priority areas for transformation and investment
i) Continue to innovate the growth model and promote private investment 
Continue to strongly and effectively innovate the growth model, restructure the economy, promote industrialization and modernization on a strong foundation of science, technology, innovation and high-quality human resources. Build a modern and strong national industry, including key foundational industries and leading high-tech industries.   
Develop and strengthen private sector to become an important driving force for economic development. Encourage the formation and development of large enterprises with strong potential, regional and international competitiveness. Implement policies and mobilize resources to support enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, improving their competitiveness, integration in the global market, identification of  new business and market trends. Expand the share of domestic inputs in manufacturing and production, and at the same time strengthen the link between FDI and domestic enterprises.
Transforming the growth model towards greening economic sectors and applying circular economy principles through efficiently utilizing natural resource and energy. 
ii) "Leave no one behind", strengthen social protection, sustainable employment, health system development, education and cultural development, and comprehensive human development; promote the transformation of the food system towards greater transparency, responsibility and sustainability
Place people in the center of the development process; mobilize the participation of stakeholders in the implementation of the SDGs and place greater focus on disadvantaged groups to eradicate poverty and narrow inequality through the active implementation of 03 National Target Programs. These include: sustainable poverty reduction, new rural development, and socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas, and formulation of  a national target program on cultural development. 
Promote the implementation of social security policies, especially for vulnerable and poor groups. Synchronously and comprehensively implement solutions for youth development, gender equality and advancement of women; fully protect children's rights; protect, care for and promote the role of the elderly. By 2030 aim to achieve: Reduction in the mortality rate of children under 5 years old to be below 15‰, that of children under 1 to be below 10‰, achieving 100% health insurance coverage for the elderly (with coverage for medical examinations, health treatment, at-home care, care within family, community and centralized facilities).  
Improve and innovate on management mechanisms, build a fair, quality, effective and internationally integrated health system. Implement universal health care coverage, provision of public health services, in particularly basic health services. Implement universal health insurance coverage, with the goal to achieve health insurance coverage of 95% of the population by 2030.
Accelerate the implementation of fundamental and comprehensive renovation and improve the quality of education and training, focusing on modernizing and changing the mode of education and training, especially higher education and vocational education, towards openness, flexibility, interconnection, modernity, international integration,  to meet the requirements of labor market development, create sustainable jobs and promote lifelong learning opportunities to meet the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and international integration. Ensure universal provision of preschool education and primary education, especially in hardship areas, ethnic minority areas, border, island areas and other special groups. By 2030, Viet  Nam's education will reach an advanced level in the region .
Transform comprehensively in the areas of cultural and human development. Build healthy cultural environment, improve institutional provisions and mechanisms to support cultural activities at all levels. Develop cultural and artistic activities towards improving the capacity for aesthetic and cultural enjoyment of the people, especially the youths and disadvantaged groups. By 2030, aim to provide at least 75% of people in remote, border, island, ethnic minority and mountainous areas with access to cultural activities .
Implement the National Action Plan to transform the food system in Viet Nam from production, processing, distribution, consumption towards greater transparency, accountability and sustainability by 2030; ensure food security and nutrition for the nation, contribute to exports and environmental protection, and respond to climate change.
iii) Achieve access to energy for all and strongly promote the transition to renewable energy
Formulate a new program on electricity supply in rural, mountainous and island areas to cover non-electrified households and renovate the existing rural power grid. Supply electricity via the national grid in combination with renewable energy sources to rural, mountainous and island areas; aiming for near universal access to electricity by 2025 for rural households .
Promote renewable energy sources for power generation, aiming to have renewable energy sources make up about 30.9-39.2% of total power generation by 2030, working towards the target of 47% share coming from renewable sources, with commitments under the Political Declaration, which established the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), met for Viet Nam by international partners.
Adopt a people-centric approach to the energy transition to ensure it is equitable, inclusive, and sustainable - leaving no one behind. Minimize disruption impact of the energy transition on people, especially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, women, low-skilled and low-income people. 
iv) Enhance the protection of biodiversity and natural resources, reduce environmental pollution, promote climate action and prevent natural disaster risks
Expand the protected areas of natural ecosystems, restore and ensure their integrity and connectivity. Ensure biodiversity in sustainable conservation and use. By 2030, aim to increase protected areas to 9% of the country’s total landmass; ensure national forest coverage to remain stable from 42% to 43%; and at least 20% of the degraded natural ecosystem area to be restored .
Control, prevent and reduce environmental pollution, especially ocean plastic pollution. By 2030, 100% of hazardous wastes and domestic solid wastes in coastal cities be collected and treated in accordance with environmental standards; 100% of economic zones, industrial parks and coastal urban areas be planned and built in the direction of sustainability, ecology, smart, adaptation to climate change, sea level rise, with centralized wastewater treatment systems meeting environmental norms, standards and regulations and marine environmental capacity, recovery capacity and resilience of marine and island ecosystems .
Implement urgent solutions to reduce vulnerability and strengthen resilience to the impacts of climate change; prioritizing safety and livelihoods for people in risk-prone areas by natural disasters.
v) Promoting digital transformation
Science, technology and innovation are the foundation for implementing national digital transformation. Promote national digital transformation to develop a digital government, digital economy, digital society, together with establishing Vietnamese digital technology enterprises with the capacity to go global. Expand investment in technical infrastructure, digital skills development and cybersecurity. Enhance the use and harness the benefits of digitalization in the provision of social services such as health, education, and support vulnerable groups in acquiring equal access to digital opportunities. By 2030, aim for Viet Nam to be in the group of 50 leading countries in e-Government Development Index (EGDI), in the group of 30 leading countries in Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) and universalization of fiber optic broadband Internet services.

Does the commitment include a new national benchmark for reducing poverty and inequality by 2027? If yes, please indicate the benchmark below: :
Roadmap to reduce poverty and inequality by 2030:
Viet Nam ensures that the transition benefits all and is reflected in the national targets of reducing poverty and inequality. Accordingly, striving to achieve the following by 2030 :
- Maintain the annual reduction of multidimensional poverty rate by 1-1.5%.
- Increase per capita income in rural areas to by more than 2.5 - 3 times the rate in 2020.
- The income growth rate of the lowest 40% of the population to be equal to the per capita household income growth rate.

Please explain how national planning and institutional frameworks will be strengthened to support progress of the commitment: :
Activities to be implemented to enhance the achievement of the SDGs
(i) Strengthen the role of the National Council for Sustainable Development in advising the Government and the Prime Minister in implementation of the SDGs in line with new trends and contexts, creating breakthroughs in the implementation of the SDGs in Viet Nam. 
(ii) Update and adjust the National Action Plan for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs, in line with National Commitment to SDG Transformation. 
(iii) Promote the effective implementation of the SDGs through strategies, planning, plans and policies at the national, sectoral and local levels. Strengthen the participation of stakeholders, promote public administration reform to further facilitate the participation of stakeholders in the policy decision-making process. Strengthen the capacity of localities in implementing, monitoring and evaluating the SDGs.
(iv) Mobilize additional financial resources, including domestic and foreign, public and private resources to invest in the SDGs. Strengthen international cooperation to mobilize resources for the implementation of the SDGs, especially access to international green finance and effective implementation of the Political Declaration on Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). Promote the Viet Nam-UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework to contribute to the implementation of the SDGs.
(v) Continue to update and accelerate the implementation of Viet Nam's Sustainable Development Statistical Indicators to improve the availability of data for SDGs monitoring, especially disaggregated data for disadvantaged groups, the environment, and climate change; mobilize technical assistance from development partners and the UN in collecting and improving SDGs data; aiming to have data for monitoring and evaluation for at least 90% of Viet Nam's SDG targets by 2027.

Which of the following, if any do your strengthened institutional frameworks seek to address?: Making SDG achievement a more central focus in national planning and oversight mechanisms, Strengthening the capacities of local and subnational governments to advance the SDGs , Strengthening national statistical systems, Securing country-level data for the SDG targets, Increasing domestic financing for data and statistics
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Please provide the full name, title and email address of contact person::
Full name: Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga
Title: Senior Official, Department of Science, Education, Natural Resource and Environment, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam
Email address: thanhnganguyen@mpi.gov.vn

Please provide the official email address of your country’s Permanent Mission in New York, for verification purposes.: infor@vietnam-un.org
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