NIS Study of Vietnam

A National Integrity System (NIS) Study of Vietnam released today by Transparency International shows that recent anti-corruption progress in Vietnam needs to be translated into concrete results.

There is now greater recognition than ever before in Vietnam that corruption is a problem, and corruption is much higher up the political agenda. The increased focus on corruption by both the government and international organisations can be demonstrated in the passage of the country’s first anticorruption law in late 2005. However, issues such as the government’s piecemeal approach to tackling corruption, and the fact that civil society and the media are ill placed to perform their role as watchdogs, means Vietnam’s NIS is not working well.

The study found that even with mechanisms in place to tackle corruption, they are either rudimentary or poorly enforced. The main challenge for Vietnam’s anti-corruption efforts will be bridging the wide gap between the formal rules governing the NIS and actual practices on the ground.

click here to download the Summary in Vietnamese
click here to download the 2006 country study