Da Nang has fallen out of the top ten Vietnamese localities with highest scores in the Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2020, according to 2020 PAPI report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Viet Nam on Wednesday.

Da Nang has slipped in 2020 Viet Nam-wide PAPI rankings, naming among low performers.

PAPI consists of 8 dimensions, and 6 out of 8 dimensions  are basic ones, namely citizens’ participation at grass-roots level, transparency, vertical accountability, control of corruption, public administrative procedures, and public service delivery. In addition, 2 new dimensions were included in PAPI 2019, namely environmental governance and e-governance.

Da Nang achieved 4.5 points in the rankings of citizens’ participation at grass-roots level, 5.04 for transparency, 4.6 for vertical accountability, 6.69 for the control of corruption, 7.34 for public administrative procedures, 7.6 for public service delivery, 3.14 for environmental governance, and 3.6 for e-governance.

Da Nang entered the top Vietnamese localities with highest scores in the public service delivery category. All Vietnamese localities were named among low performers in the e-governance category, and Da Nang topped this category. 

Da Nang ranked 6^th among Vietnamese localities with highest scores in 2019 PAPI.

PAPI is a flagship governance program initiated by the United Nations Development Programs in Viet Nam since 2009. PAPI measures and benchmarks citizens’ experiences and perception on the performance and quality of policy implementation and services delivery of all 63 provincial governments in Viet Nam to advocate for effective and responsive governance.

Reporting by PHONG LAN – Translating by H.L