(VOVworld) – Refining Vietnam’s social assistance system to increase the number of beneficiaries and social allowance is the purpose of a project, launched in Hanoi on Wednesday by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs and the UN Development Program (UNDP).

Nurses take care of a war invalid in Thanh Hoa province. (Photo: VNA)

The project will run to the end of 2016 to help Vietnam realize the targets set out in the 11^th Party Central Committee resolution on social policies from 2012 to 2020. In 2014, the project will define shortcomings in identifying beneficiaries, the amount of allowance, and the financial mechanism. It will also improve the transparency and effectiveness of social assistance services and develop a policy renewal roadmap in Vietnam.