The event, jointly organized by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), the United Nations in Vietnam and the German Development Agency (GIZ), was part of activities to prepare for the SDG Summit in New York next month.

VNR shows the progress of SDG implementation in Vietnam, as well as difficulties and challenges facing the country, and policy priorities to speed up the progress. It plays an important role in providing information to the dialogue on prioritised policies and the SDG transformation process, which will be specified into commitments, initiatives and national actions to speed up SDG implementation.

UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pauline Tamesis said the dialogue aims to share new ideas and recommendations to build Vietnam’s national commitments to SDG transformation, which will help design specific roadmaps for the Vietnamese Government and relevant agencies to make steps forwards in SDG implementation.

The VNR report shows that Vietnam has made significant progress on a variety of goals, but increased implementation and investment is still needed to get all of the SDGs back on track to achieve them all by 2030, she stated.