Vietnam

Ratings for the Mekong Health Support Project for Vietnam were as follows: overall outcome was satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, and both the... Show More + Bank and the Borrower performance were satisfactory. The important project lessons learned are: (i) the technical lessons learned of relevance for the World Bank and other countries work on universal health care; and (ii) the particular project design and implementation issues which have implications for the design of such projects. Show Less -

The objective of the North East and Red River Delta Regional Health System Support Project is to improve the population's access to essential health services in the... Show More + provinces of North East and Red River Delta in accordance to the national health system development strategy. Some of the negative and mitigation measures include: in the situation that ethnic minorities are facing many obstacles on geography, customs and income constraints, strengthening the capacity of provincial and district hospitals will help them significantly reduce the pay such as accommodation cost for people to take care, travel expenses, etc. In addition, the psychological barrier of traditions and customs shall be resolved satisfactorily when the medical staff has the same ethnic with the local people, they can use the native language to communicate with the patient, understand and share with patients about obstacles in customs (in case the district hospitals of the province of Yen Bai, Tuyen Quang, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen, etc.). The project components are designed in sync, including staff training and development of human resources for health, provide health equipment's, health insurance card for the poor, behavior change media, therefore, the project will not only improve the quality of health care services, support for the near poor, but also strengthen and develop the health system at the unit level in order to provide better health care for people. Show Less -

The development objective of the Distribution Efficiency Project for Vietnam is to improve the efficiency of Vietnam's power corporations in delivering power distribution... Show More + and retail supply services, through supply and demand side interventions. Negative impacts includes: temporary acquisition of productive land; temporary acquisition of residential and garden land; permanent acquisition of land for tower foundations; and loss of trees and crops. Compensation measures includes: 1) cash compensation for affected trees at the replacement cost plus cost for cutting trees, crops at market price; 2) number of crop patterns to be compensated based on the time of temporarily acquired of land; 3) rehabilitate land after the project construction; 4) cash compensation for affected fruit trees and trees at replacement cost; 5) relocating allowance of 30 kg of rice equivalent per person per month in six months; 6) cash compensation for the lost area if the remaining plot is still economically viable; and 7) cash compensation for properties associated with land. Show Less -