The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is a joint collaboration between the Centre for Community Support Development Studies (CECODES) under the Viet Nam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Viet Nam since 2009, with the close partnership and support of the Centre for Theory Work of the Viet Nam Fatherland.

The PAPI is the country’s largest annual time-series, PAPI assesses three mutually reinforcing processes: policy making, policy implementation and the monitoring of public service delivery. Th

The dimensions are specifically tailored to Viet Nam’s national and local level contexts.

The philosophy behind PAPI’s innovative policy monitoring approach is that citizens are seen as “end-users of public administrative services” capable of assessing governance and public administration in their localities.