- Evaluation Plan:
- 2006-2011, Viet Nam
- Evaluation Type:
- Project
- Planned End Date:
- 12/2009
- Completion Date:
- 01/2010
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 20,000
Strengthening the Capacity of the Vietnam Lawyers Association (VLA)
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| 00042690 - VLA Sum&Recommend.doc |
summary | English | 85.50 KB | Posted | 802 |
| Title | Strengthening the Capacity of the Vietnam Lawyers Association (VLA) | ||||||
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| Evaluation Plan: | 2006-2011, Viet Nam | ||||||
| Evaluation Type: | Project | ||||||
| Status: | Completed | ||||||
| Completion Date: | 01/2010 | ||||||
| Planned End Date: | 12/2009 | ||||||
| Management Response: | Yes | ||||||
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| Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
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| Evaluation Budget(US $): | 20,000 | ||||||
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| Joint Programme: | No | ||||||
| Joint Evaluation: | No | ||||||
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| GEF Evaluation: | No | ||||||
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| Countries: | VIET NAM |
| Lessons | |
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| Findings |
| Recommendations | |
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| 1 | The challenge to VLA of providing "value" and motivation to its members stems from its lack of a strong identity and organizational profile. |
| 2 | VLA's hierarchical organization with a rather top-heavy management structure and a wide, but largely passive membership base distributed throughout the country |
| 3 | Methodology of the law-commenting should be improved, and the organizational structure should be made more effective in gathering, processing and directing the law and policy inputs from the membership |
| 4 | Thorough assessment of user-need for legal aid to be conducted to develop an Action Plan for VLA central and provincial on legal assistance to the poor and disadvantage |
| 5 | It is recommended to continue and strengthen cooperation with university mobile clinics to continue to develop better forms of conducting mobile clinics and in particular to develop experience, materials and forms of interaction with clients. |
| 6 | To improve dissemination techniques, continued interaction with universities and professional providers of legal aid, including also international organizations is recommended. |
| 7 | VLA continue to carry out mobile legal aid at prisons and correctional institutions to gradually develop ways of providing legal advice more independent of the prison authorities and with the aim of obtaining access to advising inmates on an individual basis without the presence of prison guards, or, at a minimum. |
1. Recommendation: The challenge to VLA of providing "value" and
motivation to its members stems from its lack of a strong identity
and organizational profile.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19] [Last Updated: 2010/01/19]
Agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLA should provide members with a sense of shared purpose, and thereby to mobilize the energy and motivation of its membership.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA | 2010/01 | Completed | A long-term and strategic target for VLA which could not be completed in short-term |
2. Recommendation: VLA's hierarchical organization
with a rather top-heavy management structure and a wide, but largely passive
membership base distributed throughout the country
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19] [Last Updated: 2010/01/19]
Agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The VLA should improve its internal structure and internal guidelines for membership mobilization. Discussion about the VLA?s mission and strategic objective should be concretely addressed in the strategic plan and more important in the action plans.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA | 2010/01 | Completed | Few adjustments in relation to VLA organizational structure have been made and reflected in the new Statute of the VLA, endorsed at the VLA?s National Congress in Dec 2009. |
3. Recommendation: Methodology of the law-commenting should be improved, and the organizational
structure should be made more effective in gathering, processing and directing the law
and policy inputs from the membership
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19]
Agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To be considered in future VLA programming:
1) To establish a central level committee and
dedicate staff at the central level for law-commenting;
2) To make annual and clear priorities of the areas of law-commenting, taking into
account areas of particular expertise in the organization, the ability of the
organization to make an impact, and also to consider issues that are likely to raise the
public profile and credibility of the VLA;
3) To mobilize resources in the provincial VLAs on specific law-commenting issues directly linked to the annual priorities of law-comments; and
4) To monitor closer the issues arising from the LCCs and select either themes for
law-commenting or policy-submissions or specific issues that are cause for concern.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA future interventionswith/or without UNDP support | 2010/01 | Completed |
4. Recommendation: Thorough assessment of user-need for legal aid to be conducted to develop an Action Plan for VLA central and provincial on legal assistance to the poor and disadvantage
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19]
Agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The recommendation is fully taken in formulation of future activities of the VLA in 2010 onward.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA | 2010/01 | Completed | ||
| To assist the VLA in developing realistic action plan for legal aid at local level, training for LCCs to be conducted in Q2/2010 sponsored by UNDP
[Added: 2010/01/19] [Last Updated: 2010/12/17] |
VLA, UNDP | 2010/12 | Completed |
5. Recommendation: It is recommended to continue and strengthen cooperation with university mobile
clinics to continue to develop better forms of conducting mobile clinics and in
particular to develop experience, materials and forms of interaction with clients.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19]
Agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extension support to be provided to HCMC Law University Clinic in Q1-Q2/2010.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA and UNDP | 2009/06 | Completed | ||
| A separate UNDP project on legal education is being formulated, in which promoting University Law Clinic is a component of technical assistance.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
UNDP | 2010/01 | Completed |
6. Recommendation: To improve dissemination techniques, continued interaction with universities and professional
providers of legal aid, including also international organizations is recommended.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19]
Agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action to be designed and undertaken by the VLA in future programming
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA | 2010/01 | Completed |
7. Recommendation: VLA continue to carry out mobile legal aid at prisons and correctional institutions to gradually develop ways of providing legal advice more independent
of the prison authorities and with the aim of obtaining access to advising inmates on
an individual basis without the presence of prison guards, or, at a minimum.
Management Response: [Added: 2010/01/19] [Last Updated: 2010/01/19]
Partially agree
Key Actions:
| Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It was a challenge for VLA to get access to the prisons for legal aid to inmates. For security reason by the prison guards, the conditions would hardly be improved in short-term.
[Added: 2010/01/19] |
VLA | 2010/01 | Completed |