Vietnam’s economy is on the path of sustainable and equitable growth and has good prospects to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. However, numerous aspects of public administration require further development to promote conditions for sustainable growth. Corruption scandals, such as Project Management Unit 18, fueled the need for better management of public finances and donor funds. Through this project, DAI and the U.K. National Audit Office provided support to the State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) to improve conditions for sustained and stable economic growth by building capacity in public sector auditing and helped to implement the new State Audit Law.

The project had four key components: 1) development of auditing standards and ethical standards for auditors in line with international standards; 2) development of financial and compliance audit procedures and training; 3) development of performance audit techniques to enable SAV to better evaluate the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of national targeted programmes and foreign-funded projects; and 4) support to the SAV Centre for Sciences and Staff Fostering, including development of new training curricula and training material and introduction of modern training methods to SAV trainers.