Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
Public service users to section of receiving and returning administrative
procedures in Yen Thuy district.
In 2023, people in 12 hamlets in Hoa Binh city
and two districts of Kim Boi and Mai Chau joined the PAPI survey. Nguyen Thi Mai Phuong, head of the
Administrative Reform and Archives Division under the provincial Department of
Home Affairs, said that the province is in the group of the localities with
average-high scores. The province sees seven out of the eight content indexes
increased including people's participation at the grassroots level 5.16 points
(up 0.06 point); publicity and transparency 5.13 points (up 0.01 point);
accountability 4.46 poins (up 0.14 point); corruption control in public sector
7.23 points (up 0.79 point); public administrative procedures 7.35 points (up
0.7 point); environmental management 3.88 points (up 0.45 point); and
e-governance 3.15 points (up 0.56 point). Its index of public service provision
was 7.19 points, down 0.2 points compared to 2022.
The province's 2023 PAPI objectively assessed
people's satisfaction with administrative reforms, socio-economic management,
and the implementation of local grassroots democracy regulations. However,
according to the provincial Home Affairs Department, the report also showed the
province’s limitations in administering policies and serving people, for
example, people’s access to information on the Internet, the use of information
portals, and online public services. Moreover, the investment in building
facilities and equipment for schools, medical facilities, rural concrete roads,
and waste collection services has not met the people’s needs.
Phuong said that the province’s Home Affairs
Department has proposed the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee
develop specific plans for departments, agencies, units, districts, and Hoa
Binh city to improve the province’s ranking in the PAPI Index in 2024 and
following years.
Moreover, the province will promote
communications activities on the results, contents, and purpose of the PAPI
Index, and the political system’s responsibility in improving the PAPI Index.
The moves aim to improve the performance of the administrations at all levels,
better serve people, enhance publicity, transparency, and accountability of
public organisations, and ensure basic human rights, especially that to express
political opinions, access information, and use quality basic public
services.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.
This year, Hoa Binh province strives to have eight communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards and five communes satisfying exemplary new-style rural area standards. Since the beginning of the year, the provincial People's Committee has drastically directed the implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building to fulfil the set target.
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