The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will provide 1.375 million USD to help improve the capability of the Viet Nam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA).

A project to the effect was signed in Ha Noi on Jan. 24 by UNDP Country Director Setssuko Yamazaki and VUSTA Vice President and Secretary General Ho Uy Liem.
The project, which will be carried out from now until 2011, is designed to help the VUSTA protect the benefits of its members through consultation and supervision of the Government’s policies, programmes and projects.
It is also intended to help improve the union’s transparency and its effectiveness in regulating its members’ activities in order to build a sustainable relationship among its members and between its members and the Government’s agencies and international organisations.