The Government Inspectorate and the World Bank (WB) on November 29 review the Vietnam Initiative Day 2009 and introduced the Vietnam Anti-Corruption Initiative (VACI) for 2011.

The program was launched under the theme of “Strengthening public integrity and enforcing laws to combat corruption effectively,” which aims at fostering innovative ideas to raise public awareness of the enforcement of laws to prevent and combat corruption.

VACI 2011 will include a contest for the best initiatives to enhance public uprightness and law enforcement to make the fight against corruption effective. The ideas must have a high degree of creativity and feasibility.

There will also be a section for sharing knowledge on anti-corruption laws and experiences drawn from the enforcement of laws against the scourge.

VACI 2011 is sponsored by the World Bank, the Australian Agency for International Development, the UK International Development Agency, the embassies of Sweden, Finland and Belgium , and others.

The same day, the Government Inspectorate and the WB announced that 25 projects won the Vietnam Innovation Day 2009 prizes, with the topic: “More accountability and transparency, less corruption”.

The Vice Chief Government Inspector Tran Duc Luong said the Government Inspectorate together with donors willdesign the VACI from now to 2015.

Each VACI will focus on a specific topic under the common theme of anti-corruption.

Ngoc Le