Is that enough?

On June 29, 2015 the Ministry of Home Affairs released the first Vietnamese Youth Report. The
report was developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs with technical assistance from the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
As we know, Vietnam is in the period of `` golden population structure`` with the highest youth rate in
the history of demographic development of the country. Vietnamese youth is a great social force,
and an important human resource and one of the important factors determining the future and
destiny of the country.
The gathering and compiling of information on Vietnamese youth for the first time has shown the
deep concern of the Party and the State on youth growth.
The Vietnam Youth Report has focused on analyzing the youth situation in the three areas of
Education and Training, Labor and Employment, Health Care. Youth Participation is the key in
Formulation and Implementation the policies in these 3 areas. The report clearly reflects the
difficulties faced by young people in each issue, such as Education and Training, which highlight the
existence of differences in access to education among ethnic groups, between regions and
provinces. And wealth inequality. Another area of concern is the issue of employment for young
people. In this area, young people are facing with unemployment and underemployment, low quality
of labor and inadequate orientation and vocational training for young people. In addition, the health
care of youth is limited compared to other countries in the region, the accident rate for the young is
high, drug use, prostitution, smoking and alcohol abuse is relatively high, the use of health services
in general is low, and there is still a lack of sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescents and
youth. However, the involvement of youth in policy formulation and implementation is not sufficient.
Many comments were made during the report. The majority of comments found that the report did
not cover and reflect the real issue of the youth. One of the limitations of the report is that it
aggregates data based on previous reports without any updated information. This leads to
inadequate data collection. In particular, disadvantaged youth groups such as disabled groups, HIV
populations, migrants, ethnic minority or LGBT are not specifically mentioned in the report. The
youth representative of the Center for Creative Initiatives for Health and Population gave their
opinion on the 'Unfulfilled Demand for Adolescent Reproductive Health' “the youth only mentioned
that they did not meet the demand for contraception, so What about sexual and reproductive health
education, sex in and out of school for adolescents, young people? And in the report it was said that
the demand of the youth group in using contraceptives was high but the response was low, so did
the report find out why it led to such a low response? ``. This opinion has been received by the
Ministry of the Interior and will be explored in the second report.

According to Nguyen Van Lieu, Deputy Director General of the General Statistics Office, `` I look at
the report based on the 2009 report and the 2010 survey, 2013... So the picture will not be complete.
... I think the ministry should build a survey program and report separately on youth to apply for
nationwide ``. He also mentioned the need for closer coordination between departments in order to
have a better and more detailed survey results.

So, for a National Report on Youth in Vietnam, is this enough?
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