Delegates attending the workshop.

On August 22, in Vinh Phuc province, the Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Agency for Migration organized a training workshop on data management and analysis.

The training workshop was attended by about 40 delegates from the Ministries of Public Security, National Defense, Justice, Education and Training, Vietnam Women's Union, representatives of departments and branches of 10 northern localities, IOM Delegation in Vietnam; representatives of the Regional Data Analysis Center, IOM Asia-Pacific Regional Office attended online.

Deputy Director of the Consular Department Phan Thi Minh Giang delivered the opening speech at the training workshop.

Speaking at the opening of the training workshop, Deputy Director of the Consular Department Phan Thi Minh Giang emphasized the importance of international migration data in developing migration policies appropriate to the practical situation. In the Plan for implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration issued together with Decision 402/QD-TTg dated March 20, 2020 of the Prime Minister, collecting information and data on migration is one of the key tasks, in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the agency in charge of implementing the task of researching and building a national database on migration.

Therefore, the training workshop will help further strengthen the coordination of agencies and localities in collecting and compiling international migration data, aiming to build a centralized and unified management system on international migration, facilitating the development of evidence-based migration policies, contributing to effective migration management, and protecting the rights and interests of migrants.

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Nam, Head of Relations and Partnerships, IOM Mission in Vietnam, said that capturing international migration data is important in the current migration context to promptly protect the rights of migrants; highly appreciated Vietnam as one of the first countries in the Asian region to issue a Plan to implement the GCM Agreement with many specific tasks, including the task of collecting and compiling international migration data.

IOM Vietnam representative hopes that the training workshop will be a forum for relevant agencies to share practices and experiences in data collection and management, thereby contributing to improving the effectiveness of this work.

Delegates discussed at the Workshop.

At the workshop, experts from the Regional Data Analysis Center - IOM Asia-Pacific Regional Office introduced the importance of migration data for policy making, current migration data sources, challenges in collecting migration data and ways to utilize migration data for policy making.

Representatives of the Department of Data Collection and Information Technology Application, General Statistics Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment shared basic contents on data management and the Data Management Framework (UNECE).

The presentation of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused on the practice of collecting, compiling and managing international migration data in Vietnam. The training workshop also heard representatives of the Department of Administrative Police for Social Order, Ministry of Public Security introduce an overview of the national population database; and suggestive issues for research and development of a national migration database.

The Department of Population and Labor Statistics, General Statistics Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment provides an overview of data analysis in international migration data management, data analysis techniques, especially international migration data.

With 5 discussion sessions and sample data analysis practice, the training workshop provided necessary information on data collection and analysis, contributing to improving the capacity of data management and use to serve the development of policies on international migration, thereby further promoting the implementation of the GCM Agreement Implementation Plan in relevant ministries, agencies and localities.

The working delegation of the Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and General Statistics Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment worked with functional agencies of Vinh Phuc province.

Within the framework of the Training Workshop, on August 23, the working delegation of the Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Statistics Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment had a working session with the functional agencies of Vinh Phuc province to survey the collection, statistics, and management of international migration data in the locality, learn about local needs and discuss some research orientations for building an international migration data management system.