2015 Justice Index: towards a justice system for the people
The 2012 Justice Index released in 2013 and the 2015 Justice Index presented in this report are sequential iterations of an innovative research project aiming to measure the performance of the justice system in ensuring access to justice, equality and protection of fundamental rights, based on citizens’ experiences and observations. The three main questions addressed by the research include: What is the role and effectiveness of the judicial system in providing…
Annex 1: Index methodology
The Justice Index builds on the sound methodological experience of survey and sampling from implementation of the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), implemented yearly since 2009. The Justice Index leverages the PAPI approach in two ways. Firstly, by using a similar sampling design to select districts, communes…
Chapter 3: Provincial Profiles
This chapter presents the aggregate results of the 2015 Justice Index constructed under the conceptual framework described in Chapter 1 and the data analysis and statistical model explained in detail in Appendix 1. 3.1 Overview of the Justice Index The 2015 Justice Index is designed in three layers, consisting of…
Chapter 2: National findings
This chapter presents the aggregated results from the 2015 survey, based on interviews with the 13,841 people across Viet Nam who participated in it. The findings are presented according to the themes of access to justice, protection of constitutional fundamental rights, and the role of judicial institutions and elected bodies in…
Chapter 1: Development of the justice index
According to a 2015 report by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam’s impressive achievement in poverty reduction – one of the eight Millennium Development Goals – is the result of strong economic growth, trade liberalization and policies that support vulnerable groups.[1] Economic growth, not only in Viet Nam…
Annexes 3-4-5-6: Index framework and results for provinces and centrally administered cities
Sub-dimension # Indicator 1 Dimension 1 – Access to justice 1.1 Access to legal information 1.1.1 Available sources of legal information 1.1.2 Awareness about available remedies for labour disputes 1.1.3 Awareness about available remedies for land disputes 1.1.4 Awareness about available remedies for civil disputes 1.1.5 Awareness about available remedies…