Policy Impact Assessment is a critical step in developing laws and a new requirement under Vietnam’s 2015 Law on Laws. Earlier this year, USAID helped Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to develop and launch a Policy Impact Assessment manual. On October 9-10, the USAID Governance for Inclusive Growth Program and MOJ trained representatives from several ministries and provincial justice departments on skills needed to conduct the five elements of policy impact assessment: economic impacts, social impacts, gender impacts, administrative procedure impacts, and legal system impacts.

So What? Increasing policy impact assessment skills improves implementation of the 2015 Law on Laws and helps agencies develop higher quality laws, which are more relevant and effective.