According to research conducted by Towards Transparency ago, it showed that 85% of youth said that lacking of integrity will be hamful to the country, their families and themselves; 87% of respondents answered they had a significant role in combating corruption and 74% of Vietnamese youth said they did not know or had very little knowledge about anti-corruption and relevant laws. It is notable that only 18% of adolescents said they have been educated on anti- corruption.

Since 2009, National Project 137 on putting integrity into institutions of training and education was approved. Following this, recently, VCCI and UNDP have been providing kind supports to the International School under Vietnam National University, Hanoi to adapt the existing manual on internal controls and codes of conduct in business to train at their university.

Through training, it is hopefully a good way to raise student’s awareness and equip them these useful knowledge prior to start of their career. In the near future, those people are expected to be business owners, therefore, they will be a right person to make changes in doing business and take a leading role in navigating their owned business towards long-term sustainable development. Supposedly, being  employees at companies and/or organizations later, they will be a part of target group to realize pursued core values of companies and organizations. Once they could understand how important integrity is and fundamental knowledge can be equipped at their early ages, then they can proactively address challenges and insprire good practices.

Photo of pilot training at the International School, VNU

Our project has  been  so far supporting several selected businesses to conduct pilot role models by applying internal control mechanisms and codes of conduct in business. These companies included Vietnam Maritime Corporation (VIMC), Traphaco Joint Stock Company and some other female-owned businesses in Thai Nguyen City like Lucas as an example. Through this initial assistance, it will create key foundation for businesses to standardize internal control mechanism and auditing committee to meet requirements of relevant regulations such as Law on Enterprises (2020), Law on Securities and Decree No. 05/2019/ND/CP on internal audit dated 22^nd January, 2019.