Completing the criteria for evaluating the governance effectiveness of commune-level People’s Committees in Vietnam today
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https://doi.org/10.59394/JSM.119Keywords:
Evaluation criteria, organizational reform, administrative apparatus, governance effectiveness, commune-level People’s CommitteesAbstract
From July 2025, Vietnam will reform the administrative apparatus under the two-tier local government model, fundamentally changing the position and role of commune-level People’s Committees in the governance system. In this context, perfecting the criteria for evaluating governance effectiveness at the commune level becomes an urgent requirement to ensure transparency, accountability, and efficient governance. Based on modern public governance theory and international experience, the paper proposes two complementary evaluation models: (1) A composite index model consisting of 5 groups of criteria with 15 weighted sub-indicators, allowing quantification of governance effectiveness; (2) A Balanced Scorecard model with four pillars: citizens - organizations, internal processes, learning - development, and finance, aimed at transforming strategic objectives into specific measurable indicators. The novelty of the study lies in integrating quantitative and qualitative evaluation, emphasizing citizen satisfaction, innovation capacity, and digital transformation of commune-level governments as core elements of modern local governance.
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