The meeting was attended by Mrs. Hisae Takahashi, Expert of Consultancy, evaluation of Ernst & Young Sustainability, Tokyo, Japan (Independent Advisory Agency). As for PPA had Lieutenant General, Prof.Dr. Nguyen XuanYem, President of Academy; representative for functional departments involved in the project, including: Traffic Safety Research Centre, Traffic Police Department and International Cooperation Department.

At the meeting, Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen XuanYem, President of PPA welcomed the evaluationdelegation to PPA and confirmed success of the project "Support to strengthen traffic police training traffic at PPA and police training institutions in Vietnam" funded by JICAat PPA. On that basis, President of PPA proposed JICA continue to help PPA deploy new project "Enhancing Capacity ofworking and scientific research of the Traffic Safety Research Centre of PPA” with the target of training personnel, strengthening scientific research and developing the Traffic Safety Research Centre becoming the Traffic Safety Research Institute of PPA.

PPA presented a souvenir to the delegation

After the meeting, the evaluation delegationhad a working session with the Traffic Safety Research Centre, the Traffic Police Department and the International Cooperation Department - the units directly involved in the project.

According to Mrs. Hisae Takahashi, purpose of meeting was to assess efficiency, impacts, sustainability of the project "Support to strengthen the traffic police training at PPA and police training institutionsin Vietnam"; thereby synthesizing experiences and proposing recommendations for more effective implementation of subsequent projects in the future.

The delegation worked with units of the PPA involved in the project

With that spirit, PPA presented report on overview of the project "Support to strengthen the traffic police training at PPA and police training institutions in Vietnam". Accordingly, the project was implemented at PPA from June, 2010 to December, 2013. After 3 years of implementation, the project has gained positive results, such as improving training content onthe Road traffic Law and peopleeducation on traffic safety, trafficguide and control, traffic enforcement, traffic accident data collection and analysis toward updatingnew content in system of textbook, reference, framework program; enhancing capacity of traffic police trainingof PPA’s lecturers on the basis of learning and accumulating knowledge, skills, experience of the Japanese experts; improving teaching methods to encourage students to have new initiatives. In particular, the project has supported PPA for building the Traffic Safety Research Center becoming a leading research Center of MPS of Vietnam; oriented development and implementation of research activities of the Centre in the field of traffic safety.

Translated by GL