Administration
The central government
The Government of Vietnam includes the Ministries and the Ministry-equivalent bodies which are established by the decision of the National Assembly at the suggestion of the Prime Minister.
A comprehensive list of Ministries and Ministry-equivalent authorities could be found on the UNDP’s website.
Partly due to currently limited capacity of the National Assembly, the Ministries have important influence on Vietnamese legislation. See the section on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Local government
Vietnam is organized into 61 provinces which are subdivided into districts. Below districts are communes.
Each of these three geographic levels has their own local governments consisting of a representative body elected by the local people every five years named the People’s Council and the administrative body named the People’s Committee, whose members are elected by the People’s Council.[x]