The 2nd Competition for Ideas and Solutions in Administrative Reform – 2025 is organized by Hanoi City to promote dynamism and creativity among officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers in agencies and units under the City. Through the competition, exemplary ideas and solutions with practical applicability will be identified for pilot implementation and scaling up, contributing to the improvement of Hanoi’s Administrative Reform Index (PAR INDEX), Satisfaction Index (SIPAS), and Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) in 2025 and subsequent years.
The competition is open to officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers currently working at departments, sectors, and People’s Committees of communes and wards, as well as units under city departments and local People’s Committees. Eligible collectives include city departments and sectors, and People’s Committees of communes and wards.
Ideas and solutions submitted to the competition must aim to enhance the effectiveness of state administrative reform, covering areas such as leadership and administration; institutional reform; administrative procedure reform; reform of state organizational apparatus; reform of civil service and public service regimes; public finance reform; and the development of e-government and digital government.
Requirements for ideas: Entries must be novel and creative, demonstrating research and exploration, proposing effective approaches that deliver tangible benefits, improve the effectiveness of administrative reform, and be reviewed and preliminarily selected by the head of the receiving agency or unit, with confirmation of effectiveness and feasibility for implementation.
Submitted entries must not completely duplicate ideas, models, or solutions already applied in the City or publicly implemented in other localities nationwide, and must not have been approved by the City-level Initiative Council. Entries that have participated in other competitions but did not win awards may be submitted, provided they are revised and improved rather than reused verbatim.
Entries may be submitted in written form or as video clips by individuals or groups of authors, presenting ideas and solutions for administrative reform. Each city department or sector must submit at least one high-quality entry; each commune- or ward-level People’s Committee must submit at least two high-quality entries.
Agencies, units, and localities are responsible for implementing the plan and organizing preliminary rounds to select quality entries, which must be submitted to the Department of Home Affairs via the document management and administration system, directly, or by post no later than November 15, 2025.
The City People’s Committee reserves the right to use submitted entries by collectives and individuals without seeking authors’ permission for practical application and for publication on the City’s Administrative Reform Information Portal.
The City People’s Committee assigns the Department of Home Affairs as the standing body organizing the competition and requires the competition to be launched across all city agencies and units, with 100% participation from departments, sectors, and commune-level People’s Committees; strictly avoiding plagiarism or formalistic participation. The competition must be conducted seriously, substantively, and effectively; evaluation and award decisions must ensure openness, transparency, accuracy, objectivity, and a strong emphasis on novelty and high practical value.
Minh Anh