The move was announced at a workshop in the northern port city of Hai Phong on July 27. Participants emphasised the need to form a professional channel to collect public feedback on problems emerging from implementing administrative reforms. 

A closer co-operation between the Ministry of Home Affairs and press agencies would help encourage and speed up the sharing of information among interested people, they said. 

Dinh Duy Hoa, Head of the Administrative Reforms Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs, added that the workshop outcome will serve as a foundation for the ministry and the UNDP to work out a concrete communication programme on administrative reform for the next decade.