Human trafficking has emerged as a pressing human rights and security issue in Viet Nam and the surrounding region in the past decades. The Government of Viet Nam is making significant efforts to improve the prevention and prosecution of trafficking in persons (TIP) – a trend which it recognizes to significantly hamper safe and humane migration, as well as the country’s overall security and well-being. These efforts include the establishment of a relevant legislative framework (the 2011 Law on Human Trafficking Prevention and Combat), a rise in prosecutions of traffickers, increased law enforcement and victim assistance budgets, and large-scale awareness campaigns in communities identified as most vulnerable to trafficking. The legislative efforts so far, however, have not ensured the provision of coherent TIP data collection, management, nor reporting. Steps forward have been made regarding the latter challenges, as the Government tasked the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) as the coordinating agency for national TIP database establishment and management. It is in this context that this project aims, in close collaboration with the MPS, to contribute to enhancing evidence-based, data-driven decision making by the Government of Viet Nam to effectively tackle trafficking in persons (TIP) across the country. It will do so by ensuring that Vietnamese counter-trafficking agencies (including MPS, Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuracy, Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs, Border Guard) adopt more standardized, gender-sensitive data collection, management and reporting processes to produce new data and reports on TIP. To achieve these aims, the project foresees supporting capacity development for the MPS and relevant counter-trafficking agencies (including SPP, SPC, Border Guard and MOLISA) on the set-up and use of standardized tools and methodologies for producing structured information and effectively reporting on TIP; and providing these entities with coordination platforms where to discuss, gain information and brainstorm on the added-value of structured data processes in the field of TIP, which are to be institutionalised and used sustainably over time.