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THE
PRIME MINISTER's DECISION No. 71/2001/QD-TTg OF MAY 4, 2001
ON THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAMS IN THE 2001-2005 PERIOD
(Unofficial
Translation)
THE PRIME MINISTER
- Pursuant
to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30,
1992;
- Pursuant
to Resolution No. 39/2000/QH10 of December 9, 2000 of the Xth
National Assembly at its 8th session, on the 2001 tasks and Resolution
No. 243/NQ/UBTVQH10 of December 15, 2000 of the National Assembly
Standing Committee on the allocation of the central budget in
2001;
- Pursuant
to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 531/TTg of August 8, 1996
on the management of national programs;
- Pursuant
to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 05/1998/ QD-TTg of January
14, 1998 on the management of national target programs;
- Pursuant
to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 38/2000/QD-TTg of March 24,
2000, amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Prime
Minister's Decision No. 531/TTg of August 8, 1996 on the management
of national target programs;
- Pursuant
to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 146/2000/QD-TTg of December
22, 2000, on the assignment of the plan norms and the State budget
estimate in 2001;
- At the proposal
of the Minister of Planning and Investment,
DECIDES
Article 1.- To approve the list of national target programs
in the 2001-2005 period and assign the agencies to manage and deploy
the implementation thereof as follows:
1. The national target program on hunger eradication, poverty
alleviation and employment
a/ Objectives:
- To reduce by 2005 the percentage of poor households (according
to the new criteria for poor households) to below 10%, or an average
of 1,5% - 2% each year (about 28,000 - 30,000 households/year);
to stop chronic relapse in hunger and ensure that poor communes
have basic infrastructures;
- To strive to create jobs for about 1.4 - 1.5 million people each
year; to reduce the unemployment rate in urban areas to about 5%
- 6%; to increase the percentage of working time in rural areas
to 80% by 2005.
b/ Contents: Including three groups of projects:
- The group of general hunger eradication and poverty alleviation
projects:
+ The credit project to lend capital to poor households for production
and business development;
+ The project to guide poor people on ways of earning a living,
to promote agriculture, forestry and fishery;
+ The project to build hunger eradication and poverty alleviation
models in special areas (areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, coastal
areas, highland and border areas, islands, former resistance bases,
deep-lying areas in the Mekong River delta);
- The group of hunger eradication and poverty alleviation projects
for poor communes not covered by program 135:
+ The project to build infrastructures in poor communes;
+ The project to support production and development of business
lines and trades in poor communes;
+ The project to train and foster personnel for hunger eradication
and poverty alleviation activities and officials of poor communes;
+ The project to stabilize the life of migrants and build new economic
zones in poor communes (including: stabilizing the life of free
migrants, migrants under new economic zone construction and population
redistribution according to the planning; projects under the former
program 773 of the agricultural sector under the Prime Minister's
regulations in Document No. 1123/CP-NN of December 6, 2000 on the
transfer of projects under program 773);
+ The project on sedentarization in poor communes.
(Communes meeting with special difficulties, which may continue
to implement the projects under program 135 on "socio-economic
development in communes meeting with special difficulties in ethnic
minority, mountainous, border, deep-lying and remote areas"
- a special hunger eradication and poverty alleviation program of
the Government - with the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous
Areas as the standing body, according to the Prime Minister's Decisions
No. 135/1998/QD-TTg of July 31, 1998 and No. 138/2000/QD-TTg of
November 29, 2000, shall not be regulated by this Decision).
- The group of employment projects:
+ The project to organize the lending of capital under mini-projects
for job creation through the National Employment Support Fund;
+ The project to raise the capacity and modernize the Employment
Service Centers;
+ The project to survey and gather statistics on the labor market
and build a labor market information system;
+ The project to train and foster personnel for the job creation
work.
c/ Assignment of the program management and implementation.
- The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs: To manage,
administer and synthesize the general situation on the program implementation;
to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee for Ethnic Minorities
and Mountainous Areas, the Ministry of Health, the State Bank of
Vietnam, the concerned ministries and branches, and the People's
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities (hereinafter
called the localities for short) in managing and organizing the
implementation of the following projects:
+ The project to train and foster personnel for the hunger eradication
and poverty alleviation work and officials of poor communes;
+ The project to build hunger eradication and poverty alleviation
models in special areas (areas of ethnic minorities, coastal areas,
highland and border areas, islands, former resistance bases, deep-lying
areas in the Mekong River delta);
+ The project to organize the capital lending according to mini-projects
on job creation through the National Employment Support Fund;
+ The project to raise the capacity and modernize the Employment
Service Centers;
+ The project to survey and gather statistics on the labor market
and build a labor market information system;
+ The project to train and foster personnel for the job creation
work.
- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development: To assume the
prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor,
War Invalids and Social Affairs, the National Committee for Population
and Family Planning, the concerned ministries and branches, and
the localities in managing and organizing the implementation of
the following projects:
+ The project to build infrastructures in poor communes;
+ The project to support production and development of business
lines and trades in poor communes;
+ The project to guide poor people on ways of earning a living,
to promote agriculture, forestry and fishery;
+ The project to stabilize the life of migrants and build new economic
zones in poor communes (including: stabilizing the life of free
migrants, migrants under new economic zone construction and population
redistribution according to planning; projects of the former program
773 of the agricultural sector according to the Prime Minister's
regulations in Document No. 1123/CP-NN of December 6, 2000 on the
transfer of projects under program 773);
+ The project on sedentarization in poor communes.
- The State Bank of Vietnam: To assume the prime responsibility
and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social
Affairs, the concerned ministries, branches and localities in directing
the Bank for the Poor to manage and organize the implementation
of the credit project to lend capital to poor households for production
and business development.
- The Ministry of Health: To assume the prime responsibility and
coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs,
the concerned ministries, branches and localities in studying and
elaborating the policy on medical examination and treatment for
the poor and submitting it to the Government for decision.
- The Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas: To
coordinate with the concerned ministries and branches in managing
and organizing the implementation of hunger eradication, poverty
alleviation and employment projects.
- The National Committee for Population and Family Planning: To
coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
in managing and organizing the implementation of the project to
stabilize the life of migrants and build new economic zones in poor
communes.
2.
The national target program on clean water and environmental hygiene
in rural areas.
To comply with the provisions of Clause 2, Article 2 of the Prime
Minister's Decision No. 104/2000/QD-TTg of August 25, 2000 approving
the national strategy for clean water supply and rural sanitation
till 2020.
3.
The national target program on population and family planning
a/ Objectives:
- To concentrate every effort on achieving the objective of steady
birth rate reduction, particularly focusing on areas with high birth
rates, deep-lying, remote and poor areas in order to achieve the
national average birth rate by no later than 2005. To reduce the
annual birth rate by 0.04% on average; to achieve the population
growth rate of about 1.16% by 2005.
- To initially deploy the experimental models and solutions to improve
the population quality.
b/ Contents: Including the following projects:
- The communication, education and behavioral change project;
- The project to further provide reproductive health care/family
planning services for poor, difficulty-hit, deep-lying and remote
areas;
- The project to improve the quality of population information and
data;
- The project to study issues related to the population quality;
- The project to integrate population with sustainable family development
through credit and saving activities and development of the family
economy;
- The project to raise the managerial capacity of personnel engaged
in population activities;
- The project on reproductive health care/family planning services,
consisting of two mini-projects:
+ The mini-project on the provision of reproductive health care/family
planning services;
+ The mini-project on the provision of non-clinical reproductive
health care/family planning services and ensure family planning
logistics supply.
c/ Assignment of the program management and implementation:
- The National Committee for Population and Family Planning: To
manage, administer and synthesize the general situation on the program
implementation; to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate
with the Ministry of Health, the concerned ministries, branches
and localities in managing and organizing the implementation of
the following projects:
+ The communication, education and behavioral change project;
+ The project to further provide reproductive health care/family
planning services for poor, difficulty-hit, deep-lying and remote
areas;
+ The project to improve the quality of population information and
data;
+ The project to study issues related to the population quality;
+ The project to integrate population with sustainable family development
through credit and saving activities and development of the family
economy;
+ The project to enhance the managerial capacity of personnel engaged
in population activities;
+ The mini-project on the provision of non-clinical reproductive
health care/family planning services and family planning logistics
supply.
- The Ministry of Health:
+ To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National
Committee for Population and Family Planning, the concerned ministries,
branches and localities in managing and organizing the implementation
of the mini-project on the provision of reproductive health care/family
planning services.
+ To coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family
Planning, the concerned ministries, branches and localities in managing
and organizing the implementation of the project to further provide
reproductive health care/family planning services for poor, difficulty-hit,
deep-lying and remote areas.
4.
The national target program to prevent and combat some social diseases,
dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS.
a/ Objectives:
To reduce the morbidity and mortality rates, contributing to increasing
the physical strength, increase the life expectancy and develop
our race; to strive to ensure that every citizen enjoy primary healthcare
services; to speed down the HIV infection in the community.
b/ Contents: Including the following projects:
- The project to prevent and fight malaria;
- The project to prevent and fight goiter;
- The project to prevent and fight leprosy;
- The project to prevent and fight tuberculosis;
- The project to prevent and fight petechial fever;
- The expanded immunization project;
- The project to prevent and fight child malnutrition;
- The project to protect the community's mental health;
- The project to ensure food safety, hygiene and quality;
- The project to prevent and fight HIV/AIDS.
c/ Assignment of the program management and implementation:
The Ministry of Health: To manage and execute the program; to assume
the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries,
branches and localities in managing and organizing the implementation
of the projects under the program.
5.
The national target program on culture
a/ Objectives:
- To conserve and promote the nation's typical cultural values;
- To build and develop the cultured life at the grassroots level;
- To modernize the film production, archival and dissemination technologies.
b/ Contents: Including the three following groups of projects:
- The group of projects to conserve and promote the nation's typical
cultural values:
+ The project against the degradation and for the replenishment
of historical, revolutionary and resistance war relics;
+ The project to study, survey and conserve a number of typical
rural and mountainous villages and hamlets and unique traditional
rituals of ethnic minority groups;
+ The project to collect and conserve typical non-material cultural
values; to establish a data bank for the non-material culture;
- The group of projects to build a cultured life at the grassroots
level:
+ The project to build grassroots culture and information institutions;
to build models of culture and information activities in villages
and communes (paying special attention to deep-lying, remote, mountainous
and ethnic minority areas in order to narrow the cultural enjoyment
gap between regions);
+ The project to build cultured rural and mountainous villages,
communes and wards;
+ The project to supply cultural and information products to the
grassroots level;
+ The project to promote cultural and information activities in
the border areas and islands (in coordination with the Border Guard
Command);
- The group of projects to modernize the film production, archival
and dissemination technologies:
+ The project to provide modern equipment and techniques for the
film production and archive;
+ The project to provide modern equipment and techniques for the
film dissemination;
+ The project to train and raise the skills to use modern technologies
in the film production, archive and dissemination.
c/ Assignment of the program management and implementation:
The Ministry of Culture and Information: To manage and execute the
program; to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with
the concerned ministries, branches and localities in managing and
organizing the implementation of the projects under the program.
6.
The national target program on education and training
a/ Objectives:
- To realize the universalization of junior-high education nationwide
by 2010, in 30 provinces and cities by 2005;
- To renew the curriculum and textbooks' contents.
- To raise the percentage of trained labor to 40% of the total labor
within the prescribed age range by 2010, and 30% by 2005; to adjust
the manpower training structure in terms of the training level,
business line and territory to be suitable to the demands of the
national industrialization and modernization; to accelerate the
training of informatics personnel and the introduction of informatics
into schools.
b/ Contents: Including the following projects:
- The project to consolidate and promote the results of primary
education universalization and illiteracy eradication, to realize
the universalization of junior-high education;
- The project to renew the curriculum and textbooks' contents;
- The project to train informatics personnel and introduce informatics
into schools;
- The project to train and foster teachers and strengthen material
bases for pedagogical colleges and universities;
- The project to support education in mountainous, ethnic minority
and difficulty-hit areas;
- The project to strengthen material foundations in schools, general
technical and vocational guidance centers; to build some key universities
and specialized secondary schools;
- The project to enhance the job training capacity.
c/ Assignment of the program management and implementation:
- The Ministry of Education and Training: To manage, administer
and synthesize the general situation on the program implementation;
to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry
of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the concerned ministries,
branches and localities in managing and organizing the implementation
of the following projects:
+ The project to consolidate and promote the results of primary
education universalization and illiteracy eradication, to realize
the universalization of junior-high education;
+ The project to renew the curriculum and textbooks' contents;
+ The project to train informatics personnel and introduce informatics
into schools;
+ The project to train and foster teachers and strengthen material
bases for pedagogical colleges and universities;
+ The project to support education in mountainous, ethnic minority
and difficulty-hit areas;
+ The project to strengthen material foundations in schools, general
technical and vocational guidance centers; to build some key universities
and specialized secondary schools.
- The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs: To assume
the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Education
and Training, the concerned ministries, branches and localities
in organizing the implementation of the project to enhance the job-training
capacity.
Article
2.- Elaboration and submission of the national target programs
for approval
1.
The agencies in charge of managing the national target programs
shall elaborate the programs for the 2001-2005 period according
to the objectives and projects specified in Article 1 of this Decision
and submit them to the Prime Minister for approval within the second
quarter of 2001.
2.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall assume the prime responsibility
and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance, the concerned ministries
and branches in organizing the appraisal of the national target
programs specified in Article 1 of this Decision and submit them
to the Prime Minister for approval.
Article
3.- The mechanism of managing and administering the national
target programs
1.
Annually, the Prime Minister shall assign the ministries, the central
agencies and the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run
cities the norms on total fundings of the national target programs,
which comprise the capital construction funding and the public service
funding.
2.
The Prime Minister shall authorize the Minister of Planning and
Investment to assign the ministries, the central agencies and the
People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities the
norms guiding the annual objectives and tasks of each program.
3.
On that basis, the Ministry of Finance shall assign the detailed
estimates and directly allocate the fundings already balanced in
the annual central budget's spending estimate to the ministries
and central agencies for the performance of the tasks of the centrally-run
national target programs.
The
Ministry of Finance shall effect the targeted additional allocations
to the provinces and centrally-run cities according to the plan
on the allocation of the funding to the national target programs
to be implemented in their respective areas as arranged by the People's
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities.
4.
Annually, the agencies that manage the national target programs
shall draw up the plans and funding needs for the program implementation,
then send them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the
Ministry of Finance. On the basis of the total fundings expected
to be allocated to the programs, notified by the competent authorities,
the program-managing agencies shall make tentative plans on their
allocation to the ministries, central agencies and provinces and
centrally-run cities, send them to the Ministry of Planning and
Investment and the Ministry of Finance for consideration and synthesization
before submitting them to the Prime Minister for decision; the program-managing
agencies shall refrain from assigning plans and notifying fundings
of the programs to their subordinate specialized agencies in the
provinces and cities.
The program-managing agencies shall provide technical and professional
guidance and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in providing
guidance on the uniform spending norms for the ministries, central
agencies as well as the provinces and centrally-run cities so that
the latter can take initiative in the implementation thereof; direct,
urge, supervise and evaluate the situation on the program implementation.
5.
The presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run
cities shall be tasked to deploy the implementation of the national
target programs in their respective localities; take initiative
in integrating the programs, arranging the funding and planning
the allocation thereof to each specific program; mobilize additional
capital sources according to regulations for the implementation
of the programs; make and send annual and quarterly reports on the
program implementation to the program-managing agencies, the Ministry
of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance; and, at
the same time, take responsibility to the Government for the efficient
use of this funding source.
6.
For the former national target programs, as from 2001 their cost
estimates shall be included into the regular spending tasks according
to the corresponding domains of the ministries, central agencies
and localities. For the ministries and central agencies, grants
shall be directly allocated to them for program implementation;
for localities, grants shall be incorporated in the total additional
allocations from the central budget to the local budgets. (Particularly
for the tasks of expanding the radio broadcasting coverage as well
as the television broadcasting coverage in 2001, they shall be performed
according to the mechanism stated in the Prime Minister's Decision
No. 146/2000/QD-TTg of December 22, 2000).
Article
4.- This Decision takes effect as from the date of its signing.
Article
5.- The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies,
the heads of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents
of the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities
shall have to implement this Decision.-
Prime
Minister
(Signed and sealed)
PHAN VAN KHAI
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