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THE
PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
143/2001/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, September 27, 2001
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DECISION
APPROVING THE
NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM ON HUNGER ELIMINATION, POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND
EMPLOYMENT IN THE 2001-2005 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Prime Ministers Decision No. 71/2001/QD-TTg of May 4, 2001 on
the national target programs in the 2001-2005 period;
At the proposals of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and
the Minister of Planning and Investment,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the
national target program on hunger elimination, poverty alleviation and
employment in the 2001-2005 period with the following contents:
I. THE PROGRAM’S OBJECTIVES
1. Overall objectives:
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2. Specific objectives:
a/ Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation:
- To reduce the percentage of poor households
(according to new criteria) to below 10%, or 1.5-2% per year on average (about
280,000 - 300,000 households/year); to stop relapse into chronic hunger;
- Poor communes have adequate essential
infrastructures (small irrigation, schools, medical stations, public roads,
electricity, daily-life water, markets).
b/ Job creation:
- To create jobs for 1.4-1.5 million people each
year;
- To reduce the unemployment rate in urban areas
to below 6% and increase the use rate of working time in rural areas to 80% by
2005.
II. THE PROGRAM’S CONTENTS
1. Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation: including
the following policies and projects:
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b/ Projects in direct support of hunger
elimination and poverty alleviation, including:
- The group of general hunger elimination and
poverty alleviation projects:
+ The credit project on lending capital to poor
households for production and business development;
+ The project on guiding the poor in ways of
earning a living, promoting agriculture, forestry and fishery;
+ The project on building hunger elimination and
poverty alleviation models in special areas (coastal areas, highland and border
areas, islands, former resistance bases, deep-lying areas in the Mekong River delta).
- The group of hunger elimination and poverty
alleviation projects for poor communes (with 25% or more poor households and
inadequate essential infrastructures), not covered by Program 135:
+ The project on building essential
infrastructures in poor communes (small irrigation, schools, medical stations,
civil roads, electricity, daily-life water, markets);
+ The project on supporting production and
development of production and business lines in poor communes;
+ The project on training and fostering
personnel for the hunger elimination and poverty alleviation work and officials
for poor communes;
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+ The project on sedentary farming and residence
in poor communes.
2. Employment:
a/ Activities aiming to develop employment shall
be carried out along three following directions:
- Socio-economic development for stabilizing
jobs for people who have already had jobs and creating new jobs by
concentrating efforts on directing a number of key economic development
programs, thus creating more jobs;
- Stepping up the export of labor and experts;
- Enhancing the activities in direct support of
job creation and labor market development.
b/ Activities in direct support of job creation
and labor market development shall be carried out with the following projects:
- The project on organizing the lending of
capital under mini-projects for job creation through the National Employment
Support Fund;
- The project on raising the capacity of and
modernizing the employment service centers;
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- The project on training and fostering
personnel for the work of labor and employment management.
III. IMPLEMENTATION DURATION
The national target program on hunger
elimination, poverty alleviation and employment shall be implemented for 5
years (2001-2005).
IV. THE PROGRAM’S FINANCE
The program’s mobilized capital sources are
estimated at about VND 22,580 billion, including the following sources:
a/ Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation:
About VND 16,245 billion is anticipated to be
mobilized (not yet covering the international cooperation capital sources for
hunger elimination and poverty alleviation), including the following capital
sources:
- Central budget;
- Local budgets;
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- Credit capital (around VND 10,000 billion);
- Integrated capital.
b/ Employment:
The expected capital is around VND 6,335
billion, including the following capital sources:
- Central budget;
- Local budgets;
- Retrieved capital (around VND 4,600 - 4,700
billion);
- Other sources.
Annually, the Ministry of Planning and
Investment and the Ministry of Finance shall base themselves on the objectives,
contents and current regulations to allocate funding to ensure that the program
operates according to set objectives and efficiently.
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The national target program on hunger
elimination, poverty alleviation and employment shall operate according to the
inter-branch mechanism. The concerned ministries and branches responsibilities
shall be assigned as follows:
1. The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
Social Affairs shall assume the prime responsibility in managing the program,
regularly assist the Government in organizing, managing, administering and
coordinating activities with the ministries, branches and localities and
synthesize the program implementation situation; study and elaborate policies
on social security and support for the poor in terms of accommodation; assume
the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development, the Committee for Ethnicities and Mountainous Areas, the
Ministry of Health, the State Bank of Vietnam, the relevant ministries and
branches and the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities
in managing and organizing the implementation of the following projects:
- The project on training and fostering
personnel for the hunger elimination and poverty alleviation work and officials
for poor communes;
- The project on building hunger elimination and
poverty alleviation models in particular areas;
- The project on organizing the lending of
capital under mini-projects for job creation through the National Employment
Support Fund;
- The project on raising the capacity of and
modernizing the employment service centers;
- The project on labor survey and statistics and
building a labor market information system;
- The project on training and fostering
personnel for the work of labor and employment management.
2. The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall
have to assume the prime responsibility for:
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- Coordination with the Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs and the concerned ministries and branches in
guiding localities to integrate other programs relating to the national target
program on hunger elimination, poverty alleviation and employment in the same
locality, from the planning to the implementation direction.
3. The Ministry of Finance shall have to assume
the prime responsibility for:
- Coordination with the Ministry of Planning and
Investment in proportioning and ensuring State budget allocated annually for
the program in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law;
- Guiding the financial management mechanism
applicable to the capital sources mobilized for the program;
- Directing and organizing the full and timely
capital allocation strictly according to the estimates and objectives already
approved;
- Studying and proposing measures to exempt
agricultural land use tax for poor households.
4. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall assume the prime responsibility for studying to elaborate
policies in support of poor people in terms of working tools and production
land; coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs,
the Ministry of Aquatic Resources, the National Committee for Population and
Family Planning, the concerned ministries, branches and localities in managing
and organizing the implementation of the following projects:
- The project on building essential
infrastructure in poor communes;
- The project on support for production and
development of production and business lines in poor communes;
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- The project on stabilizing the life of free
migrants and building new economic zones in poor communes;
- The project on sedentary farming and residence
in poor communes.
5. The State Bank of Vietnam shall 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 on lending capital to poor households for production and
business development.
6. The Ministry of Health shall assume the prime
responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
Social Affairs, the concerned ministries, branches and localities in studying,
elaborating and implementing the policy on medical examination and treatment
for the poor.
7. The Ministry of Education and Training shall
assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries
and branches in studying, elaborating and implementing the policy on supporting
the poor in education through the integration and implementation of the
national target program on education and training.
8. The Committee for Ethnicities and Mountainous
Areas shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned
ministries and branches in managing and organizing the implementation of the
hunger elimination, poverty alleviation and employment projects in areas
inhabited by ethnic minority people.
9. The National Committee for Population and
Family Planning shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in managing and organizing the
implementation of projects on stabilizing the life of migrants and building new
economic zones in poor communes.
10. The ministries, the ministerial-level
agencies and the agencies attached to the Government shall have to study
and elaborate the policy on supporting the poor, poor households and poor
communes, and direct the implementation of the hunger elimination, poverty
alleviation and employment program within the scope of their respective
management.
11. The People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities shall organize the elaboration and implementation of the
contents of the national target program on hunger elimination, poverty
alleviation and employment in localities; periodically report to the Prime
Minister and the program-managing bodies on the program implementation
situation.
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Article 2.- To establish
the Management Board of the national target program on hunger elimination,
poverty alleviation and employment, which shall assist the Prime Minister in
deploying the program implementation.
The program’s Management Board shall have to
coordinate with the Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front and mass
organizations in organizing and implementing the program.
Article 3.- This Decision
takes effect 15 days after its signing.
Article 4.- 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
Phan Van Khai